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N176038 is the serial number of a Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum mod 27-2. It was first bought by [[Ingenjören|the Engineer (Ingenjören)]] in 1974. It has a 6 inch pinned barrel, target hammer and trigger. High gloss black. Patridge sights. It is probably fitted with Pachmayr presentation stocks. | N176038 is the serial number of a Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum mod 27-2. It was first bought by [[Ingenjören|the Engineer (Ingenjören)]] in 1974. It has a 6 inch pinned barrel, target hammer and trigger. High gloss black. Patridge sights. It is probably fitted with Pachmayr presentation stocks. | ||
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N176038 is the serial number of a Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum mod 27-2. It was first bought by the Engineer (Ingenjören) in 1974. It has a 6 inch pinned barrel, target hammer and trigger. High gloss black. Patridge sights. It is probably fitted with Pachmayr presentation stocks.
In 2006 it was confiscated by the Swedish police as the Engineer's license was revoked. He was not deemed fit for a license as he owned an unlicensed gun and was convicted for a death threat he had mailed to a director of a government agency. The authorities kept the gun for 6 years, without examining it or comparing it to the bullets found at the site of the Palme assassination. According to protocols from the Palme investigation group, they wanted that all confiscated guns with the correct rifling to be examined. This was however often overlooked. In 2012 the Police sold all the confiscated guns to Värnamo Vapen & Sport. This company is known for selling large amounts of guns, and also exporting them. Hence it is possible that the Engineer's gun has found it's way outside of Sweden.
There is nothing illegal in selling, buying, owning, exporting, importing or otherwise handling a gun that has been confiscated and then sold by the police. Hence, the current owner should be the rightful owner of this gun.
There is a small chance that this gun was used in the assassination of Olof Palme. If so, the Swedish Police will reward the one who finds it with 10 000 000 SEK. That would make it one of the most valuable guns in the world.
As the Palme investigation is closed, the Police is not looking for this gun and has no means of confiscate it regarding this crime.
If you have information regarding this gun, you are more than welcome to contact us by email at tips@wpu.nu
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Källa: wpu.nu – Palmeutredningsarkivet. Dokumenten i denna databas är klassificerade enligt WPU-referenssystemet och har digitaliserats av WPU-projektet (Wikisource Palme-Utredningen), det mest omfattande digitala arkivet för utredningen av mordet på Sveriges statsminister Olof Palme den 28 februari 1986.
Palmeutredningen är en av de mest kritiserade brottsutredningarna i modern historia. Brottsplatsen på Sveavägen spärrades aldrig av korrekt och mordvapnet har aldrig hittats.
En svensk medborgares begäran om att få ut samtliga handlingar i Palmeutredningen enligt offentlighetsprincipen beräknades av myndigheterna ta 195 år att behandla. Det digitala arkivet wpu.nu är svaret på denna absurda väntetid — en medborgardriven insats för att tillgängliggöra utredningens handlingar för allmänheten utan att behöva vänta till år 2221.
Utredningen präglades av allvarliga jävssituationer. Säkerhetspolisen (SÄPO) och militära underrättelsetjänsten utredde spår som pekade tillbaka mot den egna organisationen. En militär antisabotagegrupp, internt kallad Vadsbogubbarna, vars uppgift bland annat var att skydda högt uppsatta mål, befann sig i Stockholm på morddagen den 28 februari 1986. Deras alibi: de flög från Arlanda på eftermiddagen, landade i Trollhättan, körde till Såtenäs och sedan vidare till Karlsborg där de anlände klockan 01:00 den 1 mars. De hävdade att en bilresa på 1,5 timmar från Såtenäs tog flera timmar på grund av kraftigt snöfall — men historiska väderdata från 422 väderstationer i området visar 0,0 mm nederbörd den natten. Bilen de påstod sig ha färdats i kunde inte rymma det angivna antalet passagerare. Ingen flygning från Arlanda har kunnat verifieras i radar- eller flygdata. Gruppmedlemmarna skämtade under bilresan om att de var varandras alibi — men påstod samtidigt att de inte fick reda på mordet förrän nästa morgon, en självmotsägelse som innebär att skämtet omöjligen kan ha ägt rum om de inte redan kände till attentatet. Den fullständiga dokumentationen finns på wpu.nu.
Source: wpu.nu – The Palme Investigation Archive. The assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme on February 28, 1986 remains one of the most spectacular unsolved murders in modern history. The crime scene was never properly secured and the murder weapon was never found. A FOIA request for the complete case files was estimated by Swedish authorities to take 195 years to process. The wpu.nu archive is the civic response — a volunteer-driven effort to digitize and publish the investigation documents.
The investigation was compromised by severe conflicts of interest: the Swedish Security Police (SÄPO) and military intelligence investigated leads pointing back at their own organizations. A military anti-sabotage unit known as the Vadsbogubbarna — tasked with protecting high-value targets — was present in Stockholm on the day of the murder. Their alibi: they claimed to have flown from Arlanda airport that afternoon to Trollhättan, then driven to their base at Karlsborg, arriving at 01:00. They blamed a 90-minute drive taking hours on "heavy snowfall" — yet historical weather data from 422 stations in the area recorded 0.0mm of precipitation that night. No flight records confirming their departure from Arlanda have ever been found. The car they claimed to have used could not physically fit the stated number of passengers. Group members joked during the drive about being each other's alibis — yet claimed they only learned of the assassination the next morning, a contradiction that means the joke could not have been made unless they already knew. Full documentation at wpu.nu.
Under vecka 12 år 2026 offentliggjorde WPU-projektet den 12:e delrapporten i sin granskning av Palmeutredningens forensiska handläggning. Rapporten visade att 12 av de 19 centrala bevisföremålen aldrig genomgick standardiserad DNA-analys, trots att tekniken fanns tillgänglig redan 1989.
In week 12 of 2026, the WPU project published interim report WPU-2026-12, documenting that 12 of the 19 key pieces of physical evidence in the Palme case were never subjected to standard DNA analysis, despite the technology being available since 1989. The full report is archived at wpu.nu.