[h1]Homemade Guns that will make you Cry.[/h1]
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Homemade Guns that will make you Cry.
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Ray Newman
Blackhawk
I bought that when I was 13.
Old guy I used to work with (now in his mid 80's and living in FL) used to tinker around with his Shopsmith and made a .45 caliber convertible:
I pointed out that he had the second cylinder facing backward in the pic and he said he would redo it, but never did.
He also made this buntline, which is a .22:
He numbered them. I don't know how many he made all together but the buntline is serial number 10 and the convertible is number 27. I seem to recall him saying that there were a lot of failures and never-completed guns and for some reason I think he only finished 5 or 6. He wouldn't sell one (I asked about the convertible because I thought it was cool as hell in some hideous demented way, and the fact that it weighed about 6 pounds just made it more awesome), and said that the only way he would ever part with one would be by gifting it, so as to stay on the right side of ATF. I suspect they will all get passed down to his kids.
I pointed out that he had the second cylinder facing backward in the pic and he said he would redo it, but never did.
He also made this buntline, which is a .22:
He numbered them. I don't know how many he made all together but the buntline is serial number 10 and the convertible is number 27. I seem to recall him saying that there were a lot of failures and never-completed guns and for some reason I think he only finished 5 or 6. He wouldn't sell one (I asked about the convertible because I thought it was cool as hell in some hideous demented way, and the fact that it weighed about 6 pounds just made it more awesome), and said that the only way he would ever part with one would be by gifting it, so as to stay on the right side of ATF. I suspect they will all get passed down to his kids.
Yeah until last year it was legal to make for your personal use anything you are legal to own. Technically it's legal to sell them as long as you didn't make them with the intention of selling them. ATF is really big on that intent thing. I'm surprised they haven't tried to charge me with constructive intent for having an office chair!!!
3/4" schedule 80 pipe has an ID of 0.742" and a 12 gauge shotgun shell has an OD of 0.725". Just saying...
Been there done that when I was 15.
I have seen them made with 2 pieces of pipe and wooden grips. Phillipine trombone gun
Mine had a hammer and trigger the barrel screwed in. I was making a pair of Mac 10's in shop class. The teacher marched me to the bandsaw with those. He didn't have a problem with me working on Muzzleloaders, revolvers knives and tomahawks I didn't see what the problem was.
No sense of humor... Imagine trying to do that in school today. We used to work on guns in shop class and as long as you weren't sawing off a shotgun or trying to convert something to full auto there was no problem
Yeah, that's why you've never met a "mind reader". There aren't very many of them around, and they're all employed 24 hours a day, 365 days per year, working for federal law enforcement.
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Yeah I wasn't converting anything I was making it from scratch. I even made the rifling broach.
Did you ever see the movie "Carbine Williams"? Jimmy Stewart actually fires one of the weapons that Marsh Williams made while in prison.
Is that correct? I don't remember hearing about making a firearm becoming illegal. I did hear that 80% frames now had to have serial numbers effectively taking out the easy to make industry.
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Don Lovel
Hunter
When I worked as a contractor at Leavenworth Fed Pen, they have quite a collection of improvised weaponry. Some inmate made a 1" ball bearing cannon that used matches for gunpowder.
I worked at a maximum security prison for many years. The improvised weapons were ingenious. There was a gun that used pieces of 1/4" rod or cut off bolts as the projectile. When you have 24 hours a day to scheme it's amazing what can be figured out
xtratoy
Hunter
I remember in 1973 a fellow student brought his dads brass framed Super Blackhawk to school to our leather working class and made a holster for it. Those were the days.
The welded Mini14 is a travesty.... Someone has a room temperature IQ to do something like that
That's some persison rat ther
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I refer to that picture as the picture that should be in Webster’s when you look up the meaning of “This Is Africa” or TIA!
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The Small Arms Review ran an atricle in March, 2007 on Improvised Weapons of the Irish Underground that shows some really well made guns, and then there are some other less well made pieces. If anyone is interested, I could send a .PDF copy to your email. I won't post it here, because of potential copyright violations.
When I was a kid those pipe shotguns and the bolt-striker .22 zips were actually pretty common street weapons. The zips were probably more dangerous to the shooter. Kind of a roulette not if but when the barrel would blow. The pipe shotguns were sturdy enough if ungainly, and you could get plans via the mail from the backs of magazines.
