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Sports pistols are a thing with serious competition shooters, especially Commonwealth Games and Olympic competing. I would suggest that there's quite a few in that cadre.
One of my uncles was once into sports shooting. He had a specialist rifle for sharpshooting. It wasn't short to go hunting rabbits with, but if such a sharpshooting pistol as the one I posted about was to be stolen, I'd imagine a hitman would pay a lot to a fence to get their hand's upon such a specialist weapon.
And I imagine to kids fishing something like that out of the river, that they'd describe it as a sawn-off rifle with the butt missing if they'd never seen such a gun before.
Ballistics match?
In that era, how many of these .22 Anshutz rifles would exist in the tiny town of Perth? The .22 was a common round carried by very senior police of the day.
It wasn't a left-hander?
Don't say the evidence disappeared.
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