seldomseen
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Last night I rented the movie "Munich". It's a Steven Spielberg movie about the Israeli's retaliation for the massacre of their athletes at the Munich Olympic games in 72. Any of us that are old enough probably remember at least some aspects of that incident. During one particular scene in the movie, the assassins set out to kill a prostitute who had killed one of their agents. In this scene they rode up to her place, which appeared to be a houseboat, on bicycles. They each had a silver cylinder hanging horizontally beneath the main cross frame of their bicycles. They looked to be maybe 10" long and an inch in diameter. Looked very similar to a small bicycle air pump hanging there. Into the house they go, and after a small amount of dialogue with the girl, they each pull these cylinders out and start twisting them much like you would with a flashlight. Then two of them point these cylinders at her and pound once on the back of the cylinder with their palm of their hand to make it fire. At first I thought they were shooting darts at her. No loud bang like you would expect from a gun. I suppose they could have had silencers inside the cylinders. Both shots hit her, one in the base of the throat and the other in the upper chest. Shots left what appeared to be two very small red marks on her. She initially showed no real damage from these two wounds, but within 30 seconds or so, she sat down and started bleeding profusely from one of the wounds. At that point the third assassin uses his weapon on her as she is seated and hits her in the head and kills her instantly. My question is, was that just Hollywood hype, or do weapons like that really exist? I watched it a couple of times. It didn't hurt that she had dropped the top of her robe down to expose her breasts, but honestly, I wanted to see the guns they used again. If that is in fact what they were. Anyone see the movie? Any idea what they were using?
