School Murders in California Done with Homemade Gun

AmmoLand ^ | 24 November, 2019 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Shortly after the murders at the Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California, just north of Los Angeles, the news coverage faltered and died away.

I and others speculated something in the facts about the case did not fit the current media narrative in the push to further infringe on Second Amendment rights. California has some of the most restrictive laws on gun ownership, sale, possession, and carry in the United States.

A clue to the lack of coverage: the police did not announce the model or make of gun. It was not an AR15, as that would have been useful to the infringement narrative.

Those thoughts were verified today as Los Angeles County Sheriff Villanueva released the information the .45 semi-automatic pistol was homemade. From foxnews.com:

Ghost guns are a growing problem for law enforcement. The parts are relatively easy to obtain and the guns do not take much expertise to build. So even though California has some of the strictest gun laws in the country, they are only based on traditional firearms made by manufacturers where ownership can easily be traced.

In Southern California, one-third of all firearms seized are ghost guns.

“Congress and state legislatures enact all these crimes about gun registration but now the gun industry is creating a way to just bypass the entire thing by creating a mechanism to manufacture weapons yourself,” Villanueva said.

People have been making their own guns for hundreds of years. It has always been legal to make your own gun in the United States. For there to be a functional right to keep and bear arms in the United States, there has to be a right to access arms. One of the most fundamental rights to access is the right to make your own.

[marktwain]

The right to make your own gun has always been a part of Second Amendment rights in the United States.

[riverrunner]

This was never even thought of a problem
for most of our history.

[Vendome]

“Ghost guns are a growing problem for law enforcement”

Puhleeze, save me from myself..

[rarestia]

I find the concept of a “ghost gun” to be disingenuous. Ghosts are disembodied spirits of people who have gone on to the next life. Wouldn’t that mean that guns would have to die in order to be reincarnated?

[Vendome]

Cynic...

[snoringbear]

I suspected it was some sort of 1911 when I heard the details of the shooting. Lots of 1911 parts floating around. 3-D technology will make manufacture of such, others easy.

[Savage Beast]

"School Murders in California Done with Homemade Gun"

You don't say!

BAN EVERYTHING!My children and I watch eagerly to see what the morons will come up next. Some of my favorites: "Math is racist!" and "Ban drive-in windows to save the planet!"

Note tagline.

[exDemMom]

Congress and state legislatures enact all these crimes about gun registration but now the gun industry is creating a way to just bypass the entire thing by creating a mechanism to manufacture weapons yourself,” Villanueva said.

Nice try to blame the problem on gun industry greed, but where is the profit in people making their own firearms?

In any case, the cause of mass murders is not the weapons. It is the person committing the crime. Addressing the criminals, not the weapons, is the only way to control such crimes.

[rawcatslyentist]

“Ghost guns are a growing problem for law enforcement”

What's the problem? Are they too stupid or lazy to make their own anymore or, that they don't have to keep throw downs on them?

[Sooth2222]

“Congress and state legislatures enact all these crimes about gun registration but now the gun industry is creating a way to just bypass the entire thing by creating a mechanism to manufacture weapons yourself,” Villanueva said.

"Now"? He should try to name some of the US firearm manufacturers that existed in 1776.

Since 2016 all completed firearms in California have been required to have a serial number. It's already against the law there.

The 80% Glock frames aren't made by Glock.

He is an idiot. And a Democrat. But I repeat myself.

[dblshot]

Brings a whole new meaning to, “Johnny are you doing your homework?” “Yes ma.”

[The Great RJ]

During WW-II Philippine guerillas used crude slam fire shotguns made out of metal tubing with a rough wooden stock and using a nail as a firing pin. These were turned out in jungle workshops with only rudimentary tools. After the war a more refined version was made and sold in the US.

[Hugh the Scot]

It’s very telling that the article doesn’t mention the criminal, only the tool the criminal used.

[marktwain]

Richardson Industries M5 Guerrilla Gun

[CIB-173RDABN]

Home made “guns” are nothing new.

In the 1950s the big worry was teenage gangs making “zip” guns. Do a google search.

The world did not come to an end.

At the time you could order guns by mail, or go to most hardware stores or even some department stores. Guns were easily available.

Mass shootings were rare.

You do not solve societal problems by restricting constitutional rights.

[marktwain]

You do not solve societal problems by restricting constitutional rights.

No, but the government and its agents can accrue considerable power and money by doing so.

[facedown]

No, but the government and its agents can accrue considerable power and money by doing so.

Which is, no matter how they start out, what government always does.

[Sooth2222]

U.S. Army Improvised Munitions Handbook.

$11.65 from Amazon.

Or available FREE as a download courtesy of the US Gov't. (THANK YOU, Diane Feinstein!) Not only does it show you how to build a firearm from readily available components, it (or one of the others in the series) shows you how to build a tank trap with a backhoe.

[bgill]

Much the same with live edge wooden tables. Duh, the slab of wood is dead. Too many words today have had their meanings turned 180 degrees.

[StormEye]

Lathes, drill presses and other machine shop tools
to be controlled by or outright banned by
the government. Soon you'll have to apply to some
government stooge for a license to own a set of
screwdrivers. It's for the children you know.