george burns
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Over this past weekend, "I think Sunday", I watched this episode that showed how these guys in Guatemala make 1911's by hand in their shacks. When the guns are done other than Grips and a serial #, they get sold to the next guy who pays $230.00 for them minus the finishing touches, Parkerizing and grips, and possibly sights, I believe he also makes and installs a fake serial # on the guns. They get smuggled hidden in diapers usually by women out of the country where they fetch big money, "for them".
They then go into Mexico and double the price, get sold to Cartels and gangs, in LA, for a couple grand by the time they are done, and look and function "according to the LEO's who they interviewed, just as well as a Colt or any other name brand". They are untraceable creating their high value, the show also told how the "burners" which are worth $160 "average, because they can have an unknown number of crimes and bodies attached to them, get moved out of the U.S.A. and sold for over a thousand in places like Lebanon, where there is no tracing done.
The thing that amazed me, was the quality of what I could see was in these 45's. Even the cops and bad guys said they are "Perfect" in every respect , and have no FTE's or FTF's. They shoot every time and are valued over conventional guns.
How can these guys do this using only hand tools, it seems impossible.
They also make Every type of rifle and pistol you can name.
I remember another news show that documented a town, I think in "Turkey" where everyone who lived there was in the gun clone business, making AK's and AR's in the market place.
Can it be that simple to do this with no machine shop? Forget 3d printers, they make a full gun in a day.
They then go into Mexico and double the price, get sold to Cartels and gangs, in LA, for a couple grand by the time they are done, and look and function "according to the LEO's who they interviewed, just as well as a Colt or any other name brand". They are untraceable creating their high value, the show also told how the "burners" which are worth $160 "average, because they can have an unknown number of crimes and bodies attached to them, get moved out of the U.S.A. and sold for over a thousand in places like Lebanon, where there is no tracing done.
The thing that amazed me, was the quality of what I could see was in these 45's. Even the cops and bad guys said they are "Perfect" in every respect , and have no FTE's or FTF's. They shoot every time and are valued over conventional guns.
How can these guys do this using only hand tools, it seems impossible.
They also make Every type of rifle and pistol you can name.
I remember another news show that documented a town, I think in "Turkey" where everyone who lived there was in the gun clone business, making AK's and AR's in the market place.
Can it be that simple to do this with no machine shop? Forget 3d printers, they make a full gun in a day.