30% of Confiscated Firearms in California are Homemade

Ammoland ^ | 19 August, 2019 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

I have doubts about the 30% figure. The media outlets claim BATFE sources.

[ClearCase_guy]

I haven’t heard much lately on the 3-D printer front, but I would expect that such technology will mature rapidly, and then homemade guns will be very common indeed.

[BitWielder1]

Goes to show how additional gun laws will be completely ineffective.
Even before 3D printing, anybody with a half decent metal workshop could make a workable gun.

[Joe Boucher]

Easy to make,
Zip guns.
Look on how to make em on the web.

[Raycpa]

When I was 11 years old my fellow neighborhood kids got access to a fathers work bench and we made a rudimentary rifle. If 11 year olds without internet can make a gun how can access be controlled? Oh yes, one of my friends shot his toe off with our weapon.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

His toe! Well at least it was a success.

[TangoLimaSierra]

I have doubts about the 30% figure. The media outlets claim BATFE sources.

Yeah, they're probably also including people who buy AR lowers.

[Scrambler Bob]

They probably include pop-tarts, drawings of stick figures with guns, and kids pointing their fingers.

[thefactor]

The feds’ next step is to push for serial numbers on 80% lowers. Take that to the bank.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I have doubts about the 30% figure.

Me, too.

There is a continual deluge of negative unsubstantiated anti-gun "facts."

But back to the point of unregistered and unregister-able firearms... one of my boys suggested purchasing futures on 80% lowers, because they're likely to become the focus of some future media attack.

[Scrambler Bob]

This says 30% of Confiscated guns in Calif.

I’ll bet most 3-D and 80%ers are still in the hands of their creator (not the Creator).

So how does BATFE (feds) define a confiscated gun and confiscated by whom. Does this include guns taken by Calif LEO?

Or is this how many guns they wish they could confiscate.

If so, that number will double by tomorrow.

[Beagle8U]

A old car antenna will make a zip-gun with few tools and little effort.

[PROCON]

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[mylife]

Good old steel works.

[mylife]

LOL! poor bugger!

[Openurmind]

Could have had real... :)

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[marktwain]

Goes to show how additional gun laws will be completely ineffective. Even before 3D printing, anybody with a half decent metal workshop could make a workable gun.

Exactly. To have effective "gun control" you have to effectively control information, tools, most of society.

In effect, you have to have a totalitarian state.

Even then, people make their own, bribe officials, steal them from police...

[FLT-bird]

Yep. Efforts to constrain supply are about as successful as prohibition was.

It’s only getting easier to make guns.

[NonValueAdded]

Note it is 30% of the guns recovered, not 30% of the guns in the population. So it is 30% of the guns actively being used in crime which is easier to understand.

[Beagle8U]

Kids making a zip-gun don’t buy things they can get off a old car.