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You can certainly drill out a very short, non-rifled barrel on a drill lathe in single-digit minutes. Everything in this story is an exaggeration or misundersta
by didgeoridoo 6y ago
You can certainly drill out a very short, non-rifled barrel on a drill lathe in single-digit minutes. Everything in this story is an exaggeration or misunderstanding, so it wouldn’t surprise me to find the “2 minute” figure to be a wild-ass guess too.
- NoImmatureAdHom 6y agoYeah, you can make a hole in some metal. I would argue that doesn't make it a "gun barrel". A barrel will almost always have rifling and some sort of breech locking mechanism. Unless you've got some truly wild CNC setup, you have no chance of both making the hole (even smoothbore) and any sort of locking mechanism.
- icegreentea2 6y agoIf your gun doesn't lock (simple blowback for example), then you can skip the breech locking mechanism. Agreed that I don't think you can meaningfully rifle a barrel in under 2 minutes though.