Posted on 06/03/2021 7:31:18 AM PDT by PROCON
Banner photo: Mike Newbert via Facebook.
As part of a middle school project, an enterprising young man embarked on a journey to handcraft his own stainless steel shotgun-- and succeeded.
After the local paper apparently turned up its nose to the youth's accomplishment, one of his family members took to social media on Wednesday to boast of the young man's homebuilt shotgun, which looks to be a clone of an old-school H&R/NEF break action single shot model. Within hours, the post was shared and liked over 2,000 times, with some 200-- overwhelmingly positive-- comments logged.
This is Hunter Newbert and for his 8th-grade project, he wanted to build a stainless steel 20-gauge shotgun from scratch. He made the barrel from a used stainless steel boat shaft, the receiver from a scrap piece of stainless steel, the stocks from some cherry wood that was in a woodpile that was going to be used for firewood. He put many hours in learning how to and machining his own shotgun and we are very proud of him and by the way, it does fire and works properly. Great job, Hunter.~~~
A time-honored American tradition that pre-dates the nation, there is currently no license required under federal law to make a firearm for personal use.
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Here's Hunter's class presentation video of his craft project if you're interested.
Will be suspended from his virtual classroom.
Oh noes!!!!! It’s a ghost gun!!!!!
“A time-honored American tradition that pre-dates the nation, there is currently no license required under federal law to make a firearm for personal use.”
An oversight that will no doubt be corrected by the fine people at the batf.
Social media didn’t ban the post? Wow. /s
In other news, the school district is considering immersion classes in transgenderism for the student.
/s/s
I’m impressed....by both the young mans talent and ingenuity AND that he hasnt been expelled by his school and doxxed by the NY Slimes...
The Lad’s Mom: “Oh sure he can make a shotgun but he still throws his dirty laundry on his bedroom floor.......”
I made a miniature cannon in shop class. Nobody raised an eye.
The Leftist media headline and sub-head:
Deplorable 13-Year-Old Builds Ghost Gun
We need more scrap metal control!
“corrected by the fine people at the batf”.
I knew it as ATF. :-/
I think ICE was a bad O’Bummer choice in acronyms. As a verb, it means to kill!
Kudos to the kid. When I was his age, I made a shooting bench in woodshop. Making an actual firearm would have been well beyond my skill level.
Another “Hunter” the MSM overlooked...
That’s a ghost gun!! That young man should be in prison!!
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oooooooooooooooo, ghost gun... is there a serial number on that thing?
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has he registered it? has he passed a background check? Wait! 8th grade!!! The ATF will fail this on age alone.
That is a Beauty!
Good Work Kid,
You are well on Your
Way into a Fine
Career!
Nice shotgun kid.
But those kids need to TAKE OFF THEIR MASKS!
i would NOT be surprised id they came to take it...
I remember a number of guys doing that in HS.
The WayBack machine still works!
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