gunDriller
14th November 2014, 01:10 PM
Philippino Gunsmiths Respect Laws of Physics - as opposed to man-made pseudo laws.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-13/farmers-copying-guns-at-home-make-philippines-deadlier-than-u-s-.html
Made me feel good to hear they're gunsmithing all over the country.
Sells a Functional .45 for $133.
"Hidden beneath tarpaulins in the backyard of a house in the central Philippine city of Danao, Lito puts the finishing touches on a replica .45-caliber Colt Officer’s Model pistol. It will join the more than 600,000 illegal guns in circulation in a country where the homicide rate outstrips the U.S.
The money he makes from guns supplements his income as a farmer and helped Lito, 52, send two children to college. Still, he thinks often of the suffering that may come from a craft he learned from an uncle and older brother.
“I worry that the firearms I make may be ending up in the wrong hands,” said Lito, a soft-spoken man dressed in loose jeans and slippers, who asked not to be identified in full given the nature of his work. “If there were other opportunities, I will stop making guns.”
Lito, who will sell the pistol that took him a month to make for 6,000 pesos ($133) -- about three-quarters of the monthly minimum wage -- is one of 6,000 illegal gunmakers the Danao government is seeking to regulate. City officials want to move them into legalized factories before demand for illicit firearms picks up ahead of nationwide elections in 2016 in a country with a history of vote-related violence. Fifty eight people were slain in a massacre six months before the May 2010 elections."
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-13/farmers-copying-guns-at-home-make-philippines-deadlier-than-u-s-.html
Made me feel good to hear they're gunsmithing all over the country.
Sells a Functional .45 for $133.
"Hidden beneath tarpaulins in the backyard of a house in the central Philippine city of Danao, Lito puts the finishing touches on a replica .45-caliber Colt Officer’s Model pistol. It will join the more than 600,000 illegal guns in circulation in a country where the homicide rate outstrips the U.S.
The money he makes from guns supplements his income as a farmer and helped Lito, 52, send two children to college. Still, he thinks often of the suffering that may come from a craft he learned from an uncle and older brother.
“I worry that the firearms I make may be ending up in the wrong hands,” said Lito, a soft-spoken man dressed in loose jeans and slippers, who asked not to be identified in full given the nature of his work. “If there were other opportunities, I will stop making guns.”
Lito, who will sell the pistol that took him a month to make for 6,000 pesos ($133) -- about three-quarters of the monthly minimum wage -- is one of 6,000 illegal gunmakers the Danao government is seeking to regulate. City officials want to move them into legalized factories before demand for illicit firearms picks up ahead of nationwide elections in 2016 in a country with a history of vote-related violence. Fifty eight people were slain in a massacre six months before the May 2010 elections."