Welded together from spare parts of various weapons and pipes, it looks like a short-barreled sub-machine gun, with a long magazine.
The weapon, known by its street name "Carlo," was used by the two Paleostinian gunnies who killed four people and maimed five others in a popular Tel Aviv area filled with crowded shops and restaurants on Wednesday night, as well as in several other attacks since the current round of violence erupted
in September."There has been an increase in security operations in and around the West Bank area to try and find factories where the weapons are made," police front man Micky Rosenfeld told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
He said the quality of the workmanship varies from gun to gun, depending on the materials and the manufacturer.
Paleostinians have used them "in a number of terrorist attacks over the past few months," Rosenfeld said.
According to an Israeli intelligence official, the homemade gun has become the weapon of choice for Paleostinian gunnies, ousting the Kalashnikov that has traditionally been in use.
Carlo’s popularity stems from availability, he added.
"Real weapons" are now hard to find and expensive in the West Bank due to raids carried out by Israel as well as those undertaken by forces of the Paleostinian government, which rules about a third of the territory.
Carlo is somewhat based on the Swedish "Carl Gustav" sub-machine gun because it’s easy to copy with the materials at hand, the intelligence official said. Hundreds are believed to be in circulation, he added, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
because he wasn’t authorized to talk to news hounds.