It seems someone was inspired to make a quick $400 for charity at a local police gun ‘give back’ in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Rather than the taxpayer, it was Warren Buffet’s sister Dorris who footed the bill, reportedly in order to circumvent [Read More…]
There is a thread over at AR15.com that has some video, a parts list, and some rough instructions for building a suppressor.
WeaponsMan picked up on a rather interesting modified firearm that was turned in at a Tampa Florida gun buy-back. It was a .22 bolt-action rifle built into a flute. Two rocket launchers and a flute fashioned into a gun were among the weapons turned into the Hillsborough [Read More…]
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 machine shops and ordered as ‘boat components’. All examples [Read More…]
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 this occasion the officer manning the table was apparently [Read More…]
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 via mail order in the USA. Many more Indian homemade pistols can be [Read More…]
YouTube gun design entrepreneur and kluger Royal Nonesuch is at it again, this time with a bolt-action shotgun. Claimed to be 90% complete, it features parts from a variety of sources. Mr. Nonesuch uses an HK lower receiver and parts group, Saiga magazine, AK-47 [Read More…]
Editor’s note: This article was written by Claymore. His previous blog posts can be read here. A while back I was talking with a friend who was employed by one of our government’s many “agencies”. As usual we eventually got around to discussing [Read More…]
Boys will always be boys. Before guns they made pretend swords out of sticks. Before swords they made clubs. The invention of the gun presented unique challenges to boys the world over. My attempts at building a gun involved a lot of elastic and usually ended up being [Read More…]
Ryan emailed in this photo of a fascinating pistol. It appears to be a homemade open bolt1 machine gun revolver. [ Many thanks to Ryan for emailing me the link. ] Open bolt refers to the fact that the bolt has a fixed firing pin and slams into the primer to fire the [Read More…]
This pistol belonged to a member of EOKA, a group who fought against the British and Turkish for Cypriot independence during the 1950’s. The barrel on the pistol is a 20mm cartridge case! I think the general idea was to pack a very small charge of blackpowder at [Read More…]
Michael Z. Williamson has posted photos of a Build Party Weekend during which he and a bunch of other guys made and repaired guns. During the weekend Mike made the receiver and some of the internals of the below AK. Beautiful wood More photos here.
James found this photos of a pair of homemade pistols that appear to be chambered in .303 British! Apparently they, along with the cartridges, were confiscated from some students. Can you imagine the blast of burning power that must shoot out of these! I found the [Read More…]
Daniel Eindhoven has build a very sci-fi looking semi-automatic coil gun. The pistol uses a single magnetic coil to pull the projectile out of the gravity fed magazine and towards the coil, thereby accelerating the projectile. It then shuts off the coil and the [Read More…]
The Election-Gun-Buying-Mania does not appear to be purely an American phenomenon. The black market in India have seen prices for guns double since before the general election. The arms dealers claim the spike in demand is attributed to the various political factions [Read More…]
These photos are apparently of a Palestinian using some sort of homemade grenade launcher. It looks like it could be a 40mm grenade in the barrel, or maybe some type of 40mm less/non-lethal grenade like round, such as tear gas. It appears to work by striking the firing [Read More…]
James of Hell in a Handbasket spotted this photo on a Peruvian travel blog. It is homemade percussion lock gun. The owner apparently uses homemade gun powder (not hard to do … but kids don’t try this at home). If you have read this blog for a while, you know [Read More…]
An 80 year old Finnish man invented this .22 LR belt fed machine gun. It could be fake but looks legit and is plausible. Jani confirms it is real in the comments below. Click to expand. The approximate translation of the caption: 80-year-old hameenlinnalaisininoori [Read More…]
Last week Engadget reported that a man was killed by an exploding cell phone battery. Turns out he was carrying a homemade pistol, which fell on the ground, discharged and he was hit by the bullet. Engadget reports: According to some roughly translated reports from [Read More…]
About two weeks ago the police in Winnipeg, Canada, confiscated a a bunch of saw off shotguns, ammo and a unidentified submachine gun that is reported to be homemade. Full photo at The Winnipeg Sun The Winnipeg Sun reports: Possibly homemade, the submachine-gun and five [Read More…]
The problem with blogs is that shortly after something interesting is posted it is moved to the dusty archives in the recesses of the blog and only ever uncovered by the occasional google visitor. I came across, courtesy of google, a series of articles at SaysUncle on [Read More…]
TFB reader Mehul emailed me some photos that his friend, a law enforcement officer, took of confiscated homemade pistols manufactured by Naxalite (communist) rebels in North East India. Mehul said that when he was in India some years ago their backyard guns were very [Read More…]
A worker holds a variety of destroyed guns on December 12, 2008, in Sogamoso, Boyaca department, Colombia. An assortment of 25.000 weapons, seized to different groups that participated in the Colombian internal conflict, were incinerated. Interesting two barrel pistols. [Read More…]
English Russia, a humorous blog about all things Russia, has photos of home-made firearms confiscated by police and army in Chechnya. Click to expand images: 30mm or 40mm grenade launcher? Looks like a Baikal over and under shotgun with pistol grip and cut down barrel. [Read More…]
The .50-Caliber Rifle Construction Manual written by Bill Holmes was published in 2002. The Amazon customer reviews have criticized the book for its poor drawings and complex construction techniques. A guy names “mxwelch” on YouTube has build a working .50 [Read More…]
Reader Joe kindly sent through photos of his .45 cal Philadelphia derringer made from a kit I blogged about some time ago. It looks great! Here are four pics of the derringer I built in 1978 at age 19. I colored the wood by staining with a Minwax walnut and then [Read More…]
Xavier has a write of an an amazing five barrel shotgun made in Czechoslovakia. Looks like a similar concept as the Winchester Liberator and Colt Defender Eight barreled 20 gauge Colt Defender Mark 1 Read it here.
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