hey guys was wondering which weapons are used most in hits. seems like a lot of silenced .22 pistols as well as .38 snub-nosed revolvers. also you see in movies a lot of piano wire,was wondering if this is based on fact or is just overly dramatic for the movies. you also see/have seen alot of bombs used in italy but more sparingly in the us. discuss.

"Throw away Glock" as Tupac would rap. Also 'The Sopranos' gave this to be true, though more often than not probably a Saturday-Nigh special .38 Snub

Don't know which is their weapon of preference in America, but in Italy their traditional weapon was initially the sawn-off shotgun and later the Kalashnikov machine gun.
What I don't understand is why the Italian and Italian-American mafia rarely uses sniper rifles, like for example the Russian mafia does. When they killed prosecutors and judges in the 80s and 90s in Italy, they preferred to blow them up with all the bodyguards using bombs instead of quietly do it with a single shot.

nick rizzuto jr was killed with a sniper rifle i believe.

revolvers are usually preferred in hits...they don't jam

nor do they expell those pesky casings which can be finger printed.

nick rizzuto jr was killed with a sniper rifle i believe. [/quote]

I think Scarfo had a guy killed by sniper while the dude was pumpin' gas. Lenny Strollo in Pittsburgh had a guy sniped.

I think Scarfo had a guy killed by sniper while the dude was pumpin' gas. Lenny Strollo in Pittsburgh had a guy sniped. [/quote]

You sure you're not think of the consigliere of his the Riccobenes sniped?

the old style garrote is very effective..

sawn off shotgun.. 38 snub for back up..you can't go wrong ..

yes... hasta la vista baby!

A well placed .38 will send any man straight to hell.
I think the good old .38 revolver was the main choice from 1950's through to the 1980's

definitely a .22, preferably silenced. A .22 will do the most damage at close rang because there will be no exit wound, the bullet will fragment and do the most damage to the brain. 2 behind the ear and you can't lose.

it was a show of their strenght they wanted terrorize the italians, the government, that's because they used this tactic it was a corleonesi's way, those times are ended now
they could kill the prosecutors some years before in rome with a rifle, they did it because riina ordered so

ask john veasey about that....

I think Scarfo had a guy killed by sniper while the dude was pumpin' gas. Lenny Strollo in Pittsburgh had a guy sniped. [/quote]

It was Rizzuto Sr who got sniped and Frank Monte , Scarfo's consiglieri was killed by Joe Pedulla and Vic Deluca of the Riccobene faction by what could be considered a snipe shot(s)

Depends on the circumstance. If the hit man can get very close to the victim, a .22 revolver is the best. It's not a self-defense weapon (not enough stopping power). But it's small, concealable, relatively quiet and doesn't eject spent rounds. If the shooter can get close enough to put several rounds in the victim's brain, it's perfect. You saw Joe Pesci do this to a woman in "Casino."

But, for general protection against other mobsters, and to threaten them, they need a bigger, higher caliber gun.

Crossbow..

Philly is the exception, those knuckle heads can't do anything right. lol

veasey was rather lucky no ... plus his heads like a fucking slab no wonder it didn't kill him ... if the asshole had a .38 it woulda been "bye bye john" for real .. still gotta give him credit though even after he got shot he got outta there

A nail gun. You can just nail people with it really easy.

Lethal Weapon 2?

No, nail weapon 3.

Aah .

The victim there was Joey Naples, one of the two made guys (the other being Lenine Strollo) who controlled Youngstown. I'm told (but I can't confirm) that his killing was actually ordered by Michael Genovese for refusing to kick up, not Strollo as is commonly believed, with the actual shooting said to have been done by Robert Poghen. The sniper picked off Naples while he was overseeing work on a new mansion out in the woods in Pennsylvania that he was having built with his ill-gotten gains.

Damn Ivan, you know your Pittsburgh shit. Thanks for the info.

In anyways a hunting rifle may be the best thing to do hits with; great distance between shooter and target, you can get a positive ID on the target if you're using a scope and the hit can be done in a wide array of options.

yeah u can test it out on unknowing citizens just like the iceman lol

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The Luccheses family's Jersey crew used golf clubs pretty well on Vincent Craparotta.