Only in Texas

[syringis]

I found this. Please tell me it is not true. Tell me it is photoshopped.

[Wwcd]

1. Well, there's probably one of these at every gun range in the country.

Its their bullet humor.

Kinda takes the wincing sting away from the thought of someone hunting down American school children

Sick, huh.

[rownesheck]

2. I'm sure it's true.

I just found out people make their own bullets at home! What?! There is so much i don't know about gun nut culture, and the more i learn, the more my hatred for it solidifies.

On a side note, i used to work for a redneck regional grocery chain in Texas, and we sold bullets at the register!!! I was so pissed when they put those in. Not kidding, d-bags would come in bragging about how many rounds of ammo they had. Some had 10s of thousands of rounds! Nut balls, all of them!

[Igel]

3. There are two stages to home bullet making.

The first option is you buy the powder, cast the bullets, and reuse the brass. It's just simple reloading. It's cheaper and fairly easy. Also lets you reuse the brass from your last shoot. A lot of muzzle-loader owners cast their own bullets and miniballs.

The second let's you custom-make the powder you put in your bullets. Knew a guy who mixed up several batches of powder at once, loaded carefully calibrated rounds, and then tested them on a range that gave muzzle velocity and speed just before impact. He was trying to optimize the load for each of his firearms. Kept meticulous records in the form of a log book for what he did in the garage and what the effect was for each load and firearm at the range.


I knew preppers a few years ago and survivalists back in the late '70s or early '80s. They spent lots of money on stuff for surviving the apocalypse. What happened is that some of the stuff went bad--too much food, stored incorrectly. Ultimately a lot of it was a kind of anti-inflationary hedge because they eventually worked through their stockpiles of whatever it was. Perhaps ammunition, perhaps canned chicken soup.

[nil desperandum]

4. Some

even make their own firearms...

It's quite easy to make a simple 9mm sub machine gun.

Completely illegal of course but someone with minimal technical skills can create this weapon at home from simple off the shelf parts, none of which require a purchase at a gun store.

The weapon below was hand built and fully automatic. It fires 9mm pistol rounds on full auto. It's actually a very well made home made weapon. They don't have to be this pretty. The second image shows a less well built sub machine gun, again none of these are made from parts made by gun manufacturers.