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Improvised/Craft firearms

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This is why gun bans and confiscation will never accomplish much of anything in the United States.
We have a **** ton of very skilled machinists and toolmakers who know how to do this kind of work, and any kind of a ban or any kind of confiscation would just wind up creating even more, with the eventual result being something like 40% of the population learning how to be gunsmiths at least at a rudimentary level...and about ten percent (MORE THAN ENOUGH) hitting commercial grade quality in short order.

Guns, even sophisticated ones, are still a fairly basic invention, there's little to nothing to prevent most of the reverse engineering.
Even an idiot like me, (and trust me...where this stuff is concerned, I am a total moron), can build a basic "bang stick" gun that functions.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
This is why gun bans and confiscation will never accomplish much of anything in the United States.
We have a **** ton of very skilled machinists and toolmakers who know how to do this kind of work, and any kind of a ban or any kind of confiscation would just wind up creating even more, with the eventual result being something like 40% of the population learning how to be gunsmiths at least at a rudimentary level...and about ten percent (MORE THAN ENOUGH) hitting commercial grade quality in short order.

Guns, even sophisticated ones, are still a fairly basic invention, there's little to nothing to prevent most of the reverse engineering.
Even an idiot like me, (and trust me...where this stuff is concerned, I am a total moron), can build a basic "bang stick" gun that functions.
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Hell. There are MORE illicit guns in Australia then there were before the ban.
 
Bum said:
Home made 45's in the Philippines; very good copy made with hand tools in the jungle by farmers.....an entire underground industry is turning these out.

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Same as in the jungles of South America...eleven year old children of FARC rebels making fully functional semi-auto pistols.
I still can't remember the name of the film where I saw that, but I'll never forget seeing it.
 
Fledermaus said:
Hell. There are MORE illicit guns in Australia then there were before the ban.
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Doesn't surprise me in the least and it wouldn't surprise me if that happened here if there was ever a ban attempted.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
This is why gun bans and confiscation will never accomplish much of anything in the United States.
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No, the second amendment is why all gun controls are just half measures


We have a **** ton of very skilled machinists and toolmakers who know how to do this kind of work, and any kind of a ban or any kind of confiscation would just wind up creating even more, with the eventual result being something like 40% of the population learning how to be gunsmiths at least at a rudimentary level...and about ten percent (MORE THAN ENOUGH) hitting commercial grade quality in short order.
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But what they do is largely legal;
They won't do it if it's illegal (following a necessary repeal of the 2nd amendment of course), because if they do, they go to jail for a very long time


Guns, even sophisticated ones, are still a fairly basic invention, there's little to nothing to prevent most of the reverse engineering.
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The law and law enforcement.
 
Rich2018 said:
Home made gun "factories" would have to be clamped down hard upon.
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Rich2018 being Rich2018....

Asks questions. Ignores answers.

Cries about dictionary definitions. Then posts a dictionary definition.

Cries about "Rabbit Holing" that wasn't. While constantly rabbit holing.

Rather than respond to others he quotes himself....
 


Lots of examples...
 
swing_voter said:
I wonder if you could make a plastic flintlock? I'd think so. That way you wouldn't have a metal primer to set the detector off. Maybe you could even make a plastic primer?
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You would still have to have a piece of metal for the flint to create a spark.
 
VanceMack said:


Lots of examples...
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Heh....that takes me back a bit; the first time I fired the M3 at Fort Carson back in the 80's....it was s real chopper at close range.
 
Bum said:
Heh....that takes me back a bit; the first time I fired the M3 at Fort Carson back in the 80's....it was s real chopper at close range.
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Was it still on issue then ?

The British SMG (sub machine gun) remained on issue into the 1990's.
 
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