This unusually configured homemade 9mm submachine gun was seized by Israeli police last year while executing a search of a suspect’s home.

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery though in some of these cases I’m not entirely sure that’s true.

Locally made fully automatic firearms such as these typically feature in criminal activity though have on occasion been used to carry out several terrorist attacks. Despite several recent high profile raids on workshops producing these boot-leg weapons there continues to be a readily available supply, partly because its quite hard to successfully regulate pieces of tubing and sheet metal.