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thewinnie parent
Why did he reload every shot? Is it self made pistol? My best guess that insurance haven't paid his enough to buy glock17
TrackerFF
A bit technical:

Automatic and semi-automatic weapons work the way the do because force of the round (recoil) pushes back the bolt carrier, which a spring will then push forward again. Shot is fired, bolt carrier goes back, spring pushes it forward.

Subsonic ammunition have less charge than regular ammunition, to reduce the velocity. This also means less recoil. Combined with the spring now being too stiff, the bolt carrier will simply not move back far enough to successfully chamber a new round. So you have to manually chamber a new round between each shot. One solution is to use a light / less stiff spring that is adjusted to the force of the subsonic ammo.

Same principle for when shooting blanks.

Clubber
He also could have not been using a Nielsen device.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzzle_booster#Modern

Molitor5901
Perhaps subsonic rounds that did not have enough charge to drive the slide. It looks like there may be a suppression device on the end. My first thought was home made.
Molitor5901
Just an interesting note. Some in the media have suggested the weapon used is a B&T Station Six, a bolt action pistol. I had no idea such a thing existed. Reviewing the footage again I don't know if it is that model. The hand movement appears more chambering that cycling a bolt.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/police-piece-unitedhealthcare-ceo-...

igetspam
Or it could just be a single action pistol, as noted in the article. They’re not common but there are a handful of them that are relatively easy to obtain. Competitive shooters use them and it seems that Seals are sometimes issued single action pistols too.
sergiotapia
not a gun dude, but I read that it is common when using "subsonic rounds" for quieter shots.
jerlam
All of this seems to indicate this was a hired professional and not someone merely angry at their health insurance benefits.
throwaway48476
'hired professionals' are always FBI agents. This guy didn't even do a test firing.
brokenmachine
What does this mean? How do you know he didn't test before?
throwaway48476
If he knew what he was doing he'd use a lighter spring.
brokenmachine
Sometimes you need to use what you have on hand. He seemed quite prepared to manually cycle the pistol.

You may question his methods, but you can't question his effectiveness.

Zigurd
Or someone highly motivated to make the hit a work of art. Killers are usually not very smart, or they are blinded by rage, and they make mistakes and are sloppy and incomplete about planning.

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