Once they found their target, they all died the second they moved to pull the trigger. They didn’t die just from aiming at him. If the sniper was given a defective rifle that didn’t actually work, even if they intended to kill him, pulling the trigger didn’t result in any harm coming to them. If they intentionally shot and missed, they didn’t die either. If the rifle was rigged so that when they tried to shoot something else, they would shoot the target instead, even if they had no intention of killing him, they still died.

-Volume 4 page 32