homemade weapons!

nope, it's generally classified as a potato cannon, which isn't a real firearm per se...

If I remember correctly it's based on how its used. If you were just shooting tennis balls or potatos for entertainment reasons it's alright, but if the tennis is on fire while being shot it is a destructive device. I would think using it to shoot an intruder would make it considered a destructive device. I think it was posted on the ATF website several months ago. I'd check to be sure.

I used to insert fireworks and firecracker into my potatos. About half the time the fuse would catch and the potato would blow to peices in mid air. That was great. I imagine that would also be considered a destructive device now that I think about it. You would have to check your state and local laws to be sure.

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The tennis ball cannon you described is as far as I know currently classified as a destructive device. If I'm right, that means if the cops wanted to give you a hard time, making one of those would be about as good of an idea as having an unregistered a machine gun. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong about this.

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Love to hear more about this... and what is the definition of a "destructive device"? Cops have plenty to do without chasing down a bunch of kids... and with a little imagination and a few Estes rocket engines said device becomes a great deal more!

We made the tennis ball cannons when we were kids - duct-taped 3 or 4 tennis ball cans together, set it up like a mortar, and blew tennis balls into low earth orbit. They were not the safest things in the world. A friend once tried to launch a homemade rocket by placing it on top of the tennis ball. The cannon did not survive, but somehow we avoided the shrapnel. I hate to think what would have happened had it been shouldered. If you make one, use a fuse and stand back.

A wrist-braced sling-shot and a bag of golf balls, not that covert but a lot of fun.

I would check out "anarchist cookbook". I don't know if it is still available online anymore. Of course that damn Communist US Goverment will probably have the site flaged and check out anyone whom looks(ed) at the website. They say its because of the Patriot Act (cought)bull-chyt(cough) . But none the less I do remeber them telling you how to make everything from potatoe guns...wich are extremly fun to smoke bombs (oh wait I bet I cant say that word anywhere anymore can I? :banghead: , and they call us "free".using light bubls with spent filaments. GOOD STUFF!

Hey, the Tennis Ball Cannons were called "Goose Guns" in Indiana. We also launched Dixie Cups full of little green apples, too.
In a safe, controlled manner, of course.
Bwahahahahahhaaa


I happened to see, in a home improvement store, that they were selling replacement garden-shears blades with 2 holes drilled in them for mounting purposes. Kinda sharp and pointy, they were.
On a nearby rack, there were some long, wooden replacement handles that also had 2 holes in them. In nearly the same place. How convenient.
The small-hardware section may or may not have had some 2.5inch lag bolts, lock washers, and nuts for $1.59...

Nearby were some neat Viking-looking tools sometimes called Bill Hooks, or Ditch Blades. (Whoooosh! is the sound they make when you accidentally cut open a 25 pund bag of Ortho Lawn Fertillizer, BTW)

Now, If I could find some old, worn out tires, some heavy-duty tin snips, and some ultra-heavy duty cable ties or somesuch, I might be able to make "a festive, decorative vest for my next costume party, officer."
If I were concerned about the pokey little sharp steel belts on the edges of the tires abrading my neck and arms, I might look for some of that grey colored plastic-foamy slip-on pipe insulation to glue or rivet on, but I'm just speculating, y'know...

Molotov's cocktail, no more said

Not allowed to carry at work (I work midnights in depp ghetto detroit) so I carry 1" deep socket. works like roll of coins without coming apart.

when I was a kid we made our own blow guns and darts out of pens and push pins, not real accurate, but hurt like hell.

I've read about British commandos making their own Claymores out of melted explosive in the bottom of a 5 gallon ice cream container, topped with ball bearings. Of course, you have to have the explosive in the first place.

Your fighting spirit is commendable. It reminds me of the "American Pioneer" spirit that blessed the USA through so many generations.

May I suggest to you a weapon that is simple, reliable, versatile, and can be made at home, though I suggest you purchase a genuine "Nihon" one for a modest cost to be an example for your projects?

That is the Japanese "Jo," the ~4 ft. staff of oak; "kunugi" or similar wood.
With training, it was effective against the "katana;" the training actually was done with wooden "bokken."

Don't underestimate it: It has long reach, can break bone, is not fragile, can be used to strike a fatal blow, can deflect oncoming blows, block them, can entangle, thrust, parry, jab, and more. With it your training is also good physical exercize too. You may even use it to throw your attacker, and subdue him with joint locks and nerve crushing pressure.

I carry mine while walking my dog, to fend off agressive strays, and for my own protection also.

What do you think?

Sack of doorknobs, anyone?

