Posted on 06/03/2021 7:31:18 AM PDT by PROCON
Banner photo: Mike Newbert via Facebook.
As part of a middle school project, an enterprising young man embarked on a journey to handcraft his own stainless steel shotgun-- and succeeded.
After the local paper apparently turned up its nose to the youth's accomplishment, one of his family members took to social media on Wednesday to boast of the young man's homebuilt shotgun, which looks to be a clone of an old-school H&R/NEF break action single shot model. Within hours, the post was shared and liked over 2,000 times, with some 200-- overwhelmingly positive-- comments logged.
This is Hunter Newbert and for his 8th-grade project, he wanted to build a stainless steel 20-gauge shotgun from scratch. He made the barrel from a used stainless steel boat shaft, the receiver from a scrap piece of stainless steel, the stocks from some cherry wood that was in a woodpile that was going to be used for firewood. He put many hours in learning how to and machining his own shotgun and we are very proud of him and by the way, it does fire and works properly. Great job, Hunter.~~~
A time-honored American tradition that pre-dates the nation, there is currently no license required under federal law to make a firearm for personal use.
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That won't be the case for long once the dems get wind of that oversight.
Require government permission to make your own gun.
Not sure if the comment period is open on the proposed regulation.
I made a single shot 45 caliber smooth bore pistol in my sophomore year of high school, of course that was 1966 and we still had a school rifle team.
The pistol was my metal shop project, I got a B for the project, teacher said if I had rifled it I would have got an A.
Will his next project be an EFP? Or maybe some other defense novelty.
Delightful post!
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