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Professional, singular. All it really takes is one person with an ideological axe to grind and a moderate amount of skill, and you have instructions that others
by ThrustVectoring 8y ago
Professional, singular. All it really takes is one person with an ideological axe to grind and a moderate amount of skill, and you have instructions that others can use to turn off-the-shelf components into weapons.
It's happened before. P.A. Luty wanted to make a point about British gun control laws, so he built a submachine gun out of ordinary hardware store parts and wrote a book ("Expedient Homemade Firearms") containing detailed instructions. He got jailed over making these weapons, of course, but the point stands.
- angersock 8y agoAnd that's why Britain is overrun with submachine guns to this very day!
- ThrustVectoring 8y agoMexico and Latin America are the main place these sorts of weapons show up, and there was a noticeable uptick in these types of firearms after the book was published. Most people aren't willing to flout the law and build submachine guns, but once the knowledge is out there it's a thing that outlaws can and will do.
- mijamo 8y agoWhich is nice because then you get a super easy way to arrest them. It's much easier to arrest a gang member for having a weapon than catching them on the act. It is very common in Europe.