Posted on 02/01/2009 7:21:00 AM PST by marktwain
A submachine-gun seized during a gang house raid in Winnipeg's North End last week is unlike anything a police firearms expert has seen locally before.
What makes the gun so unique -- and troubling, police say -- is the way it was cobbled together.
"It looks like a hybrid or amalgam of gun parts," said police Det. Const. Rob Duttchen, a member of the National Weapons Enforcement Support Team.
SHOTGUNS STOLEN
Possibly homemade, the submachine-gun and five sawed-off shotguns, along with ammunition, were seized at a house in the 400-block of Manitoba Avenue on Jan. 7, police said.
Three males, aged 17, 27 and 28, are facing almost 120 charges.
Two of the shotguns were stolen during a break-and-enter in the District 6 area, Duttchen said.
The submachine-gun was loaded when it was found, said police spokesman Const. Jason Michalyshen.
It has parts consistent with those of a Second World War-era Sten and M-16 assault rifle, said Duttchen.
A certain level of expertise and knowledge would be required to make such a gun, he said.
Duttchen said the gun will be sent to a lab in Ottawa for examination as part of an investigation into its origin.
Police showed the firearms to reporters yesterday, along with an assortment of drugs and a 9-mm handgun seized during a separate bust Saturday afternoon in the 800-block of McCalman Avenue.
"We've got a significant amount of firepower here," Michalyshen said.
HOLLOWED-OUT BOOKS
The handgun was loaded at the time of the bust, he said.
Two of the more unusual items were hollowed-out books used to hide about $9,000 in cash, police said.
Officers also seized 31.5 ounces of cocaine, 17 ounces of marijuana, eight Percocet tablets, two grams of hashish oil and 3.2 ounces of the cutting agent benzocaine.
Police said the drugs allegedly belonged to a mid-level dealer.
Police said Marc William McIntosh, 29, is facing several drug- and weapon-related charges. He is in custody.
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4.) The boss is an a$$hole
5.) Don’t bite your fingernails. Eeeeeew!
6.) payday is Friday.
Darn it to the pits of Heck!
Too slow!
Ah. Then you'd enjoy my post #71.
Another interesting book is ZIPS, PIPES, AND PENS by Truby published by Palladin Press. It is loaded with various zip guns.
Then there is WEAPONS OF THE AMERICAN UNDERGROUND with aricles on home made sub machine guns.
In the 1980's there was a magazine FIREPOWER, which built and tested many of these machines. That is when LICENSED NEW machine guns were still legal to buy.
This is my last photo.
Yessir'e gun control works, doesn't it!
Is this the one?
Thanks to both of you guys, especially Ruy Dias de Bivar for his 6 replies and the in depth answers he gave. I appreciate both of you answering. Very few people know about the guns made in Prisons, due mainly to the MSM hushing up any article that might mention them, and it is good to know someone out there has a memory as good as mine or at least(in the case of Ruy Dias)has done more research than I have lately on the subject. :)
I remember reading an article about Vietnam in one of the gun magazines some time around 1970 that showed a bolt action rifle that was a copy of a chinese WWII rifle that had been hand made with files and not much else. Once the knowledge of firearms is out there, it cannot be suppressed.Can you imagine making a gun out of a file? How about Carbine Williams making the M1 Carbine in prison? It just isn't possible to stamp out guns, regardless of what liberal a**hats tell us.
Messed up the first post, here it is again!
Sorry, while it may not be home made it is NOT an M3 Grease gun. The ejection port is on the wrong side, for one thing. Many sub-machine guns were made out of stamped parts and resembled the grease gun. BTW, I was in the army from 1950 to 1962 and us tankers were armed with grease guns, so I can tell one at a glance. The ejection port is on the right side of the weapon(right side determined if you were holding it)and they have a cocking groove in the bolt(early ones didn't). They were great weapons even though they looked cheap and shoddy.
Everyone was enjoying this post about an illegal homemade submachine gun, that I thought you might enjoy this one about a legal homemade open bolt .22 single shot pistol.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2176331/posts
I’ve watched enough people that I know you use cement for PVC and pipe tape for iron pipes.
And that you should shut the breaker for any outlets you’re replacing in a room.
Don’t know anything about cars, unfortunately.
Should we all have to conglomerate in a couple of states, I know I won’t be useless.
Then it’s a good thing I’ve never done the club scene.
Rock concerts are a different story, however.
This guy had black and green hot, white ground.
I wondered why that damned box kept shocking me....
Then it’s a good thing I’ve never done the club scene.
Rock concerts are a different story, however.
If it’s commercial and thus done as wires in flex or BX as opposed to Romex, B-phase should be something other than white. NEC 200-7
I meant to add that red is the usual color for B-phase in 240.
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