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"The killing of the Congressman at the airstrip had all the earmarks of a professional military hit. How do we know? The eyewitness journalists who wrote of the assassination described it as "silent, calm, brutal, carefully planned and mercilessly executed’" by well-trained killers.
Shooting a rifle is very easy, and shooting someone at 30 feet is even easier. If they were on an airstrip, you wouldn't need to get nearly so close if you had shot a rifle before. The fact that the pilot and co-pilots escaped indicates that they were either let go (why?) or this was sloppy and botched. And why would they make noise? Shotguns at 30 feet are pretty basic. Jackie Speier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier) was shot 5 times and lived to tell about it (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/16/...). Someone wanted her dead enough to shoot her at close range, but didn't know how to do it properly. I'm going with Occum's Razor on this one.