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Doctor charged with manufacturing gun bullets

Friday, 23 May 2008

TSU -- A doctor accused of illegally possessing guns has been slapped with a new charge of manufacturing bullets without permission, law enforcers said.

Mie Prefectural Police have sent to the Tsu District Public Prosecutors Office additional papers accusing Kenji Abo, 58, a doctor from Tsu, of violating the Ordnance Manufacturing Law.

"I wanted to make (bullets) by myself," Abo was quoted as telling police as he admitted to the charges.

Abo had earlier been indicted on charges of violating the Firearms and Swords Control Law after he was found in possession of 18 guns and 1,000 bullets at is home. Abo had been commissioned by local police for 15 years to conduct autopsies on victims of crimes or accidents.

Abo manufactured 58 bullets at his home sometime around Jan. 26 without obtaining permission from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, according to investigators. The .45-caliber bullets were capable to be fired from the two U.S.-made automatic handguns that were confiscated from his home.

When investigators told Abo that the bullets he made turned out to be capable of being fired during a police examination, he reportedly responded in a delightful manner, saying, "I knew they were practical."

Abo reportedly produced the bullets at his home in 2000 after purchasing cartridges and warheads from a gun dealer in Tokyo and gunpowder and detonating caps from a gun dealer in Mie Prefecture.

Police have also found 385 additional hand-made bullets from his home, but the statute of limitations on the case has apparently expired.

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