How hard is home making a firearm? Have you tried? And is reloading ammo worth a shot too?
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>>64888605>Have you tried?no>And is reloading ammo worth a shot too?sorta
>>64888686It's not illegal to make your own guns as long as you don't sell them.
>>64888686HE'S BRINGING LOVE!BREAK HIS LEGS!
>>64888719>It's not illegal to make your own guns as long as you don't sell them.I'll add to this as some know it all is going to chime in with some bullshit. They have to abide by the ATF rules. No full autos, no SBRs, etc, and you have to be lawfully able to own guns, not a felon, etc.
I want to come up with a design that is as simple as possible. Using a 2x4, less than a foot of galvanized box rail, channel rail, box rail, etc, some lock collars, a Dremel, some kind of barrel material, some kind of homemade bolt which can really be made a million different ways with stacked washers and a stick welder or a torch and some silver solder or whateverLuty's design is aged and you can't find a lot of that shit anymore.
>>64888686not illegal
>>64888605How homemade are we talking?
>>64888825>Hello Blicky
>>64888605>Have you tried?
>>64888724In addition to this, semi-auto open-bolt guns are completely legal in the US (on a federal level) provided that they're originally built as semi-autos.The ATF's kvetching about open-bolt semi-autos is only in reference to guns that were originally designed as full autos. The regulations are about guns that are "easily restored" to full auto fire, not "easily converted".So you're not allowed to build an open-bolt semi-auto STEN gun or MAC-10, since those were originally fully automatic.But the laws and the ATF are fine with randos welding together open-bolt semi-auto pipeguns in their garages, provided that the guns are original creations and not semi-auto derivatives of other designs that were originally designed as machine guns.Fudds trying to claim that all open-bolt semi-autos are B& by the GayTF will sometimes start rambling about the FOX carbines.Those weren't originally designed as machine guns, but the glowies (correctly) classified them as such because those badly made piece of shit guns would (without any modification) fire full auto if the safety and the trigger were manipulated simultaneously.The GayTF classified those as full autos, but it had nothing to do with the open-bolt nature of the guns.
>>64888605I have "made" 10+ firearms. Mostly from parts kits available online. AMA
>>64889056Are the kits cheap and what material are they made from?
>>64889113>are the kits cheapNo. They will always cost more than the last time you looked so you should buy now.>what materials are they made fromParts kits are chopped up surplus firearms. So they are factory original parts usually, just with the receiver gone. It really depends on what kit you're looking at. Go browse apexgunparts.com or any other gun parts website to look at available kits
>>64888605>How hard is home making a firearm? Making something that will shoot one bullet once is incredibly easy. Accuracy, repeating, and reliability all make it a lot harder. The more off-the-shelf parts you use (especially fire control parts and barrels) the easier it gets. But barrelmaking and magazine geometry are always the hardest parts. A simple falling-block .22LR/Magnum survival rifle is an excellent starter project.>Have you tried? Obviously. Until my state effectively outlawed it. Not paying for a literal million-dollar insurance policy and constant police harassment for the "privilege" of operating an FFL.>And is reloading ammo worth a shot too?Depends on what you need and why. Some guns it's essentially required, especially with black powder and antiques. For 12g or 9mm there's really no point at all.
>>64888605>How hard is home making a firearm? Frankly it's not hard at all. Any motivated individual can probably cobble together a functional slam-fire 12GA with pieces of metal you'd find in an ordinary home's basement plumbing.A perfect example of this is the guy who smoked Shinzo Abe in Japan not so long ago - that was just a bunch of scrap metal taped together, and he killed the former leader of a first world nation. If you want to make something BETTER than that, a combination of skill, machinery access, time allotment, and experience will determine your outcome. IE if you've got experience, time, and skill, you can put together a nice, functional example with tools as simple as hand files and drill bits. If you've got machinery, time, and skill you can compensate for needed experience.If you've got machinery, time, and experience, you can develop skill.If you've got machinery, skill, and experience, you can obviously produce great things very rapidly.If you're going to make an attempt to produce decent firearms there's no way around investing in three of those four.>Have you tried?I have a lathe and mill in my garage, as well as the three main types of welders, drill presses, band saws, etc.I previously was employed in industrial service and repair, plus have generations of family involved in trades, so grew up quite handy and spent years of my youth with my grandpa and dad building all kinds of shit, so that's kind of normal in my family.So short answer yes, but mainly I do gunsmithing stuff as a hobby, rebarrelling receivers, modifying existing firearms, etc, and not making things from scratch.
We really need to have a dedicated parts kit general with all the cool new stuff coming in as of late.I’m still seething I missed both z-70b drops. Apex says they’ll be around for a while but I’m fomoing.
