Posted on 12/13/2019 8:18:15 AM PST by w1n1
Homemade or DIY guns come in all shapes and sizes. Intrepid basement-workshop gunsmiths try to make their own for various reasons.
These homemade guns sadly missed the mark completely. Don’t cringe when you look at these wonders. Would it shoot? Probably these homemade guns might have potential at the one foot range, but it can also go wrong for the user as well.
Duct tape may be one of the greatest invention because you can use it for many things like this and other guns…
-Who knows, this could be a prototype for Buck Rogers ghetto blaster…
-Taken by the police from the streets of Sydney, Australia. They say many have been showing up among low level criminals.
-An SHTF bug out bag from one of the warlords soldier in Nigeria. Looks cool huh?
-This homemade pistol was made by a Connecticut teen who charged $200 for this junk. Making money anyway you can.
See the rest of homemade guns.
what could possibly go wrong?
If it only needs to work once... It’s only stupid if it doesn’t work.
Criminals will do ANYTHING to make it easier to hunt their victims.
This is Reason #1 behind our Constitutional protection for the Individual Right to keep and bear Arms.
The logic is sound and inescapable. To deny it is to deny reality.
Which, doesn’t slow gun haters and politicians down one iota btw...
We have the right to keep and bear arms because there will always be those who do violence to good people... public and private sector.
The bottom section of old automobile radio antennas hold a .22 round very well - made a few myself as a kid. Zip gun.
A 4chan contest for tech wizes would propose an easy to mass produce simple gun design. It probably could build a hundred guns for 10 bucks each in a week’s time. It likely happened already.
RIFLE MAKING. In The Great Smokies. BY ARTHUR ISAAC KENDALL 1941.
https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/regional_review/vol6-1-2f.htm
You could put onion juice in a water gun. That’s make you cry.
The simplest and cheapest is probably the “paliuntod” single-shot shotgun you can make with just two steel pipes, a nail, and an endcap. One pipe is the barrel, just wide enough to insert a shotgun shell into. The second pipe needs to be wide enough to fit the first pipe inside when it is loaded. Then you get an endcap that fits the second pipe and drill a hole in the middle to put the nail through for a firing pin.
To fire it, you load the first pipe, then slide it back into the second pipe until the shell hits the firing pin.
When I was lived in Thailand, the local talent used to make 12 gauge and .410 handguns, I saw a quite a few and they looked pretty good but I would not fire them.
They were single shot break open jobs.
Up country there were a lot of bus hijackings where small groups of Bandits would raid buses and steal what little they could from the locals who were riding the buses out in the middle of the bush and what they used were guns of this nature.
[[-Taken by the police from the streets of Sydney, Australia. They say many have been showing up among low level criminals.]]
Guess he aint very good at his ‘job’- can’t afford real ‘tools of the trade’- maybe he should work as a janitor somewhere, or burger flipper- he’d be much better off financially-
People do understand that during some wars-the civil war, I,E, they actually bored out logs and used them for cannons. Fired them once or twice and discarded them.
Cant remember the name they gave them...
Hmm, no, they were fake.
I know that during the battle of Manassas the Confederates, lacking the real thing, put hollowed logs on gun carriages to fool Union observers.
But I don’t think tbey ever tried to actually fire them.
They were called Quaker guns
I've already have the tape and zip ties. I also have access to piles of scrap metal each week just before the trash collectors come around.
So many models! I'm trying to decided which one I start with. Any favorites?
Page 191 US Grants civil war memoirs. Seige of Vicksburg.
“there were mortars with the besiegers, except what the navy had in front of the city; but wooden ones were made by taking logs of the toughest wood that could be found, boring them out for six or twelve pound shells and binding them with strong iron bands. These answered as COEHORNS, and shells were successfully thrown from them into the trenches of the enemy.”
By US Grants own witness.
See post 17
Post 17
For self-defense in no-carry locations we need guns well disguised as other items one would normally carry.
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