[marktwain]

Guns are 15th Century technology. It is something that disarmists refuse to acknowledge. The gun genie can not be put back in the bottle. People manage to make clandestine guns in totalitarian states and in prison.

[hadaclueonce]

They go after the ammo.

[thackney]

Murder rates are driven by culture, not weaponry.

BTTT

[Gaffer]

There is no indication that the murderer was prohibited from purchasing firearms.

Then why the interest in a self-made/finished gun?

[Chainmail]

It's funny but almost no one understands history. In Europe, the kings/nobles retained power by making the possession of arms a crime punishable by death - so the peasantry learned how to use hunting weapons like the bow to defend themselves.

In Asia, the overlords had even tougher restrictions, so the peasantry developed the martial arts to use their hands and their feet as lethal weapons and developed ways of using common agricultural implements as effective weapons.

We had an initial influx of Europeans who were escaping feudal tyranny and the first thing our ancestors did was arm up. This was improved vastly when Eli Whitney developed the mass production of common parts - which reduced costs - simultaneously with Colt's multishot revolver. A personal arms revolution coinciding with expansion West and the further refinement of individual independence.

Do the Leftists really believe that they can successfully overturn our freedom?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

See this handmade made pistol at the bottom. It was made INSIDE a California prison back in the 1960s.

Even the ammo cases are handmade.

[Organic Panic]

While consulting for a company in Chandigargh India, we could not buy seamless steel tubing without registering it through the federal government. Apparently it “could” be used to make a gun.

[Oatka]

The "ghost gun" used in the murder/suicide in California was built with off the shelf parts, an 80% receiver, and a fair amount of machining.

On the other hand. (As the article stated later on.)