[Paine in the Neck]

"Every engineering workshop around the country that use shaping metal in their trade will have a lathe like this one. It's used to to manipulate metal, make it rounded.

"It would also be used to create the slots for bullets in the cylinder of an older, traditional handgun and would be used to form the barrel of a gun.

"The milling machine - the machine on the right - would be used to very accurately create grooves on the outside of the gun.

We can't have people going around making grooves and slots and manipulating metal. Ban lathes! Ban milling machines!

[Jed Eckert]

We can't have people going around making grooves and slots and manipulating metal. Ban lathes! Ban milling machines!

The late Philip Luty demonstrated that safe, workable firearms could be constructed of common materials available at plumbing and hardware stores. No lathes or mills required. The Brit authorities ended up arresting him over it.

Luty's website: The Home Gunsmith