I am minded to think that this weapon could have been the gun to which DS Davidson was referring to, when he spoke to COLP during interviews in 1991, when he said a paint sample (RC/1) was taken from the scene on 8th August 1985, because of some paint that had been found on the end of a guns barrel, a gun which had been found downstairs? It remains possible that the gun in question with paint on the end of its barrel was the one handed over to BUNTING, and that police handed this gun back to the relatives, or simply left it at the scene for the relatives to collect, and that later once a decision was taken to scratch the underside of the kitchen mantelpiece with the silencer, the relatives got rid of the double barreled gun by handing it to BUNTING, so that it could not be associated with the attack on Ralph?
If true, one can then start to see why no photographs of the circular marks found on Ralph's back have ever been published, and also why there exists a big secret over the original paint sample (RC/1) being taken, and because the double barreled weapon that was handed over to BUNTING was originally found at the scene on the morning of the shootings, with paint on the end of its barrel?
a great deal could rest on the dimensions of the two barrels of this weapon, and whether or not they can be matched to the circular burn marks on Ralph Bambers back?