• @Eegra
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    1911 months ago

    That looks straight out of Fallout.

    I recall a movie where some kids were menacing another kid with a bullet braced in a vice while they were waving a hammer over a nail placed opposite the business end of the cartridge. Life, uh, finds a way?

    • @mvirts
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      1011 months ago

      I remember that movie. Set in Bombed our WWII London I think? Don’t remember the name

  • @Dr_Fetus_Jackson
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    1511 months ago

    NGL, that’s brilliant. Very little modification needed to simply set off and crudely direct a rimfire cartridge.

    I did a couple of year stunt as an IT Director at a sheriff’s office and detention center. I was amazed at what ingenuity a bored mind and plenty of time can yield.

  • stevedidWHAT
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    611 months ago

    How to lose your fingies 101: diy guns

  • vortic
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    411 months ago

    I was going to ask if this had a chance of working. Reading the article you posted convinced me that, whether this one actually worked or not, it is certainly possible to make a working firearm from a stapler and some scrap metal. That’s pretty neat, a little scary, and leaves me wondering why more people don’t do this. Why aren’t there gangs using these?

    • Auk
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      11 months ago

      For something like the pictured gun you’re probably not getting much more in the way of accurate range than just holding a knife, and a knife would be a lot more reliable.

      I would also assume that if you can get hold of ammunition to load an improvised gun it’s not that much more of a stretch to acquire an actual gun to put said ammo into.

    • @CADmonkey
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      211 months ago

      Because it’s easier to find a car covered in 2A stickers and pictures of AR15’s and steal the guns out of it.