...because it is the only thing between you and a police state.
...and, someday, you may need a gun to get a gun.
Claimer: Study this. Someday, you may very much want to make something like this. Between terrorists with agendas and governments with suspect motives, at least you can rely on yourself.
"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will find themselves plowing for those who didn't."
Anyway, the story was something like this, as I recall.
The regional office of the national police for some Asian country needed to translate some technical documents from English to their native language. They called upon an American man who was well-known to them and had assisted them in the past on a volunteer basis. After a day of converting difficult English into simple English for the official translator, the senior inspectors and managers took the American man out for a nice dinner and a night of drinking strong alcohol as was their custom.
At some point, the topic of conversation turned to gun control. The police were quick to explain there was little gun crime in ther country because there were no guns. The American man felt it was due to a culture difference. He felt that, unlike America, local culture did not find it "cool" to show off a gun. He further felt that there were, in fact, many "illegal" guns in private hands, based on well-known incidents where they had been stolen from the military or police. These guns, however, had never surfaced in any crime becaue the national culture found it unthinkable to actually use a gun in a crime. The American man also stated that it didn't matter how many laws there were, people could always buld a gun if needed. The police were shocked that such a respected and educated American man could say something so foolish. They insisted that it was simply not possible to build a gun. The American man shocked them even more when he said it could be done for less than twenty dollars in locally available parts and only handtools were needed.
Finaly, the American man asked if he could build the gun there in the resturaunt while they sat around drinking. Alcohol had been flowing all night so it seemed perfectly reasonable to start a minor construction project after the dishes were cleared. The resturaunt even supplied a cordless drill, a screwdriver and a saw. The police assured the American man he would not be arrested because, of course, it was impossible to construct a gun.
So the American man spent 10 minutes running to the corner hardware store where he spent about $8 and came back with a bag of parts. After scrounging a few things from a trash pile, he got started. All of the police and resturaunt workers watched carefully while the American man drilled and screwed and sawed for about 15 minutes.
When it was done, the police looked at him stupidly. It did SEEM to be a gun. And his explanation of its operation did make sense. Finaly, in a haze of alcohol, one senior inspector found the weakness. There were no bullets. At that point, the American man, expecting this, pulled some .25 cal nailgun blanks from his pocket along with some ball bearings.
Now, the police were interested. Being that it was late and nobody else was in the resturaunt, the police decided they wanted to shoot the gun. The American man felt that, without doing a little math first, it was unwise to shoot the gun due to the unknown pressure that might be reached, therefore making it into an equally illegal bomb instead of a gun. He did feel it was safe to fire blanks.
So, the night progressed with the national police passing a homemade gun around the table and shooting a blank into the air... which, of course, progressed into shooting little balls of wet paper (more like a shotgun) and a stray .23 cal (or so) plastic bead (which made a hole in the wall and shattered into something between Dust and Powder). The cute and young waitresses were quite impressed and lined up to fire the first (and only) gun in their lives. The 40 and 50 year-old inspectors were more than happy to reach around them and help hold the gun while they shot.
Talk of banning nailgun blanks was moot when the American explained how to electrically fire matchhead shavings in a thimble with a fine piece of coper wire and a D battery.
The gun may reside at the national police academy where it is used as a training aid.
