Further Exploring the Unabomber Connection To Luigi Mangione
the ghost gun in the Unabomber's hideaway he also described in his jounral
Well this is interesting. There's a YouTube video that popped up in my feed which posted a month ago titled "Testing Ted Kaczynski's Personal Pistol". It seems The Unabomber had a homemade 22-caliber handgun he constructed from the barrel of a mail-order air gun and random car parts that were abandoned near his Montana shack hideaway.
Here’s a functioning reproduction of it from the video:
Again, this video is listed as posting a month ago, well before Luigi Mangione's "alledged" shooting with a home-made ghost sidearm of his own. The point is, although this video appeared too late for Mangione to be inspired by it to build his own gun, the information in the video was out there. Kaczynski wrote at length about his pistol, it's construction, and that he wanted "to use the gun as a homicide weapon." We also know about Mangione's association with the Unibomber, since he wrote a four-star review of Kaczynski's Manifesto online at Goodreads. Mangione was exceptionally smart and well-read and who's to say at this point how deep this association went or how much inspiration he drew from uncle Ted. After all, the Unabomber Manifesto review was positive but only earned 4 stars from Mangione, not 5. Clearly he believed improvement was possible. It's all another fascinating wrinkle. #ceokilling #unitedhealthcare #domesticterrorism #luigimangione #uncleted #unibomber #freeluigi
At bottom is the link to the Unabomber homemade pistol YouTube video on the channel for Brandon Herrera.
Appearantly, the ghost gun constructed by Luigi Mangione was far less crude.
Luigi Mangione's home-made ghost gun, partially built through the use of a 3D printer, was identified once two days ago I believe in an early report from the surveillance video of the Thompson shooting as looking like a possible "zip gun". Later they started saying it appeared to possibly be a type of pistol used in farms to dispatch livestock. Now that Mangione has been caught and his gun found, there's no mention of it being a zip gun. The term "Zip" was once considered a kind of slur against newcomer Italian gangsters in the early twentieth-century, and it was used by other natural-born gangsters of Italian descent. See below. From Wikipedia: "Zips (also Siggies or Geeps) is a slang term in the United States that was especially in use in the early 20th century. It was often used as a derogatory slur by Italian American and Sicilian American mobsters in reference to newer immigrant Sicilian and Italian mafiosi. The mobsters in the US were said to have difficulty understanding the Sicilian dialects of the new immigrants, in which words appeared to "zip" by. Other theories include pejorative uses, such as Sicilians' preference for homemade zip guns. According to another theory, the term is a contraction of a Sicilian slang term for "hicks" or "primitives". The older Sicilian mafiosi of the pre-Prohibition era, known as "Mustache Petes", were also referred to as "zips". They were deposed by American-born mobsters during the Castellammarese War."
Yesterday New York charged Mangione with multiple crimes, among them murder in the first AND second degree, as well as terrorism. So it looks like a declaration of war has been made by both sides in this issue of unaffordable for-profit healthcare in our country.
Pictured below is the reported ghost gun found in the backpack of Luigi Mangione when he was arrested in Altoona. #omerta