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Making arms in the Khyber Pass
An interesting video on how Afghans make firearms by taking blanks of steel and filing away everything that doesn't look like a gun. Looks like they achieve high quality. And they have better gun handling techniques than the US interviewer.
Also shown are their other inventories. Lewis guns, Lugers, British muskets. They could probably make a better living selling those (apart from the Lewis) to American collectors. I suspect the shop owner, if told that those old muskets could bring a thousand on the American market, and the Lugers that much or several times it, wouldn't hesitate very long.
Hat tip to reader Alice Beard...
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You're telling me they make the guns by hand and then take the trouble to inscribe "made by norinco" on the side of them?
Actually, Jim, they do - because that's what it said on the side of the gun they're cloning..:-)
That video is several years old, incidentally.
Liberals think it's too hard to actually build guns in a garage. In England they think it's too hard to build knives by hand. Where do we get such brilliant people.
Re the "norinco", a friend who worked in Afghanistan in the '50s and '60s brought back a hand-made knock-off of pocket automatic, slightly crude in fit and finish but almost indistinguishable except that it said "25mm" where it should have said ".25 cal."
Personally, I'd love to have a Lewis gun.
Can't imagine why Americans would ever need to or want to go to this place. Oh wait.. Bin Laden is there somewhere.
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Fascinating. I couldn't help but note the reporter handles what appears to be a Luger, and says "Nazi gun... pure evil in my hand".
Sigh.