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Summary: Good but room for improvement...
Review: First off, let me just say much respect to Mr. Luty. The fact that he went to prison over this book tells us more than we think. This is a good book and is probably better than most, if not all, "do it yourself" gun guides on the market (but I haven't read many). It doesn't require a whole machinist workshop, it doesn't require a lot of money, and the weapon could be produced in bulk if necessary. I haven't built it yet, so some of that could prove untrue. I don't think Mr. Luty has lied to us though. If you want details on durability, accuracy, etc., you're going to have to ask someone who has built it. I would assume that any problems with the gun Mr. Luty did not cover could be easily solved. Now, this book is not really a laymen's guide to building a submachine gun, but as I said, it does not require a lot. If you have some good experience with tools, you will have no problems. Geez, if you had Shop in high school, you probably won't struggle much. Me? Nah, the ATF can breathe one more sigh of relief. I'd probably drill holes in my fingers before I got anywhere near the lower receiver! Don't get me wrong, anyone can do this but I suggest you have someone with a decent amount of workshop experience around if you're not familiar with the tools or materials. I opened the book, looked at the tools and on a few, I just went "huh?" Coming from a family of carpenters, I suspect they would be ashamed. Meh, maybe they would just be ashamed to know I had the book. It's a moot point though. So if you have some experience with building things, specifically out of steel tubes, you can probably build this. If you know what a countersink tool is... ehhh... you're ahead of me. The bottom line is that if you think you can build the thing, you probably can (for display only and with the proper licenses, of course). Oh, and thankfully there IS a picture of the finished product and it DOES look pretty cool, if you ask me.
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Summary: just hard to find materials
Review: I found out the book satisfactory.Gun easy to built & require a lot of patience to complete project. Buy the book if you live in an industrialized country because mat'ls(materials) are easily obtained in such locations. Buy it for educatonal, refference or experimental purpose only. ABC
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Summary: good book
Review: I found out the book satisfactory.Gun easy to built & require a lot of patience to complete project. Buy the book if you live in an industrialized country because mat'ls(materials) are easily obtained in such locations. Buy it for educatonal, refference or experimental purpose only. ABC
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Summary: Good Book!
Review: I gave this book 4 stars because it is not complete in certain parts. Fortunately I bought the Do-It-Yourself Submachine Gun Book from Gerard Metral from a Shop here in Brasil (Actually I bought those books, because a civilian war is iminent here in Rio de Janeiro, and Brasil now have laws prohibiting the selling of Weapons). Well, the Expedient Homemade Firearms is complete with the aquisition of Do-It-Yourself Submachine Gun book, because this book covers important steps that the Expedient Homemade Firearms doesn't cover, like the Parkerization Process, Handgrip manufature and some most technical details. If you wanna make your weapon, buy both books, focus on building the weapon explained in the Expedient Homemade Firearms, and add to it the important details described on Do-It-Yourself book.
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Summary: a great book
Review: i have read the other reviews on this book and i must say that i agree with most of them... however i did read one that said something about mr.Luty not giving enough information on the finish work of this gun, and to that i have to say"its an expedient firearm for self defence in areas where you otherwise would not be able to procure a gun legally or for within your budget! its not supposed to be the most beautiful piece around, its just supposed to reliably spray lead!" sheesh i dont know about anyone else out there but the last time you were in a situation that called for a real need to use a firearm, did you stop to show your attacker the detailing on your grip? i reccomend this book wholeheartedly to anyone, and especially to those in need. ANYONE COULD BUILD THIS GUN IF THEY TRIED! and if you say that it cant be done, then you're a lazy retard!
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Summary: Comment form spain, web and photos
Review: i'm a spanish customer, i bought this book last summer and i'm making this gun.you can see the photographs and more comments at es.geocities.com/subfusil_asalto/
.this book is very good and very very easy to do.
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Summary: the #%&!
Review: Ok this book takes you step by step through making the 9mm youl love it so easy to make that i all ready had all the parts at home buy this book if you want a effective close range machinegun and no it is not hard to make as other reviewers have said they just are mentaly defective they were proberly born with downsindrome. poor fat little mental patients.buy this book and learn to make your first machinegun enjoy.
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Summary: Best book on really improvised weapons ever. True. Why?
Review: On this amazing volume, you'll find the most fascinating book on the subject that, really, tells it all. Don't get me wrong: I have all the books from Master Gunsmith Bill Holmes, as well as anything on the subject of home-building firearms. But be sure you'll need a complete small shop at least to make even a single-shot falling-block pistol or rifle. No place for amateurs there. But there are times when "Average Joe" need combat weapons to survive in bad times. I have seen it before. I'm a former special-operations officer with 16 years of service in my country's intelligence agency (something like a "mix" of CIA/FBI/Secret Service, now defunct), and I have done years of overseas "contractor" work... I've been in five major guerrilla wars (Angola, Mozambique, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Lebanon), and alt. I had previous experience with all kinds of land-warfare weapons, sometimes you need a gun and can not get one, even in a land in War. Old warriors never die (they only go to Hell to regroup), and I even ask some "insiders" on contrating me to work in Iraq, earlier this year, as a "security advisor", but they find me too fat & unfit to be of use in there... a close friend, former Royal Marine and veteran of Northern Ireland and Malvinas/Falklands, who lived in another big town here, go there, and now is doing what he was trained for... and alt. in all wars we once fought we can get any ammount of firearms, ammo, support weapons, you name it, there was a lack of combat weapons to the common citizens there, who are not a "Soldiers-of-Fortune" like I was. If I had this amazing book with me on "my wars" back in the '80's, I could have helped hundreds of indigenous guys survive "their" Wars,and so I could have done things in a better, faster, more funny way, if you can get what I'm talking about. I love the idea of making weapons with simple, common, cheap tools & parts, weapons that can be a life-saving tool in dark times. Be sure that these cheap guns are as capable in short-time combat as the most expensive military guns ever avaiable and they are at anyone's reach - even without any experience in this field. If you want real weapons, this is the book for you. This book tells all the "secrets" in a way it CAN be put into practice. It's author is a Paladin of Freedom. Buy this book - you'll love it!
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Summary: A great read
Review: This book is a great read overall. It explains how to make a 9mm SMG with only a few tools and pieces of metal. It covers all parts: receiver, barrel, breeh/bolt, springs, magazine, etc. The author also spends a lot of time describing how to make certain improvised tools necessary for construction (like a form to make springs for the magazine, modifying a reamer to chamber the barrel). The end product described has a smooth-bore barrel. I think the hardest part would be finding small quantities of the different size and shapes of metal tubing and finding and modifying the right sized reamer for making the chamber. One annoying thing about this book is that the measurements keeping changing back and forth between millimeters and inches. Otherwise, this book is entertaining and informative. I'd recommend it to anyone with an interest in the subject.
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Summary: Great book !
Review: This book is the best i have read on the subject of homemade firearms. It is written from the standpoint that no gunsmithing supplies are available.The gun is constructed from tubing and hardware products with a good deal of inginuity and inventivness. If you are interested in homemade fireams this is the book. I can also recommend the authors website,which is well worth a look at www.thehomegunsmith.com.
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