Message no. 1

From:	Dark Steel seattle2052@*******.com
Subject:	Gun manufacturing, the LoTech approach [was: Thunderbolts: How you might
Date:	Tue, 24 Aug 1999 19:40:19 PDT

>Instead of something complex like a burst fire pistol, what would it
>require to make cheap simple firearms, if say a barrens gang decided
>one weekend that they wanted to tackle this sort of Do-It-Yourself
>project? Nothing complex like a semi-auto or anything, maybe bolt
>action at the most complex.
>
>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?
>
>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?
>
>Essentially, what I'm going for, is the theme of "technology falling
>to the level of the street".
>
The bolt action I would be easier on and all the rest I'd allow if they just
made a simple standard skill roll. (Jesus Christ on a crutch, a zip gun?) I
might even let a zip gun swing on a intelligence roll.


DS
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