A look inside an Afghan Home Gunsmithing Shop

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Whoops, tried to post a direct link to the video, but it didn't work right. Interesting to see them making complete firearms all in that little courtyard. On the shotgun one (first video), I couldn't tell if they said they made 16, or 60 shotguns a week. Can anyone ID the shotguns and handguns they're making, that is, what they're based on?
 
The shotgun looks like some sort of Frenchi...at least the way the stock folds up reminds me of one.
And the handgun the boy is working on in the pic reminds me of a USP but with a steel frame.
 
Human beings are industrious, resourceful and intelligent. This is a pretty impressive video.
 
Sounded like '60' to me. With an order of thousands to come.

The next John Moses Browning may have an Afghani name.

This, kiddies, is a prime example of why gun control is ultimately doomed. When a Pushtun family, or Yemeni tribe, can crank out 12 gauge shotguns by the crateload, and don't have any great respect for authority, the bliss-ninnies just aren't ever gonna find their sick little gun-free Utopia.

Bless the Afghani's little hearts.

LawDog
 
Back before the world communist menace imploded, back when the USSR was the Evil Empire, they had their own little quagmire in Afganistan. At that time (before we started sending them weapons) Afghan home shops were turning out SMLEs to fight the Russians with.
 
The next John Moses Browning may have an Afghani name.
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DOH, I was going to say the exact same thing but got sidetracked.
Many of these kids are about his age when he got into making firearms.
They're pretty lucky, if you ask me...
 
It pisses me off that we could have such things going on in america but for our stupid federal laws. Browning didnt have to pay an enormous license fee to become a machine gun designer. He just started making them.
 
Honestly, what makes you think that this is not already going on in shops all over the country, let alone all over the world.

TIZ
 
TIZReporter said:
Honestly, what makes you think that this is not already going on in shops all over the country, let alone all over the world.

TIZ
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Because there isnt money in it. Criminals can get high quality guns off the enormous secondary black market for cheap. Only in countries with complete gun bans is providing low quality ghetto blasters profitable. Do you think crappy mexican weed would sell in a legal marketplace? Same principle.

The guys in pakistan can openly make guns without being interfered with. They have low labor costs and low cost of living. Their machinery isnt going to be confiscated and the guns they produce are not regulated or watched.

If I could informally (without asking permission) make guns in my garage, I could start by just selling off my excess and then transition into some sort of business. As it is now, to start a gun manufacturing business you need to get a ton of permits and machinery. You then need to get word out about your new guns. It is very hard to compete in the legitimate market and still turn a profit in this country. The government has erected enormous barriers to entry into the firearms manufacturing industry.
 
This topic reminds me of G. Gordon Liddy's book, When I Was A Kid, This Was a Free Country. He relates that the average person in Afghanistan enjoys more real personal liberty (i.e., from government interference, which is the only legitimate definition of liberty) today than does an American. There was a time when we enjoyed as much liberty as they do, but those days are long gone. We live in George Orwell's 1984 compared to those people in that news segment. What a shame, eh? It was taken from us so gradually that we never even noticed as they slipped on our chains.
 
um..

i thought that it's illegal to make your own guns? what if i made my own gas-operated rifle that outdid the CAWS? what if i were a genius?

wouldn't i get in trouble if a cop saw my newfangled gun with no serial numbers? although i guess i could give it serial #1.
 
You can make your own guns in your garage. The guns need to comply with your state, local, and federal laws. IIRC Federal law makes no mention of providing a serial number on a weapon that you manufacture yourself and there is no federal paperwork either (NFA does however). You can sell a weapon you build but you cannot make it with the intent to sell it. When you sell it, it must be given a serial number.

More than you could ever want to know...

http://www.atf.gov/pub/fire-explo_pub/2000_ref.htm
 
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