If you live in a free state, you can buy a complete 80% frame Glock 17 parts kit in one single box, which contains all genuine Glock pieces with the exception of the non-serialized 80% frame and the jig. It even comes with a Glock case. (Reason magazine has an article that shows how their reporters/writers build this.) It costs about $100 more than a genuine Glock 17 -- but that isn't the point, is it? The beauty of the Glock 17 kit is that it takes less expensive and less sophisticated tools to complete it because it's made from polymer, not steel or aluminum. I'm a John Moses Browning fan but if I lived in a free state and wanted to build one, that's what I'd look for.
I think this battle was lost by the gun grabbers quite a few years ago. The only reasons I can think that the gun grabbers are focusing on "undetectable" guns (dangerous to the user and outlawed eons ago) now is that they don't understand how firearms work or maybe they do but they are deliberately lying.
“maybe they do but they are deliberately lying.“
They’re lying.
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My guess is Browning would be intrigued with the Glocks etc.
I have the book “J.M.Browning, American Gunmaker”. He gave FN the rights to make his first little .32 auto. It was a runaway success selling literally in the millions.
One of the FN Engineers figured out a way to simplify the manufacture without hurting the gun. The superiors at FN told him not to change a thing from the way Browning had designed it.
When Browning found out, he thought it was amusing. The change really would have made it easier to machine and really would not have hurt the gun.
Browning was willing to learn.