Things to know about the Israeli IWI Tavor weapon that killed Ifeanyi Okereke, the Abuja vendor
By Guardian Exclusive
30 November 2020 |
2:09 pm
Here is what we know about the Israeli IWI Tavor weapon which is the known, favoured ammunition of the DSS that killed Ifeanyi Okereke, the Abuja vendor.
In this article
- Abuja
- air
- ammunition
- battlefield
- bullpup rifles
- convoy
- designed
- DSS
- durability
- Federal House of Representatives
- Federal Secretariat
- Femi Gbajabiamila
- fire system
- IDF
- Ifeanyi Okereke
- Israel Weapon Industries
- Israeli infantry
- Isreali
- M16 assault rifle
- M4 carbine variants
- Maintenance
- Micro Tavor
- MTAR
- National Hospital
- NATO caliber weapon
- Newspaper vendor
- Police officers
- reliability
- rifles
- Security
- shot
- simplicity of design
- speaker
- standard-issued weapon
- TAR-21
- Tavor
- Tavor 7
- Tavor family
- Tavor weapon
- Tavor X95
- vendors
- X95
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