Why? To get the message out to other Brits that they can build their own guns and tell their would-be masters to GF themselves.
Or why show off a device you made that you found didn’t work in testing and then try again in you neighbor’s bedroom?
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.
Man, by that standard I must be an even worse criminal than Slobodan Milosevic in their eyes. Maybe even like Mao Tse-Tung.
Good thing I don't live there, or any place where possession of a bottle of Scotch gets you 100 lashes across the back with an oiled steel cable.
70 years ago you were making these to send to Europe to help people defend themselves from Nazis:
Now your own people have to make these to protect themselves from criminals - at the risk of being jailed by their own police forces:
Did you know there's a phoenix comet in the southern sky?
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?
He Larched forward brandishing an Elm-1....
I suspect they're happy all my ancestors left.
BUAIDH NO BAS!!
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.