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This isn't really a significant development. Building serviceable firearms isn't especially difficult and hasn't been for a long time. See http://improguns.blog
by Zak 14y ago
This isn't really a significant development. Building serviceable firearms isn't especially difficult and hasn't been for a long time. See http://improguns.blogspot.com/ http://improguns.blogspot.com/ for some examples.
Ammunition is also fairly easy to make. Anyone with enough knowledge of chemistry to manufacture methamphetamine could also manufacture viable propellants and priming compounds. Casting and machining brass for cartridge cases is fairly easy. Casting lead bullets is even easier.
There's no practical way to keep this stuff out of the hands of criminals if there's a demand for it.
- rdl 14y agoMaking reasonable primers (which would work in conventional firearms, and be sufficiently insensitive to heat and shock) is more difficult than you might think. That's by far the hardest part of the whole process; powder is the second hardest. Ammunition assembly is trivial (you can buy home reloading equipment) re-use brass or manufacture brass, and make lead or solid-copper bullets, make firearms, etc. all using home tools otherwise. Barrels are the most difficult part of the actual firearm. You could absolutely make a firearm which was much easier to build at home, including ammunition (BP and some kind of shotgun or grease gun open-bolt machine gun).