Posted on 04/25/2018 8:30:48 AM PDT by Simon Green
Photos have emerged of an underground gun factory which operated in Montreal, Canada to produce high quality copies of the TEC-9 / DC-10 submachine gun for the criminal market. This model of illicit craft produced machine pistol was previously documented having appeared seized in several police operations.
The factory was discovered by accident after a burglar alarm altered police to the warehouse of the company located in LaSalle borough. Vice-president of Perfection Metal, Pierre Larivière, 60 and Jean-Pierre Huot, 59 are facing charges relating to the 2014 find. Employees at the factory were apparently told that they were manufacturing parts for paintball guns.
An easily recognizable feature of these guns is that unlike the original molded polymer lower receiver of the TEC-9 / DC-10, copies were produced using two CNC-machined halves bolted together for ease of construction:
Disassembled components of the gun revealing two-piece ‘clam shell’ construction of lower receiver.
Above is an example previously seized by police during a drug operation in Toronto in 2016.
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Was thinking it might be fun just to plink at the range, but the ergonomics aren't great, the reciever is prone to cracking if you have a hand on the mag, which would be a fairly instinctive way to grab the thing so I assume any you look at has been mishandled by numerous other people before you get it, and it jams crazy. No fun.
Looks like high quality manufacturing.
Where there is a will there’s a way.
That is why we need to outlaw machine tools.
Used TEC-9 prices still aren’t that high because so many were produced in the ‘90s. You can get one for a fairly good price, still. They aren’t “illicit” in the US, either. I don’t understand what, other than them being illegal in the socialist paradise that is Canada, would be the advantage of running a WHOLE FACTORY to produce them would be unless they’re being shipped overseas. They are not in demand among US customers, even the ones in gangs, who can get a better, more modern weapon.
Chuck is a big time liberal dim so he is exempt from everything.
You don’t need a CNC machine to do anything LEGAL! //sarc
Anyone remember back in 1968 when an unlicensed sub machine gun manufacturer in SO Cal was raided? Most never heard of it as the newspapers and TV were covering the Bobby Kennedy murder.
It appears the guns were being shipped to South America, and rumor had it that President Johnson had his hand in the pie.
Then there are all those newsreels of underground Norsemen hand making full auto sub machine guns to kill Nazis in WWII.
“WOW! This is too much fun for the peasants to have!”
You can make all the guns you want.
The problem is, where are you going to get the bullets?
In a Constitutional USA this factory would be unremarkable, not newsworthy and not a target of any police action.
Develpp reliable plastic casings and an commonlyly available substitute for primers and you have it. This sort of thing should be top priority for gunsmiths and reloaders who have the resources for experimentation.I don’t know much of anything about ammo but can some form of rimfire bu used tor, say,5.56 or .303?
Seems to me that 3D printers are already capable of producing guns. So much for gun bans.
Good for the Canadians! Anything which gets more guns on the street beyond the control of authorities who want to deprive their people of the right to self defense is a good thing.
Every nation in the world needs dozens of illegal gun factories, because the right to have a weapon is a basic and fundamental human right, and governments which oppose it are siding with evil.
Get the bullets on the same street corners where you can buy heroin now.
Nor would the equipment in people’s basements and garages.
You can make those too in hand lots. The equipment is out there and not too expensive if you want to make your own. I’m not talking about casting bullets either.
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