He’s the man with the wooden gun

Mail online ^ | 4th January 2012 | Richard Hartley-parkinson

[Charlespg]

A man used his DIY expertise to make his own gun using a fence post and a children's building set.

Trevor Cracknell, 48, went to a neighbour's house in Macclesfield, Cheshire, and fired the gun which had a steel barrel encased inside a wooden casing.

The mechanism was held together with nuts, bolts and metal strips from a Meccano-style toy set.

[Mycroft Holmes]

[JoeFromSidney]

This illustrates an argument I’ve made in the past to gun grabbers. Firearms technology has been around a long time. A crude, but effective gun can be manufactured from materials readily available at any hardware store, as well as other, more deadly weapons.

This book describes how to make a 9mm submachine gun entirely out of parts you can buy in a hardware store. The book includes drawings and specifications:

Luty, P. A., Expedient Homemade Firearms: The 9mm Submachine Gun, Boulder, CO, Paladin Press, 1998.

The result will definitely be better than the zip gun the guy in the article made. It's been tested.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

It sure doesn't take much to get their knickers in a knot over there!

I suspect they're happy all my ancestors left.

BUAIDH NO BAS!!

[Talisker]

The FP-45 Liberator was made by the US, not the UK.

Didn't know that, thanks.

I still stand by my premise, though - that Britain embraced the concept of the gun, and enabled its deployment all over Europe, at risk to its own forces.

Those days are long gone.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

A crude, but effective gun can be manufactured from materials readily available at any hardware store, as well as other, more deadly weapons.

Here are some made in a US prison about 50 years ago.

[Calvin Locke]

The Thompson was mostly machined, and expensive by the war. $200 sticks in my mind. For the war, the drum magazine capability was eliminated.

One show said that after each British Commando raid on Norway, the armorers come in to collect the Thompsons ahead of the medical personnel.

I think the only machined part in the M3 "grease gun" was the bolt. It was also field convertible to fire the German 9mm MP40 ammo.

Back in the day, early 1970s, my (8th grade?) class took a tour of the FBI building in DC. An agent fired off a drum on the Thompson, and handed out the spent casings as souvenirs. Yes, they had an enclosed/soundproofed/bullet proof glassed firing range in the building to show off.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Zip guns are easy to make-—anyone can do it with a little bit of creativity. Same with a very lethal Crossbow or rubber band powered slingshot gun. Black powder also can be used to make a rather large single shot weapon. History can be very informative about such things.

[marktwain]

I made several homemade, muzzleloading, electrically fired, small pistols in the early 80’s to make this point. I wrote an article titled “the ultimate liberator” and submitted it for publication. The magazine that I submitted it to folded before the article was published.

My best effort was a four shot .45 caliber pistol that took 12 dollars of hardware store materials and 12 hours to build. I could fire four shots in five seconds and hit a man sized target at five yards.

Guns are 15th century technology, and we have much better tools to make them with today.

[TheOldLady]

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[SunkenCiv]

This is an old topic. Just adding to the catalog.