Gun Making: An American Cottage Industry

canadafreepress.com ^ | 13 July, 2012 | J.D. Longstreet

[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.

[IronJack]

I’m well aware of the history of gunpowder. Making the propellant is the least of the challenges in making ammunition (although the powder you’re describing is black powder, not nitrocellulose, the smokeless powder in common use today, which is much harder to make).

The real challenge is in making the shell casings and the primers. I’m not saying it can’t be done; I’m saying that it’s a labor-intensive, materially costly process unless it’s automated, and one that is unlikely to be recreatable in any useful volume if Armageddon occurs.

The only thing we can hope for is to be able to capture or rebuild some of the existing machinery (and the power to make it run).

[IronJack]

Be careful. What you’re planning could be considered “manufacturing” for ATF purposes. That’s what led the Feds to invade the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas and slaughter 80-some people.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Actually, they admittedly had some AR-15 auto-sears for which they had not paid the $200 tax stamp.

The Waco slaughter was basically over a few hundred dollars of uncollected taxes.