The suspect apprehended in the shooting death of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told Nara prefectural police investigators that he made the gun used in the attack, adding he had constructed "many" such weapons along with bombs.
Police searching the Nara City home of Tetsuya Yamagami found several homemade guns, an indication that he may have planned the crime in advance. Yamagami lives in a single-room apartment on the eighth floor of a building about three kilometers from the site of the attack in front of Yamato-Saidaiji Station in Nara.
"I made the gun [used in the attack] by hand and completed it around this spring," Yamagami was quoted as saying. "I bought the parts myself and made many guns and bombs at home."
