Pakistanian Gun Market

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Hi guys, this was something I stumbled on last night, and I thought some of you would enjoy this. In the video they show this entire village in Pakistan which is a gun market. They have 8 year olds making boxes upon boxes of 7.62x39 and all these men making guns by hand with crude machinery. They said the entire village makes 1,000 guns a day. (and it's been around for circa 40 years) The video is 10 minutes long, but I wish it would have been a 2 hour documentary. It's extremely fascinating!
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P.S. Most of the first 4 mins is intro, if you're impatient skip to that area.
 
Absolutely fascinating.

If anyone wonders what I want for Christmas.. do they take layaway there?? :)
 
I've always wondered if the hand-crafted Khyber Pass mystique is becoming something of a myth. I mean, those folks do have access to generators if they want them, and they're making real money, and many of their customers are very scary people who are all about results. Who's to say the guys filing on the floor in the front room aren't there mostly for show, and a bunch of small generators and machines are in the back banging out the real cash crop? ;). After all they are very proud of the hand-work aspect of their craft, and it wouldn't surprise me if they maintain an air of primitiveness to help emphasize their quality.

TCB
 
I have seen a video of a much more modern "factory" with proper electric powered tools. The setting seemed to be somewhere in Pakistan so I believe that some of these "garage" factories have upgraded. However, I would bet that there is enough of a market that some guys still do this by hand - either they have not been in it long enough to upgrade or they just can't pull in enough money to make that huge financial leap.

There is a huge range of sophistication in the weapons they turn out. I can't say what the current situation is but I know that in the past a good number of those AK's were smoothbores.
 
Firearms safety... what's that?

Anyone recognize guns other than the AKs? Like the $35 "Mauser" pistol?
 
Ahh, so THAT'S where Century gets its guns from! :p :p :p


...no 3D printing??? How is that possible!?!? :rolleyes:


Seriously though, I've had dreams of walking into gun shops like that and finding wondrous things like Artillery Lugers, SPAS-12s and AKs for literally the same prices they were showing. Absolutely fascinating.
 
I call BS on this one.

I did not see any real tools. A couple of hammers and some buffing wheels. One drill press.

Making 1000+ guns per day. Those guys. No way. Might be selling that number.

Why is the pistol stemped with "Made in China"?

They might be able to take them apart and put them back together. :rolleyes:
 
I say we get together as a group, get those guys some green cards, and bring them in as contract workers. They apparently do a better job than Century does.

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Why is the pistol stemped with "Made in China"?

That's pretty typical for Khyber Pass knockoffs. They try to make them look like an original firearm from a factory. It's hard to say if the stats the shop was giving the reporter were BS, but craftsmen have been turning out some very impressive stuff with simple hand tools for hundreds of years.
 
Many of these weapons are, as you would expect, cheaply made. I came into possession a Tokarev knockoff that was probably made in one of these gun mills that was stamped "Made in Pakistan." In English of all things which made me chuckle. It was poorly made and did not fit together well in some area and too well/tight in others. Still wish I could have brought it back, would have made a great project piece.
 
Vice's depiction does not leave a very accurate depiction of gun makers in Darra Adam Khel. On another forum I was arguing with someone who thought they were some kind of savants making clones of guns with hand tools. It's much more sophisticated that most think.

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These people have been making and selling weapon since before the time of Christ. What else is new?
 
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Knew it! :D The guys squatting on the floor out from rubbing iron and rocks together are all for show, to maintain the mom 'n pop master craftsman illusion --3rd world marketing at its best :p

"we'll make junk in the Far East, and market it as junk from the Faaaar East" :D

TCB
 
I don't know about their guns, but that Pakistani 9mm surplus ammo I got from the Sportsmans Guide a few year ago was the crappiest that I have ever bought!
 
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