Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns,soc.culture.british
From: [h--s] at [unity.ncsu.edu] (HENRY E SCHAFFER)
Subject: Re: Hungerford Facts (was Re: Part 1 of 3: The Case Against Gun Control)
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 02:59:27 GMT

[l s wilfin] at [remus.ral.rpi.edu] (Lee S Wilfinger) writes:
>But there's a big problem with this analogy. You can never get rid
>of all the firearms. And even if you could, firearms are too easy
>to build; they aren't particularly high-tech items. 

Is it *really* possible to build these things?  I mean without a huge
factory full of machine tools and thousands of expert machinists,
metallurgists and management?  Well, here's a book on that subject 
(write me if you want my full review.)


HOMEMADE GUNS AND HOMEMADE AMMO
by Ronald B. Brown
1986 Pub. Loompanics Unlimited, PO Box 1197, 
  Port Townsend, WA  98386
ISBN 0-915179-39-3   LC Card Catalog # 86-080535
5 1/2" x 8 1/2" 182 pages paperbound

  This book is nicely typeset with a profusion of diagrams and
good quality photographs.  Chapter 3 is the big one, and gives
step-by-step detailed instructions with diagrams and photos.
The tools involved include such exotic machine tools as a
handheld electric drill, taps, dies, files and a pipe threading
die.  Also a wood saw and a chisel would be needed to shape
the stock.  The raw materials include pipe, a pipe cap, a nail,
a hose clamp, some angle iron, and a spring.  I'm expecting to
see a 7 day waiting period to be able to walk into a hardware
store. :-)

...

--henry schaffer