Strange conjecture: Brian Thompson's murder may have been a contract killing [View all]

The New York City Police Department, after careful analysis of the surveillance footage, believes the assassin used a B&T Station Six pistol to kill Brian Thompson.

https://www.capitolarmory.com/bt-station-six-9mm-suppressed-pistol-bt410111.html

https://abcnews.go.com/US/police-piece-unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-suspects-escape-route/story?id=116475329

What to know about this gun: It is modeled after the "Welrod" pistol issued to British secret agents in World War II. It is magazine fed but you have to cycle the action by hand after every shot. If you buy one, which you probably aren't planning on because they're over $2000 apiece, you have to undergo a federal investigation which takes up to two months due to the silencer it comes with.

So...who would buy such a thing? People with a very serious love of the history of covert operations, people who love unusual firearms...and people who murder people for hire. I can go to Cabela's any day of the week and walk out the door in less than an hour with an automatic pistol from any of the famous brands to include the notoriously-overpriced Heckler & Koch for a third of what the B&T Station Six costs, and have a better pistol for anything except whacking people in the middle of Manhattan.

ABC is reporting that the killer stayed in the HI New York City hostel. They have surveillance footage of him checking in. It's on the corner of 104th St. and Amsterdam Avenue.

So, let's follow this guy's footsteps for a bit. He would have left the hostel and walked over to Central Park West, where he would have boarded either the B or D train. He rode to the 7th Avenue station, which is on 53d Street. One block up and one block east is where he killed Thompson. Go back to the station - remember, the pictures they have shown of him make it clear he's just an ordinary-looking guy and in New York people walk around at all hours - then he jumped back on the B train, rode to the 86th Street Station, jumped over the Central Park perimeter wall, grabbed the bike he had cached in there and was seen riding it near 84th Street just before 7 am.

Even if they find this guy - and he's definitely an out-of-towner; HI New York requires an out-of-NYC ID to check in - it's going to be hell solving this because they also have to find whoever hired him.