Jimbo Jones
"Hey! You're that drunken posse. Wow ... can I join ya?"
Homer
"I don't know ... can you swing a sack of door knobs?"
Jimbo Jones
"Can I?"
Homer
"You're in! Here's the sack."
Moe
"But you gotta supply your own knobs."

a word of warning though for those not familiar with the anarchist cookbook. A lot of people say how incorrect the explosives are. I havn't seen it myself, but if you get a copy don't let it be the end all guideline for any projects. May be a good read regardless though.

i agree with the inaccuracy of the anarchists cookbook. its not written by profesionals and if you are attempting to make something that can explode i would seek out profesional advice.

i owned the cookbook in my teen years and it is a good read. i made a few of the items from it.....some worked, some didnt. in retrospect it was a stupid thing for me to have done.

definitely do not trust versions of the cookbook floating around the internet...anyone can modify it and there are many sadistic people that will mislead you to watch you get hurt.

1911JMB, potato cannons, etc., aren't DDs in the eyes of the BATFE unless used as a weapon.

As for the anarchist's cookbook, stay away from it. It's really not worth getting killed over something that dumb - most, if not all, of the "recipes" for anything explosive (high or low, primary or secondary) is incorrect by a large margin. Runaway reactions when making explosives are very, very bad.


If you're set on doing things like that, get the military field manuals on "Improvised Explosives".

not sure if it was mentioned, but a couple good ones people use on campus is either a really hot cup of coffee, or a baseball bat (and glove so you aren't hassled).

just keep some water boiling on the stove "beebo style"!

I bought a garrotte at the local hardware store. It was disguised as a PVC pipe cutter. It's simply a thin braided stainless steel cable, the ends enclosed in plastic tubing and looped for handles. It does cut PVC pipe quite well.

Years ago, when I was a kid, someone at my school came up with some really cool mini blow darts. We cut some "bottle brush" plants growing near the school fence, carefully plucked off the red fuzz bundles, inserted a straight pin so that it comes out the base of the bud. Instant dart with bright red "fletching". Stick the dart in a soda straw, and you have a weapon perfectly capable of skewering skin. And provoking a swatting from the principal.

Answer

www.totse.com/en/bad_ideas/guns_and_weapons/

Hi im new but this site is probably one of the last sites still remaining that has info about homemade weapons and such.....ever since the london terrorism the government has sent many bans to the websites (ex: anarchist cook book)

can anybocy provide a link to information and pictures about a Nihon? I ranacked google but i couldn't come up with anything at all. Only a couple decriptions with no pictures, and they all said it was bladed. Thanks!

Here's a little toy I made a while back:

Omni04 said:

a word of warning though for those not familiar with the anarchist cookbook. A lot of people say how incorrect the explosives are. I havn't seen it myself, but if you get a copy don't let it be the end all guideline for any projects. May be a good read regardless though.

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The Anarchists Cookbook was written as a joke. The recipes in it are either completely made up or dangerous or whatever.

If anyone's interested, I have refined my design of the POS in the above picture, to an actually usable size. Fairly comparable to a crossbow, with useable sights and stock billy rigged from a junked vz-24. Also, the globe valve has been replaced with a solenoid valve, thus allowing the use of a semi conventional trigger.

mole said:

I used to insert fireworks and firecracker into my potatos.

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Good times...

I made a double sided throwing knife a while back... it got stuck in a tree and I've never got it back. Week later I used the left over metal to make throwing blades, and they got stuck in the same tree.

Avoid the Anarchist Cookbook, most of it is just plain joke and made-up.

3ft tubes w/ 4inch pointed dowels make nifty dart and dart throwers, but they're not as interesting as a flying blade chopping the heads off 4ft vegetation in the back yard

Horse sense you said

"Of course anyone with a fire arm would defeat me"

Wrong answer!

All a gun can do is inject a small bit of led into your body. Unless that led opens up a major artery or disrupts your central nervous system etc. you are still very much in the fight.

this is wrong a weaker side arm will have enough penetrating power to enter but not exit meaning it will bounce around inside you ripping up your organs sometimes a high penetration side arm will bounce of a bone and exit at a strange angle thats why if someone gets shots its not a straight line through the body it has an entry hole and the exit hole is a lot bigger because the bullet will exit lop sided leaving a bigger hole

just to let people now its better to try and run away instead of fighting a person or throw something at them lol but yes i have 3 samurai swords a 'show' captains sword which is extremly shard and some weopons from ww2 in working conditions for example a combat knife batton and next inline a rifle this is 100% legal woo