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Message no. 1
From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: Gun manufacturing, the LoTech approach
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:32:21 +0200
According to runnerpaul@*****.com, at 0:13 on 24 Aug 99, the word on
the street was...

> For example, would it be possible to, oh, say make a single-shot
> shotguns out of some lengths of the correct gauge steel pipe, some
> shells, and some sort of spring trigger? I know range would suck, and
> accuracy would be right out, but would such a thing be possible? Or
> would it just blow up in the user's hands?

Shouldn't be too hard. The most complex part to build would be the firing
mechanism, but even that shouldn't be too hard if you've got some
materials and tools. Certainly it should be possible to build a weapon
like this, though There should be a much larger chance than normal for
misfires and explosions, IMHO -- call it an explosion if all dice roll 1,
and a misfire if no die rolls higher than 2.

> Also would the old decker's trick of using a control slave operation
> to change what a computer-aided-manufacturing production line
> produces work for making some simple gun parts?

That should equally be possible, I'd say. What you need mainly are the
machinery and the right kind of plans that you can use to program the CAM-
machines. For a quality weapon, you also need high-grade materials, of
course, but if you want a simple, throwaway gun, it only needs to be
strong enough to resist firing a few times.

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