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I don't know about wood resins, but I've printed a combined pistol grip and stock from ABS, and it works pretty well - no cracking or warping at all. The printing costs themselves are almost negligible, it's the printer that costs a lot.

My friend had a captured 1915 Westinghouse Mosin rifle some years ago, it had lousy accuracy but was probably just worn out from heavy use. I bet the weapon would've had stories to tell. Unfortunately my friend loaned the gun to some drunk idiot, the cops confiscated the rifle, and most likely...

Back to the original question: I guess optics are sold separately, because people want to buy them separately. Personal preference and all that. You really can't make a good "all-purpose for all people" scope.

Get an electric airsoft pistol, they're really cheap to shoot and usually have large magazines, and can be fired full auto as an added bonus (in case you get bored). A CO2 model works fine also. Ordinary pellet guns tend to leave lead shavings and dust all around the pellet trap.

I saw a banana-peeled RK-62 in the army. Someone had fired a live round with the blank adapter on.

I think the next step will be eliminating human error from aiming, meaning computerized sights and guided bullets. The technologies already exist. Also, all kinds of less than lethal weapons for police use.

I buy Sten gun, DP and AK mags every now and then, because they're dirt cheap from surplus stores. They tend to end up in art projects.

Because most of the Europe considers firearms as a privilege, not a right, all gun laws are considered a good thing by the majority. Even voicing a different opinion is considered weird in many places, and labels the person as a violent redneck.

The "funny" part is that restrictions on bullet technology date back to the 19th century, 1868 if I'm correct, and later in 1899 - days when military conflicts still consisted largely of troops standing in lines on a field and shooting at each other. Maybe, just maybe, in the time of smart...

All WW2 veterans I knew had some sort of hearing damage, so yeah.

I'd go for a captive bolt gun, preferably Blitz-Kerner with the red rounds. No risk of collateral damage, and has also better ergonomics than a firearm for slaughtering purposes.

If I could have even one gun, it would be a smoothbore flintlock muzzleloader. Can't get much more versatile than that. For a second gun I'd take a Mosin-Nagant M39, as they're really nice to shoot, ammo is readily available, and they also have historic value. Due to the laws where I live, I...

An assault rifle is a select-fire, intermediate cartridge rifle with a pistol grip. "Assault weapon" is a term meaning "evil-looking gun."

-30 celsius takes it's toll on mechanical parts - a couple of years ago my bike's rear hub froze solid and a pot metal brake handle snapped during a nice winter night. A low-quality gun might shatter in those conditions. Stuff with too tight tolerances also tend to jam, so run-in your guns...

Bad eyesight and shaky hands limit my accuracy to a certain level. I'm content with it.

I don't think 40 hours is that much, considering that self-defence shootings are pretty rare in Europe, and the event happened in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere - just getting the investigations going probably took hours. What I'm actually surprised of is that the shooter was...

My guess would be too tight tolerances and a foreign object (dirt, metal shavings) in the trigger mechanism. The handling jarred it off.

The Soviet WW2 SN-42 body armour consisted of 2mm steel plates, and 9mm bullets from couldn't penetrate it reliably at about 125 yards. A 124 grain 9mm bullet has about 230 ft/lbs of energy at 125 yards, and something like 320 ft/lbs at 25 yards. Let's make a calculation...

Finland's pretty high on the list, I'd guess. We have only 5 million people, but we've had three school shootings (one was thankfully victimless), a shopping mall massacre and a drive-thru restaurant triple murder, plus fifteen familicides in the last five years alone. Truly the happiest...

I have a 1793 smoothbore musket, converted to percussion caps later. It's not in shootable condition and has some ancient-looking repairs on the barrel.