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I'm no gun expert, but this doesn't sound special or advanced. Just seems like basic research and planning after checking how previous assassinations have failed. From what I've seen there are plenty of suggestions it was amateur but reasonably-well planned.
I've heard that the silencer may have had an impact on the bolt returning properly. If so he may have been aware of this already as he very quickly dealt with the stoppage.
He practised, is what I'm suggesting.
Probably not the silencer but the use of subsonic ammo.
it could be the combination of the two. suppressors commonly induce failures to eject in tilting barrel designs without the use of a nielson device, and if he had used subsonics, that would also be a contributing factor to a failure to eject.
The thing that makes this potentially professional isn’t the gun use but the intel needed to find this guy at the right place and time. The killer either had inside info or had been surveilling him for a while.