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I made an AR15 with a hobby drill press from Lowes at work. Give me a hunk of metal, a micrometer and a file and I can make you a gun.
Or worse.
I'm pretty sure that's already illegal in CA
I think at this point it easier to list what isn't illegal in California.
Are the laws sound and moral? That's the only important metric, it doesn't matter how many laws you have. It's not like you go, oh shit, we have to keep it under a hundred thousand so now we can't make new laws around AI data centers because that's just too many!
lol you again, who decides whats "moral"?
And WTF are you bringing data centers into a post about 3D printing and California's draconian laws?
Neat, I would've assumed you'd need a mill or a lathe, not just a drill press. Kinda want to know how to do it myself, since I own the former but not either of the latter.
The upper reciever is the load bearing part on an Armalite, but it's also not the regulated part. The lower receiver is, and all you need for that is a box that holds the trigger components in vaguely the right place, a hole that lines up the magazine, a hole to stick the buffer tube into at the back, and some way to nail the upper receiver to it.
You could carve an AR lower out of wood if you were dedicated enough.
Guess I ought to go find a set of machining schematics.
If you're near me I'll loan you the gig, the end mills,and support to make an AR lower in about 2 hours.
Please explain how I can "do literally anything productive with my life" when I'm murdered by MAGA fascists because I had no means to defend myself.
I don't own a gun, actually. Your assumption is bad and you should feel bad.
I am doing nothing but thinking about ensuring my ability to obtain one, should the political situation continue to deteriorate. That's prudent, not delusional.
The only one here acting obsessive and unhinged is you.
No worries we will.
Now I want to teach people how to make AR lowers, I love you!
It won't be accurate or be a long baller w/o a lathe to make a rifled barrel. Not that you couldn't mke a barrel with hand tools, it just would be very difficult.
And like others have said, only the lower receiver is the controlled item. You goto Brownels and can buy 98% of an AR w/o a background check.
Shovel AK is a thing too. There are stencils out there for it.
Gah how can I forget about the shovel AK????
And that is illegal, as it should be. The efficacy of a law has nothing to do with whether it's moral.
It's like saying "we don't have the manpower to police murder effectively, so we are gonna legalize murder". It's a fundamental misunderstanding of what the law is fucking for.
No its not illegal:
https://www.atf.gov/firearms/privately-made-firearms
You can't make a machine gun or other items on the NFA list though.
A homemade AR15 is completely legal to be made at the federal level.
The rest of your comment is off base.
lol ok...