FrankTrollman wrote:Every time anyone brings up gun control measures of any kind, someone brings up the stupid idea that they wouldn't work because people could do elaborate home manufacture of firearms or some shit. And you know what? That's a stupid idea. An obviously discredited idea.
The reality is that people don't go out and make zip guns. Sure, they could, but they fucking don't. The vast, vast majority of people who get firearms do so because they are fucking idiots who think that guns make them safe or cool. These are not shadowrunners who forge their own screws like Ted Kaczynski to get around the wandering eyes of Big Brother.
This may shock you, but installing a new receiver into a firearm isn't that hard. It can vary on the model, of course, but firearm manufacturers do sell them by themselves. People make rifles from parts all the damn time.
AR-15 lower receivers
AK-47 lower receivers
Installing that receiver into a firearm is like, maybe an hour of work assuming you have the rest of your easily purchased parts. No manufacturing of raw materials needed.
Combine one of the brand new receivers you bought, and you can then combine them with kits:
AK-47 part kit
(I had trouble finding an apple to apples comparison with an AR-15, but that's because their components are sold piecemeal everywhere.)
Let's say you don't want to buy an actual receiver from a store, due to reasons. Got options there: 80% lowers or full on fabrication.
AR-15 80% lower
AK 80% lowers
An 80% receiver is a partially manufactured firearm receiver, but isn't legally a firearm until the remaining 20% is completed. Typically requires a bit of drilling, cutting, folding, etc but no hard to do, especially if you find a build party in your area.
Finishing 80% AR-15 receiver
Finishing 80% AK receiver
The proposed bill would have result in a lot of people saying "Fuck it" and doing as it says, but the it is trivial to work around it for anybody that bothered.