Posted on 07/14/2012 6:14:40 AM PDT by marktwain
I made my first fully operational hand gun while I was in junior high school. I carried that weapon on my person every where I went for a long time.
That “zip gun” was in addition to my 22 caliber squirrel gun and my Winchester Model 37 - 12 gauge shot gun with a 30 inch barrel, full choke. My Dad used to say you could place a dime on the end of that gun’s barrel and it would not fall into the barrel. It was murder on my shoulder.
My favorite gun was that homemade zip gun—because I made it.
My point is—firearms are not that difficult to make—in your very own garage.
Just for the heck of it, I had an Internet search engine look up sites for homemade guns and it returned no less that 2,510,000 sites dealing with that topic. Yeah, I WAS overwhelmed. I had expected a few thousand, but 2-1/2 million???
OK. So what’s REALLY the point, you ask? Well, since you insist—the REAL point is—there is no way the government, or anyone else, will ever disarm America. Ain’t gonna happen.
Firearms are just too easily made with regular old home workshop tools. Heck, I found a site that offered plans for a homemade machine gun made with off-the-shelf parts assembled with ordinary home workshop tools! (If we had had computers back in the 40’s and 50s I’d have had one of those!)
I’m bringing all this to your attention to point how utterly stupid it is for the United Nations and the gun-grabbers in the US government—and any other government—to believe they can control small arms and the manufacture and trade in same. It cannot be done. Not anymore.
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
I'll paraphrase something I heard a while back:
In case of a tyrannical government, my guns are not intended to take on the enemy soldiers. I'm not going to defeat the army with a handgun. They are intended to allow me to capture the weapons of my enemy. They will get me the weapons of the soldier who is bored and inattentive, or sleeping, or follows a pretty girl into a dark alley. Then I'll take on the army with its own weapons...
The same holds true for ammo...
It would probably also be possible to get small enough pieces of metal sufficiently hot atop a normal gas or, with difficulty, even electric stove. The point of a purpose built blacksmith furnace is that it does the job more efficiently and uniformly with less mess than a converted grill or the like.
Guided munitions need works that, obviously, are shock resistant. Doing it is possible. Doing it economically is another question.
Story about the Arms Trade Treaty - Megan Kelly interviews Larry Pratt and KT Macfarland:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1719546416001/
Petition to Rand Paul about the Arms Trade Treaty:
http://www.nagr.org/UN_lp_survey2.aspx?pid=key21&gclid=CNX9rdrGmbECFcldTAodfEUwlg
Gunowners of America:
http://gunowners.org/
It’s close. I got a chrome lined barrel and used a Rock River lower receiver.
Kit was from M&A Parts. I’d use them again.
Gas piston is an excellent choice.
It is much harder than it appears. I spent my career in Army R&D. There are an amazingly large number of ways for things to go wrong. The rest of the world's governments would love to be able to duplicate our "smart" weapons. They have not done it yet... I presume they will at some point... it is *not* easy.
I am looking bigger, literally.
Kinda difficult to go head to head with a government thats been invaded by a foreign interest and has better equipment.
My thought would be equipment readily available to build something that either launches weapons or a home brew long range rocket.
Any guess what would happen if a person used one of those punkin chuckers but instead was tossing containers of white phosphorus? Or building a redneck SCUD missile?
I took machine shop for a college course.
The more I think about it America may try to become like a Mad Max/ Road warrior society. So if anything its your vehicle that needs offensive weaponry.
Equipment for extruding brass is not simple nor common as you suggest.
Nor is making smokeless powder.
I think the real point is that if you always depend on the next fall back position, you run out of ground fast.
Put another way, if you wait until they come to get your gun to use it, you’ve waited way to long to use it.
Is there any doubt that were the government able to confiscate all the guns that criminals would find a way to manufacture them since it’s a very old technology anyway?..... ping
I had a real education today. I stopped into a local gun shop, run by a retired vet who has training with the Vegas PD, and is an instructor for local LEO’s.
He stocks both factory loads and reloads of specific calibers, mainly .38, .308 and .40 for reloads; factory loads for everything else. He explained to me that .22LR can be reloaded, but there’s a point of diminishing returns on labor and investment. He strongly recommended buying bricks of factory load .22LR and be done with it.
On the subject of .22’s, I saw the Ruger .22 handgun with a retrofit red-dot sight that I might get for my girls, an AR-7 rifle for plinking, and for The Bride, a Mossberg .22 short-stock. All can draw off the same ammo pool.
Of course, my baby will most likely be a Mossberg 500 Zombie...
Seems logical if you have the equipment.
I believe it was in Afghanistan when they were fighting the Ruskies.
Most of the work was being done by kids.
From what I remember they looked like CZ’s.
Weren't bad looking even the cheapest ones. They were somewhere around $25. Cheap to us, but a hell of a lot for Afghanistan.
I started reloading this year....also got a furnace though I do not intend on casting my own bullets unless absolutely necessary.
Thats an interesting concept, America becoming like Afghanistan except all Americans become a quasi-Taliban.
Worthy of discussion at the least.
Freepers are so damn smart, thanks for the info.
Do a search for “FP-45 Liberator”...
WWII cheap, simple, single shot pistol, mostly stamped parts. Shipped to Nazi-occupied Europe, with 10 rounds and wood dowel for removing spent cases, designed for partisans to kill an occupier at close range and take his weapons...
A good lesson for dealing with UN pukes if it ever comes to that...
Anyone foolish enough to believe the American people can be totally disarmed would also believe basement workshop guns couldn’t be made in numbers...
UN Delenda Est!
Do a search for “FP-45 Liberator”...
WWII cheap, simple, single shot pistol, mostly stamped parts. Shipped to Nazi-occupied Europe, with 10 rounds and wood dowel for removing spent cases, designed for partisans to kill an occupier at close range and take his weapons...
A good lesson for dealing with UN pukes if it ever comes to that...
Anyone foolish enough to believe the American people can be totally disarmed would also believe basement workshop guns couldn’t be made in numbers...
I am going to ask a couple of dumb questions.
If I bought this upper receiver kit and this lower receiver, would I have everything I needed to assemble an AR-15?
How hard is it, once you have all the parts?
Perhaps you've overlooked the fact that the technology to make gunpowder preceded the technology to make firearms.
12th century China invented firearms after they invented gunpowder in the 9th century.
America has enough Chinese people today to repeat the progress.
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