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"Illicitly 'homemade' submachine guns feature very prominently in firearms
seizures by police across South America, Brazil in particular. These weapons
vary in their level of sophistication though a large number appear to be
semi-professionally produced. In a recent study of over 14,488 firearms
seized between 2011 and 2012 in Sao Paulo alone, 48% of submachine guns
analyzed were reportedly homemade. Given the decent quality of many SMG
clones, even that high statistic is probably significantly under reported. "
The ironic thing is that it is easier to make a sub-machine gun like a STEN,
an M3 "Grease-gun", an Uzi or a MAC-10 in a small metal working shop than it
would be to make a semi-automatic handgun, the mechanisms for those
particular firearms being simple in the extreme. The most difficult task
would be making the detachable box magazine, and that task would seem to
have been solved by 3-D printing. Not that the outlaw Brazilian gun-makers,
whose wares are pictured on the blog, seem to have had any difficulty
manufacturing them using conventional 20th Century era methods.
By Epictetus
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