What's the best bang for your buck firearm + corresponding ammunition an isolated group could manufacture from scratch, given access to commonly accessible tools?Imagine you have to arm a small army in an isolated location.
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I'm thinking in order of complexity- flintlock muskets - Shinzo Abe style shotguns- cap and ball black powder revolvers
>>64576476>>64576476You can buy one in Africa for like 20 bucks. It's only in 60,000 in the US because you're free.
>>64576476>manufactureNo, you steal and plunder. The first shots are with civilian weapons until more can be taken. Guerilla warfare is all about siphoning the superior logistics and supplies of the government.
>>64576476Remington Rolling Block rifle with sword bayonet, brass black powder cartridges
>>64576476Sten gun.
It’s simple, (you) don’t. What you do is, you craft a single shot pistol and claim that you dropped them over a country by the cargoful for the locals to allegedly liberate themselves with.
how do you make black powder in large enough quantities to be usable? i feel powder is always the limiting factor.
>>64576896The hardest ingredient to find will be saltpetre but you might find it sold as fertiliser. Otherwise you're brewing it out of piss.
>>64576902The other ingredients are charcoal (carbon) and sulphur.
>>64576476is this another 3d printing thread in disguise?>solar paaaaaanels
>>64576881This unironically. There have been some slightly improved designs since but this is pretty much the simplest you can make an SMG. Rifles are a different question though.
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>>64576889Then the government of that country overreacts and murders a bunch of oogas, the whole population rises up in revolt, government loses legitimacy, NATO strikes sanctioned, 6 months later you own a zinc mine
>>64576943you'd think rifles would be more useful to this kind of operation
