Courtesy of Gun Free Zone and Sharp as a Marble, who both link to the story of exactly how this constitutes the complete failure of gun control (to wit, that fully-functional (if somewhat crude) firearm was fabricated in an American citizen’s garage, with completely unregulated, unregistered, and easily-procurable spare parts).
And ugly as my soul….
Looks like an Intratec version of a Mac-10.
Ironically, this is a great example of guns that scare people by looks alone… and therefore must be banned. I’d be terrified to shoot it, too.
@ Miguel: And about as functional
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@ the Dude: Hell, you would not see me handling that thing with a round in the chamber unless I had no other choice available to me… but the fact that people can make such things, and make them work, is pretty damned awesome regardless.
[...] control is nothing but a failed ideology. Treat it as such. This entry was posted in Freedom, Guns, Politics, Safety, Self Defense. [...]
I want to see video of somebody (NOT ME!!!!!!) shooting that thing!
Outlaw guns…only the people who actually know how to make things will have guns.
The forum indicated that it was remotely tested and appeared to function properly… but, yeah, not something this boy is going to put flesh near any time soon. But, really, if something that ass-ugly could be literally cobbled together in someone’s garage out of spare parts they had laying around or picked up at a gun show, just how awesome do you think the end product would be out of a dedicated machine shop, or if someone was only aiming to produce a black powder device? This djinn is well and truly out of its bottle, whether folks like to admit it or not.
[...] Being an engineer, I am predominantly interested in what works, and relying on cute little signs to keep hardened, murderous thugs from carrying certain pieces of machined metal into an arbitrarily defined area simply does not work. It is well past time to abandon “gun control” as a systematically failed experiment, and move on to other options that have a quantifiable history of being effective at least some of the time, unlike “gun control”, which has proven to be ineffective any time someone wants. [...]