Zip guns / improvised firearms – part 4 (South America 2)

 

 

Zip guns / improvised firearms – part 1

Zip guns / improvised firearms – part 2 (South America)

Zip guns / improvised firearms – part 3 (Staplers…)

Homemade semi auto pistols – part 3 (China )

Below are a large variety of locally produced self-loading pistols seized across The People’s Republic of China and Taiwan. Many are produced by illicit gunsmiths in rural villages inside Guizhou province.

Illicit production in process:

Airsoft pistol hybridization:

Homemade semi-auto pistols – part 1 (Vietnamese copies)

Homemade semi auto pistols – part 2 (Russia / Europe)

 

Homemade submachine guns – part 4 (Brazil 2)

Homemade submachine guns – part 1 (Brazil)

Homemade submachine guns – part 2 (Middle East)

Homemade submachine guns – part 3 (Australia)

 

 

Zip guns / improvised firearms – part 3 (Staplers…)

A peer reviewed forensic analysis of weaponized stapler engineering developments

 

Homemade semi auto pistols – part 2 (Russia / Europe)

Desert Eagle .50 copy.

A handmade copy of the Tokarev TT33 pistol.

A Handmade Glock look-alike pistol , it’s lower suspected to be molded from sawdust mixed with epoxy to form a crude composite over a skeleton frame. Rather than having a spring loaded pin, it utilizes a small concealed hammer. Chambered in 9 x18 Makarov.

 

 

A couple of hobbyist made examples from the USA:

Bill Holmes homework shop pistol design.

 

Zip guns / improvised firearms – part 2 (South America)

Crude examples mostly seized in Brazil and Argentina.

Mario and Luigi.

A traditionally crafted gas pump handle bandito boomstick.

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Homemade submachine guns – part 3 (Australia)

Designs based on the Expedient Homemade Firearms series of manuals by P.A Luty.

 

.22lr machine pistols:

 

 

M11 type copies:

 

The Sub Machine Gun from Home workshop Guns for Defence And Resistence by Bill Holmes:

Video – Homemade Luty MKII Machine Pistol test fired by WA police

 

Homemade semi-auto pistols – part 1 (Vietnamese copies)

Examples manufactured locally for guerrilla fighters during the Vietnam war:

Viet Cong .45 ACP ‘1911’ type copy: