Posted on 12/20/2020 6:20:42 AM PST by AggregateThreat
$100 semi auto 9mm
$300 for a Beretta 9mm knockoff
Lots of hand finishing going on, looks like they start with raw castings and file each part to fit.
Have to question the reliability, materials, heat treatment etc.
“Don’t try this at home.”
If it shoots 10 times it is a lot better then nothing.
Before I ever fired this weapon I would replace the barrel/breech with an OEM one.
Only watching a little of the video, bu that is probably Miram Shah, which was also the center-point for the bomb production for the Taliban. You can get pretty much any kind of weapon there and they were the prime suppliers for the Taliban, Uzbeks under Tohir Yuldeshev.
The tribal areas where this is ongoing have treaty to be left alone, in their gun making. They managed to get a barrel making machine after WWII. It requires electricity.
Recently,in the last few years, much of their production has been reduced, because Pakistan has stopped allowing them to steal electricity.
Many of the skilled gun-makers are Indian, and have returned to India.
The level of skill of Indian black market gun makers has increased dramatically.
Indian gun-makers have access to plenty of electricity, but, they don't have recognized safe areas to make guns without being raided, as exist in the tribal areas in Pakistan, and on the Afghan/Pakistan border.
The latest estimate is about 2.5 million black market guns being made in India each year.
Obtaining replacement parts will be a bitch.
That’s a remarkable bio WB Army. Thank you for your service to America.
May God bless your work in Africa.
We love President Trump, but only revival will save the USA.
Fascinating........I wonder if they will be offering an after Christmas sale on their firearms..
The problem with the Viet Cong was that they were being supplied from areas we were not allowed to target.
The problem with the Taliban is that they are supplied, and provided with sanctuary, by Pakistan and Iran.
Obviously no one has ever bothered to teach them how to make a CHAIR and a WORKBENCH.
Watched through a few of this guy’s videos. Neat stuff
He began doing this as a result of being given a 1911 knock-off that had a bad case of stove-piping.
He could cure the stove-piping, but while looking at the pistol, he was amazed that it had gone through more than 50 rounds without falling apart.
Magnaflux showed so many cracks in the slide that he said it looked like a map of the US Interstate system.
Amazingly, it contained a spring kit from Wolf and a Springfield match barrel.
The rest of it was, in his assessment, cold-forged and hand filed.
He pointed out the tool marks in the mag well and inside the slide and figured it was most likely of Paki origin, not even up to Phillipine ghost-gun standards.
He has since done a Glock and several Beretta 92's.
Mostly junk, all, but surprisingly with some aftermarket high dollar parts thrown in.
But he never doubts the fact that they are capable of killing, and killing more than once.
That crap abounds in the Sand Box (and a lot of other places) and it usually reflects the environment it originated in.
He once showed me how to take a piece of cold-rolled steel, available at any big-box supply house, and turn it into a reasonable facsimile of a 1911 slide.
Needing much work of course, but a start and not out of the capability of someone with determination and a modicum of skill, equipped with files and cutting equipment.
The one's I saw from the Viet Minh were not even finished on the outside, but inside were good enough to function, at least once.
And that's all it takes.
Anyone that has spent time in the Sand Box and the Asian countries Have seen much of this type of "engineering".
I must say, they are true craftsman. However the only way I’d ever own one is if given to me and it would never be fired for safety reasons.
The makeup of the metal alloys, the quality of the castings and the tolerances of all that filing scares me.
Where is this Sand Box? Asking for a friend.
It would be random luck if an OEM part would work on any of those knock off copies. One tool I did not see them using was calipers. The fitting was by hand, a little filing here, a little grinding there, hand dies.
There is a set, under the hacksaw in the cabinet behind the guy.
This is probably Dara, Pakistan. I first read about them in a 1955(iirc) issue of The American Rifleman. Foot-powered lathes, files, hacksaws, and considerable attention to detail. Heat treatment? Dream on, buddy!
Still, a fascinating place. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Dara%2C+Pakistan&t=brave&ia=web
So after the guns are outlawed here, they’re going after hacksaws and files. They’ve been after 3D printers for a while now.
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