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The good news is that guns are made of metal and metal rusts. So outlaw the military weapons and replacement parts and wait.

mech765 3y ago
World war one rifles coated in cosmoline are just as ready to shoot today as when they were stored in a barrel 100 years ago. Take a look at the availability of the mosin nagant rifle.
linksnapzz 3y ago
Clearly, the technology for making things out of ...ferrous metals...is beyond the ken of ...Americans.
- tehwebguy 3y ago
  So we get manufacturing back in the US. Win-win!
rolph 3y ago
https://www.atf.gov/firearms/qa/does-individual-need-license-make-firearm-personal-use https://www.atf.gov/firearms/qa/does-individual-need-license... https://www.nps.gov/spar/learn/historyculture/making-guns.htm https://www.nps.gov/spar/learn/historyculture/making-guns.ht... https://interestingengineering.com/video/guns-factory https://interestingengineering.com/video/guns-factory
Ancapistani 3y ago
FYI: there's a pistol sitting on my desk in front of me, right now, that I had disassembled last night to thoroughly inspect and clean. It was made in 1909. That 114-year-old pistol is not only still functional, the only way you could tell it wasn't factory-new when I bought it a few years ago was that the black hard rubber grips were starting to turn a little brown at the edges, and the nickel finish was discolored in a few places on the slide. I've since restored the grips and carefully polished the finish to correct those two points. Off the top of my head, I have at least two shotguns, one pistol, and four rifles that have been in my family for >100 years. One of those rifles is so old that I'm unsure who first acquired it. It's a "Pennsylvania long rifle". Made long before serial numbers were "a thing", I'd date it to about 1820 based on the style. I know my great-great-grandfather had it, because I have a photograph of him using it as an old man in the early 1900s.

mech765 3y ago

World war one rifles coated in cosmoline are just as ready to shoot today as when they were stored in a barrel 100 years ago. Take a look at the availability of the mosin nagant rifle.

linksnapzz 3y ago

Clearly, the technology for making things out of ...ferrous metals...is beyond the ken of ...Americans.

tehwebguy 3y ago
So we get manufacturing back in the US. Win-win!

rolph 3y ago

https://www.atf.gov/firearms/qa/does-individual-need-license-make-firearm-personal-use https://www.atf.gov/firearms/qa/does-individual-need-license... https://www.nps.gov/spar/learn/historyculture/making-guns.htm https://www.nps.gov/spar/learn/historyculture/making-guns.ht... https://interestingengineering.com/video/guns-factory https://interestingengineering.com/video/guns-factory

Ancapistani 3y ago

FYI: there's a pistol sitting on my desk in front of me, right now, that I had disassembled last night to thoroughly inspect and clean. It was made in 1909. That 114-year-old pistol is not only still functional, the only way you could tell it wasn't factory-new when I bought it a few years ago was that the black hard rubber grips were starting to turn a little brown at the edges, and the nickel finish was discolored in a few places on the slide. I've since restored the grips and carefully polished the finish to correct those two points. Off the top of my head, I have at least two shotguns, one pistol, and four rifles that have been in my family for >100 years. One of those rifles is so old that I'm unsure who first acquired it. It's a "Pennsylvania long rifle". Made long before serial numbers were "a thing", I'd date it to about 1820 based on the style. I know my great-great-grandfather had it, because I have a photograph of him using it as an old man in the early 1900s.