@FBM,
FBM wrote:BillRM wrote:I am all for stopping the so call war on drug and therefore stop funding arm criminal gangs inside the US and outside the US.
That step alone would cut the murder rate worldwide down however with 300 millions guns in the US the idea of having a war on so call illegal guns would be as pointless as the drug war had been.
Yeah. Instead of hydroponics or meth labs in basements, there'd be milling tools producing Sten guns. The hardest part would be making the barrels, and that's not even very hard these days.
If it I am remembering correctly, the Sten was less than reliable.
The original AK-47 was designed so it could be made in a basic machine shop. It would surely take longer to make than a Sten, but would be a much better product.
However, I think both are bad options, because any covert manufacture of guns will also require covert manufacture of ammo. And full-autos use a lot of ammo.
Covert gun manufacturing would do much better if they made the equivalent of sawed-off double-barrel shotguns, as the ammo would not only be easier to make, but the guns would use much less of it.