Technology To Protect The 2nd Amendment

[JTHunter]

Dweeb - you're right about "sophistication" but I thought the purpose of this thread was "home-brewed" tech if Dumbo tries to nullify the Second. I was describing one of the simplest methods to circumvent those restriction.
During WW2, certain companies (don't remember which) were making a pistol-caliber submachine gun genarically called a "grease" gun. It was called that because so much of it was made out of cheap, quickly produced, sheet metal stampings. Like the Liberator pistols I mentioned earlier, they weren't very good, didn't fire as many rounds per minute as better known/made guns, but could be mass-produced quickly and cheaply. This allowed them to flood the front lines with additional firepower when sorely needed.
That article about Brazilian illicit guns is good but is at least a couple of levels of sophistication above what I described.

 

[MErl]

JTH I understand where you are coming from and you are right. A single shot short pipe zip gun is very easy to make and in times like WW2 were useful. That understanding is not going away as the tech is too basic.

However, if we want to defend the right we currently have to make our own firearms I think it would be wise to focus on results that fit within existing law (mainly NFA). That right is under attack with all the 3D hype.

 

[MagnumDweeb]

Turning out unlawful guns or incredibly crude guns doesn't serve our public image well. We can be badasses all we want but we won't be winning the hearts and minds of the middle ground. We at some point want to show that utilitarian, safe, and legal guns can be made. And should the definition of what is lawful change too draconianlly, those skills and abilities won't just disappear.

In the meantime it would also serve as a platform for bringing in a new potential crop of gun owners. Imagine selling an 80% receiver for a single shot roller block action pistol with a kit and barrel that requires the buyer to wisely use a set of files, over time, to clear out the right bars of the receiver so as to have a functioning single shot roller block action pistol. It'd only be a single shot pistol but if it could be sold to the public for $100 or less then you'd have something to get the public interested. Then imagine a double barrel version and now you are creating home defense pistols for people ordinarily too poor to have access to guns.

You limit the calibers of the pistols to .38 special and .45 long colt [that can also shoot .410] (with safety advisories as to load levels) and then you have folks who now own guns they won't want taken away from them that the antis will of course want to take away from them.

And of course I spent four hours on the weekend CAD drafting a model of the roller block double barrel pistol in .38 special. At some point I'm going to have to pick a project in March and stick to it.