I *think* it is legal to manufacture a gun that is otherwise legal (not a machine gun) as long as you don't then transfer it to another person, so this guy may be using an excess of caution to use a 10/22 receiver with its limited magazine capacity. I've seen similar home-made Gatlings over the years using hoppers or belts. .
Don't know about the States, but in Canada it is legal to manufacture a firearm provided that: you are not manufacturing a prohibited firearm (short barrel, full auto, etc) and you are not manufacturing for the purposes of resale/re-transfer Manufacturing for the purposes of resale requires a firearms business license in Canada. In the US I believe this is a manufacturing license?
Yes. I think the laws are quite similar. This has come up recently with the 3D printing thing, so you get people screaming to ban exchanging the files without realizing anyone could create a much better gun with a few tools in their garage. Look at the Poles in WW2 with the various subguns made in basements. .
I've often wondered where I could go to find an Exploding Hammer Festival and lamented the lack of Exploding Hammers across the US. I blame the democrats with their intrusive safety laws for the lack of Exploding Hammers in this country. The good news is that I have finally found a location that caters to Exploding Hammer enthusiasts down in San Juan de la Vega, Mexico. Every year they stage an Exploding Hammer Festival for locals and tourists alike. You can always count on our Mexican neighbors to know how to have a good time! Enjoy:
yeah. always enjoyed watching the videos of those guys. if peeps remember, we could buy a box of rolled caps for capguns (I had a luger. fired thousands of rounds in that puppy)...anyhoo, we'd put a box of caps on the cement and hit it with a hammer. tres cool and a lot of fun, if not deafening. still count myself lucky after filling a metal cigar tube with BP, attaching it to a rubber band powered balsa wood glider. and igniting. I used several firecracker fuses to gain enough distance. good times.
I had never heard of this festival before stumbling on this video. These guys are nuts, a quality I can admire. .
yeah. we had never heard of it either. we were 12 and had only 3 tv channels. so we had to find fun. it wasn't until 20 +years later we saw the Mexicans were doing exactly what we were, only they used way larger charges. kind of like ww2 nations paving the way for nukes without actually knowing other nations were doing the same...like jets, for example.
I haven't posted in this thread for a long time, but the border crossings continue, though at a slower pace. I'm something like 40 miles above the border as the crow flies, but it's double that (at least) for people wending their way through the mountains. As I've talked about earlier, mostly they are harmless. In fact, the great majority of people I come in contact with are seeking help. They need water, badly, and they ask me to call the Border Patrol because they can't make it to wherever they thought they were going. I don't see the new wave of Central Americans. Those people cross the border and request asylum at once. Mexicans are not eligible for asylum, so those are the people I come in contact with. They are trying to get to Tucson or other places and had no idea what they were getting into in those dry mountains (the Peloncillo range). The drug mules are different matter entirely. I've seen them at times, but none recently. They wear camo and carry square backpacks. They avoid the isolated ranches like mine. They have a firm schedule to meet a vehicle someplace and rarely expose themselves in daylight. Recently, this girl came out with one eye reddened and her face swollen and bruised. She had been beaten and raped repeatedly. "They" had promised to take her to Phoenix where her husband is, but when she asked me the date she just shook her head and told me they had held her for eight days up in the hills. All of them (I didn't ask how many) had used her whenever they wanted. She used the word "moleste" which just means "bothered" in Spanish. She looked down when she said that, but the meaning was clear. She finally ran off one night, found my place and asked for help. It took the border patrol almost two hours to arrive. I brought her inside, gave her water then coffee, then finally fed her. Her name is Juana or Juanita and she told me a little about her ordeal, as I relayed above.
Damned decent of you, KB. To take such a risk as she did is understandable, but seems crazy. At least she survived her attempt.
Good on you Kodiak for your kind act. A few years back I worked on a landscape crew with a fellow from Guatemala who spent 3 days locked in a shipping container with his wife and young daughter to get here and request asylum. He was Jewish. Go figure.
There is a backlog of 2000 unidentified bodies found in the Tucson "Sector" of the Arizona desert in the last 10 years or so. These are just the unidentified bodies found in central and east Arizona, not bodies with papers to identify them or bodies found in other sectors. The DHS keeps the DNA on file and tries to match them to missing persons reports from Mexico and Central America, usually with no luck. It gives you an idea of the scale of the problem. I read an article interviewing a team in Southern California that roams around trying to help the lost and stranded, and recover the bodies. They say most are never found because the instinct when dying of dehydration is to crawl into thickets for shade. They die there and are invisible to searchers. The animals pick them apart and before long there is nothing left to find. .
Hard to 'like' that post, KB. Feels a bit like liking a truly nasty situation. Good on yer for being an outpost of civilisation, though.
I suspect her new Border Patrol friends will escort her back to her native land. They'll probably pass on the information of the presence of her undocumented husband in Phoenix to ICE. This story is likely to have a tragic ending.
Yeah, as a Mexican she will (was) deported immediately. They are not eligible to apply for asylum. Her husband won't be deported. Once past the 100 mile zone along the border ICE only acts on felons, so he's fine. I hope she finds a way to get to him. .
probably the best place for this: mossberg shockwave 590M. this is NOT a shotgun. it is a firearm- ok. 10,15,20 round clip available in 12 gauge.
Since we're back on guns, my newest build. I chose all the lightest parts available in 9mm, with a binary trigger and all at a weight of 4.5 pounds (2 kilos to you furrin types). A binary trigger is the newest dodge around the ban on auto weapons and is ATF approved. The trigger fires when you pull it, then fires again as you release. If you just slap the trigger quickly you get a rate of about 400 rpm. It runs 20 and 33 round Glock magazines.