[Malone LaVeigh]

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.

[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.

[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.