The left has its panties in a wad because they have just realized that people can make full-auto firearms in their own home for a comparatively small amount of money. That’s always been the case. With a couple of hundred bucks, I can walk into any well-equipped hardware store and make a submachine gun using common parts.
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TRX · November 4, 2025 at 8:15 am
I have a machine gun. It’s about as much fun as you can have with your clothes on.
As a firearm, it’s nearly worthless, and with the happy switch flipped, it sucks cheap white box ammo at about $20 per second.
For most people, even with the 50-round magazine, it’s only a three or four burst weapon. For all practical purposes, a three- or four-shooter.
If I could find one of those bottomless TV or movie magazines that has an interdimensional gateway to a vast ammo supply, it would be marginally more useful, but even that won’t help with the fundamental inaccuracy of trying to hit any specific target other than “vaguely downrange.”
But Reality is a poor response to media scare tactics.
Zhytamyr · November 4, 2025 at 9:06 am
The left is a monolithic group of uniformed, small brained degenerates. It does not surprise me that they don’t know open bolt machine guns are 130+ yo tech and the average Joe could (minus the magazine) build one with $30 in plumbing parts, sheet, metal and springs in an afternoon.
SiG · November 4, 2025 at 9:18 am
We’re probably not going to be affected by it, but keep your eyes open for the extreme people here. They talk about things so broad it could mean outlawing 3D printers, or (by extension in my mind) home machine shops. There’s nothing I can do on my homemade CNC milling machine that can’t be done on a manual mill or even more primitive tools, like vises, clamps and file. In their attempts to try to keep people from making or modifying guns, they can create laws that keep people from making anything.
TRX · November 5, 2025 at 8:56 am
One of the justifications the ATF used for their raid-and-murder of David Koresh and his followers was that they were known to have a lathe and a mill, so they *could* convert semiautos to machine guns. For a while it looked like they were going to push ownership or access to machine tools as “constructive possession”, but they backed off that.
pchappel · November 4, 2025 at 10:45 am
I mean the 3D printed ones are pretty nice, but making “ad-hoc” firearms is nothing new… Heck shop class in high school there might have been folks “experimenting” and building Stens. Nothing complicated at all about that and with a decently equipped shop they could be mass produced quickly and cheaply as they were during the war…
Differ · November 4, 2025 at 12:10 pm
Man in UK jailed for having a written black powder recipe in his possession. Im sure it was a charge tacked onto something else and the raid on his house which turned that up was related to something else nefarious ….surely?
But black powder….really?
Granted he had it written down on a pice if paper, but what if he had an old book with i in on a shelf in his living room? Is it a crime to possess a copy of:
8 – The Earliest Middle English Recipes for Gunpowder
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 October 2020
Perhaps you could be arrested and charged with though crime in Blighty if you looked it up in an Encyclopedia in a library and memorized that incredibly complex formula?
Steve · November 4, 2025 at 12:23 pm
I think what’s got their panties in a bunch is that they never imagined it was easy enough that with the proper equipment, even they could do it. I’ve never met a leftie with the patience and perseverance to learn how to file and grind their own parts, but if they can just download a file, even they are capable of telling pressing the “Go” button on their CNC program. I still doubt their ability to assemble the springs and screws…
billo · November 4, 2025 at 2:41 pm
Well, smoothbore… What the world needs now is easy at-home rifling technology.
Divemedic · November 4, 2025 at 8:20 pm
Look through this blog. There are numerous posts on how to do just that.
billo · November 8, 2025 at 4:28 pm
I did a quick search. I found a video you linked to from 9 years ago, but YouTube has deleted it as going against terms of service. Most of the things I’ve found on my own are “easy” only if you are already a bit of a machinist and have a decent home shop. That’s a few steps away from the minimal tools and expertise necessary to, for instance, finish an 80% lower.
Anonymous · November 4, 2025 at 6:58 pm
SSSHHHHHHH!!! That’s a secret!!!
KurtP · November 4, 2025 at 8:07 pm
And in England, you can be arrested for having a recipe for gunpowder.
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/11/04/uk-man-arrested-for-possessing-gunpowder-recipe-n1230487
Xzebek · November 4, 2025 at 11:23 pm
Well, they are still traumatized by Guy Fawkes!
Plague Monk · November 5, 2025 at 5:23 am
I worked a few designer contracts where the employees made the products while on the clock, including OT on weekends. Often, some of them would stay around for a few hours and work on personal projects, using the company’s CNC, etc.
The unspoken rule was that the product took priority over our “toys”, but as long as not too much material was skimmed off, no one in management cared, even on DoD contracts. I did some CAD models for people, but I didn’t bill for my time. That was considered unethical.
I miss working, and I’m thinking about going back to school next year to refresh my skills as a NX 3D designer.
@HomeInSC · November 5, 2025 at 11:56 am
Range near me rents full-auto stuff. I’m kind of ambivalent about trying it. Maybe someday when all my projects around the house are done. Seems like the main use is to make the enemy duck while you move. You get what, 2 seconds or so out of a 30 round magazine?
Now a 7.62 or 50, belt fed and mounted on a vehicle, seems like a different beast altogether.
Unless the Left goes beyond their current level of full retard I doubt we’ll see those driving and flying around my area.
BadFrog · November 6, 2025 at 9:16 am
Full auto is most useful for teaching trigger control, especially to younger shooters
Big Country Expat · November 5, 2025 at 4:21 pm
Hey man! That’s how I built Flammenwerfers… I got almost ALL my parts on the ‘Zon… I can only imagine how they’d completely shit themselves sideways if they realized just how easy it is to build a quality weapon from “common household goods”
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