 Item number SCP-1040-RU Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures SCP-1040 is to be stored in the arsenal sector in a separate weapons cabinet. The cabinet must be guarded around the clock by two armed security officers. Access to the facility is allowed only with the written permission of Dr. Theamant, and under conscious supervision of at least one employee of level 4 clearance. SCP-1040 should be charged only with blank cartridges, since firing it with live cartridges will damage the built-in nozzle. Description SCP-1040 is a modified Draganov sniper rifle. Changes made to the original design are as follows. The nozzle is made of glass, ceramics, and metal. Its principal operation is unknown, and extraction is impossible. The optical sight has been replaced with one of unknown origin and model. Normal objects viewed through the sight are visible but colored in blue, except for those that have been hit by SCP-1040, which are visible in red. The normal factory mark has been replaced by the writing, made by the lefty. According to the instructions found, SCP-1040 spoils or damages anyone who is shot with a blank cartridge. After shooting with the use of the sight, the user can observe a red dot moving at a great speed towards the target. After such stain collides with a creature or object, its color in the sight changes to red. Without a sight, no visible effects are observed. Any living creature affected by SCP-1040 dies within 24 hours, usually as a result of an accident, but sometimes under certain circumstances from a heart attack or stroke. Any inanimate object, including the terrain, surrounding the place of the spot's collision with the subject will become ill-fated for about 48 hours. In their proximity, unpleasant accidents occur regularly, such as the fall of small objects, etc., as time passes the less severe the effect. Addendum 1 These are the instructions for the object usage found during its recovery. Almost everyone knows someone that they want to kill. You too? Well, why wouldn't you? Oh, you don't want to go to jail. Well, what if everything happened as if by itself? Charge this thing with a blank cartridge, aim and pull the trigger, and well, all will happen by itself. With love, lefty. Addendum 2 The object was seized from the contract killer. At first he fell into the hands of law enforcement agencies, but then he became interested in the Foundation's employees. The object was confiscated and a fire was staged in the warehouse of the cover. Addendum 3 Excerpt from the experiments with SCP-1040 The subject was released in the center of the city, died, fell into the sewers hatch. Released in the city center, died when bricks fell over him. Released in the city center, hit by a car. Placed in a protected cell, died as a result of the collapse of the ceiling. Placed in a protected cell, death from a stroke. Taken out of the city, death from the bite of a poisonous snake. Placed in the cold weapons deposit. Comment, someone will answer for this, Dr. Theamant. Impact in the door's threshold, a total of five stumbled two blows in the door jam, one crushed finger, one broken phone. Effects on the service pistol, two spontaneous shots, three misfires. Impact on the vending machine, did not issue the goods for rubles, issued the wrong goods three times, worked four times without returning change.