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Oscar Pistorius Went To Shooting Range When He Couldn’t Sleep And Had ’96% Accuracy Over 300m’
15 Feb 2013 by Seth Rotherham in Athletics, Crime, Sport
An article in the New York Times, written a year ago, revealed Oscar Pistorius to be something of a gun enthusiast – often visiting the shooting range when he couldn’t sleep.
This, from the New York Times:
I asked what kind of gun he owned, which he seemed to take as an indication of my broader interest in firearms. I had to tell him I didn’t own any. “But you’ve shot one, right?” Actually, I hadn’t. Suddenly, I felt like one of those characters in a movie who must be schooled on how to be more manly.
“We should go to the range,” he said. He fetched his 9-millimeter handgun and two boxes of ammunition. We got back in the car and drove to a nearby firing range, where he instructed me on proper technique. Pistorius was a good coach. A couple of my shots got close to the bull’s-eye, which delighted him. “Maybe you should do this more,” he said. “If you practiced, I think you could be pretty deadly.” I asked him how often he came to the range. “Just sometimes when I can’t sleep,” he said.
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His obsession with guns was further compounded in a recent DailyMaverick article:
Pistorius, on his Twitter account, boasted of his shooting prowess in November 2011, writing that he had spent the afternoon at the shooting range. “96% headshot over 300m from 50 shots! Bam!” Pistorius tweeted. The athlete, Sokolove concluded, had the disposition “of a person who believes himself to be royalty of a certain kind – a prince of the physical world.”
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All past Oscar Pistorius posts and build up of this murder charge can be found HERE.
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