DIY Weapons

Am Shooting Journal ^ | 10/23/2019 | C Cocole

[w1n1]

Where there is a will there is a way. Some folks have fashioned weapons from Playstation controllers to explosive devices. Many of these weapons that were home grown is due to their lack of economy but great in innovation to bring the fight. Guess that's why they strap every weapon they have and hope that physics is in a good enough mood today to let them fire knives out of their machine gun. The following are groups in no particular order that were fanatics in their cause while launching their own DIY wrist rockets at each other:

Blyskawica Submachine Gun
Błyskawica was the backbone of the Polish underground weapons used during World War II. Used by the Polish Underground State, an umbrella organization for all resistance movements in Poland during the war. The Home Army used partisan and urban guerrilla warfare to fight the occupation with sabotage and small scale skirmishes with German forces in the countryside.
The gun was designed by two Polish engineers, Wacław Zawrotny and Seweryn Wielanier, they combined the exterior of a German MP-40 sub-machine gun and the interior mechanism of the British Sten. All parts of the weapon were joined with screws and threads, rather than bolts and welding.
This allowed easier production for less capable engineers. The similarity with the German sub-machine gun enabled the use of captured ammunition, as it used the same caliber and the magazine was identical. It fitted the needs of the Home Army high command since it was easy to construct and it could be made out of different improvised materials that were available.

Molotov Cocktail
A Molotov cocktail is a breakable glass bottle containing a flammable substance such as petrol, alcohol, or a napalm-like mixture, with some motor oil added, and usually a source of ignition such as a burning cloth wick held in place by the bottle’s stopper. The wick is usually soaked in alcohol or kerosene, rather than petrol.
In action, the wick is lit and the bottle hurled at a target such as a vehicle or fortification. When the bottle smashes on impact, the ensuing cloud of fuel droplets and vapour is ignited by the attached wick, causing an immediate fireball followed by spreading flames as the remainder of the fuel is consumed.

Improvised Sten Gun
The use of the Sten as a blueprint by Loyalist Paramilitaries for a homemade design was a common feature of firearms produced across occupied Europe and indeed by loyalists in Northern Ireland. The reasons for this are simple as Russian firearms writer Max Popenker explains, "Open-bolt SMGs are the simplest and cheapest form of full-automatic weapon; they offer much more firepower than any handgun, yet are much simpler to build than any rifle, especially semi- or full-automatic".
Open-bolt SMGs are so simple to produce they can be assembled without any sophisticated tools. The types of weapons produced filled almost every niche. .22 pen guns that fit in a shirt pocket without attracting attention. .410 and 12 bore shotguns, in both single and double-barrelled configuration and of folding or “trombone” actions (detailed later)…single-shot .303 rifles and crude .22 “zipper guns” wielded by the Tartan gangs. Silencers were also made and existing weapons adapted to accept them by cutting threads into their barrels. But 9mm Sten/Sterling-type sub-machineguns were by far the most prevalent and practical. Read the rest of DIY weapons.

[Spruce]

What about pointed sticks?

[SanchoP]

These guys are so stone age about Molotov cocktails. Next generations are wickless with common household chemicals.

[NTHockey]

Allegedly, kids in the Bronx made .22LR guns out of cap pistols. They also used sling shots firing jagged linoleum pieces.

[farming pharmer]

These guys are so stone age about Molotov cocktails. Next generations are wickless with common household chemicals.

Primary & secondary explosives and war gasses can me manufactured with a small investment in tools, knowledge and common household chemicals.

[bigbob]

Still have my copy of The Anarchist Cookbook as well as the Army and Special Forces guides. Not much new here.

[King_Corey]

For about 8 bucks at the local hardware or big box store you can make a simple firearm. The idea behind the liberator was a single shot to get rid of an enemy soldier and take his weapon and ammo.
A simple search will show video of assembly and a parts list with how to use with examples of shooting.

As a second part, just adding pool shock and brake fluid will get you a flaming green fire.

Aluminum powder and magnesium powder in a steel tube will burn through armor when ignited with a sparkler as improvised thermite.

I could keep going, but anyone with a bit of knowledge can make improvised weapons that will work very well.

[Do_Tar]

I was curious so I did a search on “improvised thermite”.
Now there’s an FBI van out front.
If I don’t post for a few days I’m probably in the bunker.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I’ve got several articles on improvised firearms from fifty years ago. One dealt with the problem of criminals in California prisons making full auto sub machine guns. Even the cases were prison made.

One criminal saved bread wrappers till he had enough to melt down into a plastic dagger.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I am currently serving time (again) in Facebook Jail for something I posted. No idea what it was, or when it was. I feel like the man in a Kafka novel THE TRIAL.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[bigbob]

Shove a shotgun shell into a badminton birdie and a push a roofing nail into to the sponge rubber tip. Toss.

[Chode]

[The Great RJ]

My uncle somehow obtained a shotgun made out of pipes supossedly used by Philippine guerilla fighters during the war. A long section of pipe served as the barrel and had a diameter that held a single 12 guage shotgun shell. A shorter length of pipe of a slightlly larger diameter was affixed to a crude wooden stock which had a firing pin made from a nail pounded into the wooden stock and protruding into the shorter pipe. The weapon was fired by putting a shotgun shell into the end of the “barrel” and ramming it into the shorter pipe. The nail would hit the primer cap and fire the round. My uncle said he tried firing the weapon and while it worked it made an unearthly bang and the barrel became too hot to touch.

[TexasTransplant]

Just pick up the weapons dropped by the “Collectors” ie those tasked with collecting

[Chode]

yup

[piroque]

http://www.thehomegunsmith.com/

[Chode]

great site