Neat, I would’ve assumed you’d need a mill or a lathe, not just a drill press. Link to instructions?
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TIEPilot@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoI 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.
grue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
grue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Guess I ought to go find a set of machining schematics.
TIEPilot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
TIEPilot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Shovel AK is a thing too. There are stencils out there for it.
TIEPilot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Gah how can I forget about the shovel AK???
tomiant@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
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.
TIEPilot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No its not illegal:
www.atf.gov/firearms/privately-made-firearms
You can’t make a machine gun or other items on the NFA list though. Well you can but thats lawyers, paperwork, a good reason, oh yeah a whole tome of money…
An homemade AR15 is completely legal to be made at the federal level.
The rest of your comment is off base.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure that’s already illegal in CA
TIEPilot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think at this point it easier to list what isn’t illegal in California.
tomiant@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
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!
TIEPilot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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?