Reply #201: Submachine guns can be made in a basement

[krispos42]

Open-bolt submachine guns like the Uzi, the Sten, and the M3 "Grease Gun" are made from a maximum of stamped, punched, and welded parts and a minimum of machined parts. The simplicity and reliability of these guns is impressive, they are fully-automatic only, and made for spraying pistol bullets at close range targets.

One guy in San Quentin made a .32-caliber repeating pistol out of the prison workshop using plumbing fittings.

I'm thinking that a cottage industry in illegally-made SMGs might emerge if needed.