Posted on 05/12/2017 6:53:43 AM PDT by marktwain
Carlo Style Submachine gun found after attack on Israeli Car in January, 2017 |
In many places around the world, where firearms are very difficult to obtain legally, small shops manufacture simple submachine guns for the black market.
They are common in Brazil, Israel, the Philippines, and increasingly in Australia, Canada, and even the United States, where submachine guns are highly regulated. In Israel, the Israeli Defense Forces have turned their attention from the private owners of black market guns to the small shops that produce them. The crackdown started in 2016. From timesofisrael.com:
Save for members of the Palestinian security services, it is illegal for Palestinians to own guns of any kind. In its crackdown, the army has focused on the sources of weapons manufacturing workshops and gun dealers, instead of individual owners.
To that end, in the first quarter of 2017 the army shuttered 20 suspected gun-making workshops and seized about 150 guns, putting it on track to far surpass its numbers from last year. In 2016, the army closed 44 workshops and confiscated approximately 450 weapons.
In 2015, we didnt close a single workshop and we seized 170 weapons that entire year, the officer said.
For most owners of Carlos, this is not much of an issue. The gun is not meant to be used for hunting, where its inaccuracy would be a significant problem or in operational situations where a malfunction could be catastrophic. These kinds of guns are instead used for things like home protection, petty crime and celebratory gunfire at weddings.Apparently, illegal guns are quite common among Israeli Arabs. From jpost.com:
The problem is when these guns end up in the hands of those who want to carry out terror attacks, as they increasingly have in the past two years, the officer said.
According to 2015 police figures, 59 percent of murders in the country take place in the Arab sector even though Arab-Israelis only make up 21% of the population. While the countrys Arab sector has long been saturated with illegal firearms, the issue of unlicensed guns reached a new level of national attention when Nashat Milhem went on a shooting spree in central Tel Aviv last January.Two sources quoting that black market submachine guns are common in the Israeli Arab sector, where they generally are not much of a problem.
Less than 10k will get you a cnc milling machine. $5,000 you can build a wood CNC that can be converted to either 3D printer or cnc. Plans exist to build your own if money is really tight.
Where there is a will, there is a way. Governments may be able to push firearms manufacturing under ground, but it will not be able to stop gun manufacturing
Anybody with a Bridgeport and a lathe can make a barrel cam broach.
Ironically some of the world's very best metalworking cutting tools and technologies are now made by the Israelis.
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