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Originally Posted by 911pcars
Nice. Thanks. I do recall he went into the case to do something with the rifle. One more. At that point, what tipped off Clooney the assassin was going to kill him, or was that the point of sabotaging the rifle?
BTW, other than the silencer he fabricated, what was so special about the rifle? It looked like a mini Ruger 14 (or equivalent) and he just went about assembling it rather than fabricating a "to order" assassination weapon as requested.
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In his profession, paranoia is king. Without it you would not last long. The entire movie was Clooney's ability to sort the bad guys from the good (to his point of view). Remember throwing the cell phone away?
The only thing special about the Ruger was the sectioned barrel (to shorten the entire package) and the sound suppressor (not a silencer).
It is not rational to reinvent the wheel each time if a modified wheel will perform as required. That is why, it is just a modified production rifle.
The biggest technical error was the wound caused by the sabotaged rifle. The women is injured in the eye-socket. There is no simple undetectable way to accomplish that wound in that location. What they probably wanted to portray is the type of wound from a burst cartridge case. On the Ruger all one would have to do, is block the barrel just in front of the chamber, then drill a hole on the back of the receiver, modify the cartridge cases supplied to the shooter to weaken them in the extraction grove and instant high pressure, high temperature gas discharge to the face. A highly painful and a heavy bleeding wound at an instant. Not necessarily fatal by any means, but would easily stop that person and weapon combination from causing any harm to others.