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Home built M11 submachine guns seized in Australia
Australia’s garage-gun-fest continues with a fresh seizure of M11 submachine-gun copies reportedly produced by a jeweler, admittedly supplying up to 100 of the homemade weapons to local gangs. The...
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Sten submachine gun copies and other improvised weapons – Tel Aviv
Pictured is an interesting display at The Israel Defense Forces History Museum in Tel Aviv, featuring crude Sten gun copies among many other improvised firearms used around the time of the 1948...
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A peer reviewed forensic analysis of weaponized stapler engineering developments
Not quite – though as this recent article points out, there do appear to be increasing numbers of staplers converted into fairly advanced zip guns being confiscated worldwide. The common double action...
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More Australian motorcycle gang DIY firearms surface
Two homebuilt pistols were seized among other firearms on Tuesday by police in Sydney. They appear to have plastic (or perhaps aluminum) lower receivers with angular magazine wells. Both examples...
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Australian Police: 10% of firearms seized are homemade
The new boss of the Firearms and Organized Crime Squad has revealed that at least 10% of firearms seized by police in NSW are homemade. “Supt Plotecki said there was anecdotal evidence that outlaw...
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Local Egyptian guns (12g revolving shotguns made from bits of air rifles and...
The recent political upheaval in Egypt has fueled demand for cheap weapons for personal defense giving way to a variety of locally produced guns. Most commonly seen are patterns for simple...
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Drug cartel DIY open-bolt automatic rifles
A development in improvised weaponry spearheaded by South America’s drug cartel armorers has been the blow-back operated open-bolt automatic rifle. The simple solution to the usual intricacies of a...
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More South American homemade submachine guns
As previously delved into, a seemingly endless variety of these are regularly emerging, some of factory quality, others of bedroom quality. A very crudely made model recently trending in numbers,...
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Improvised revolvers seized in South America
I thought some of these examples were particularly … rustic. The last example appears to be trying to channel a S&W Model 3 top-break. The post Improvised revolvers seized in South America...
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Australian police arrest homemade pen gun supplier
Police in Sydney, Australia have arrested a suspected manufacturer and supplier of pen guns, an increasingly popular weapon among Australia’s world famous gasoline marauding biker gangs. The examples...
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Locally made ‘katta’ pistols seized across India
Homemade firearms have long featured strongly in Indian criminology. Known locally as Kattas or tamanchas, these crude handmade pistols account for up to 30% of firearms related crime. According to the...
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Jaco Western homebuilt pistol spotted in India
A number of factories raided by police near the Uttar Pradesh/Haryana boarder in India appear to have been producing copies of the Jaco Western pistol, a popular DIY design published in 1972 and sold...
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Handing in zip guns at buy backs
Some glorious individual decided to take a duffel bag full of improvised slam-fire shotguns (of legal length) to a local gun buyback which was offering $50 for each gun handed in. Unfortunately on...
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Homemade machine pistols seized in Sweden
The below are machine pistols of a design that were being produced and distributed by criminal networks in Sweden. Apparently specifications for many of the parts were simply sent off to various...
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Newport buyback refuse to accept ‘Hello Kitty’ improvised pipe shotgun
A recent ‘gun turn in’ sponsored by Newport Police Department spurred on local gun collectors to make a small profit by turning in unwanted junk firearms and also grabbing up a few bargains themselves....
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Australian police seize homemade submachine gun during drug raid
Pictured is a homemade submachine seized by police during a raid which also uncovered a suspected meth lab. The weapon itself is very obviously based on a design described in the infamous Expedient...
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Hecho En Connecticut –‘Colt Comando’ SMG
It doesn’t help that a large number of submachine guns churned out in the garages of Mexican drug cartel ‘engineering departments’ point the finger at the USA as their country of origin. You’d think...
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Buyback in Mexico nets homemade firearms
A recent gun amnesty in Mexico offering quick cash and groceries saw a number of interesting homemade and modified firearms turned in. Perhaps the jewel of the haul was a very nicely made .22lr...
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The discerning gentleman’s zip gun
Here’s a humorously tasteful take on a crude Vietcong-esque single-shot pistol design. All it’s missing is an intricate engraving depicting the last of the buffalo. The post The discerning...
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Japanese man arrested for building homemade guns
A 60 year old man in Japan was recently arrested for building homemade guns of his own design. According to him it was his hobby for the last 40 years. He used scrap anvils as a source of hardened...
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