The FN SLR .308 Rifle
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Details That Point to a Coverup At Port Arthur
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More unanswered questions arise from the FN SLR .308 rifle found at Seascape after the fire. This is the gun alleged to have been used by Byrant to kill the people after his rampage the Broad Arrow Cafe - in the car park, on his way back to Seascape, and at Seascape.
This gun, unlike the COLT, was alleged to have been found in a gutter near an outbuilding in smashed condition. It too was recovered with parts missing from it that were never recovered from Seascape.
This gun had suffered loss of internal parts and the barrel had been bent.
You can see below in the black and white picture the gun after it had been cleaned up ( Source: Australian Federal Police Journal Dec 1998 ).
What is unexplained is how could the barrel of this rifle have been bent ? How, when and why would Bryant have done this ( given the barrel steel of this rifle is extremely hard ) ?
Assuming it was found there why were parts missing and why were they also not found amongst the ashes ? How could it have been through the fire and not have suffered burns ?
Why would Bryant have left it in a gutter if he wanted a shootout with police as he had indicated the previous night ?.
Was the barrel bent by the real gunman to make it difficult to do a ballistics match later ?
Furthermore Martin Bryant at his police interrogation in July 1996 when showed this gun denied it was his yet admitted another gun ( a Daewoo Shotgun ) shown to him found in his Volvo was his. Another unexplained irregularity.
Again it is unknown whether police have matched bullets from this gun to any of the shooting victims.
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