Reminds me of a father and son in (Porto Rico or brasil ??) thta make copies of colt 45's in a damn grass hut using scrap metal and all done by hand - approx 3-4wks per pistol which they then sell to the cartels / local gangs for usd450.00. They even test fire them. It was on vice iirc.
People don't realize the resources they have all around them, just laying there waiting to be used, every day. My great uncle Walter used to send us kids out walking with buckets along the coal train tracks now and then, collecting the the good black anthracite coal that fell off the coal trains that came through several times a day. We also picked up any scrap steel left from the track repairs, like spikes, footer plates, etc. He would then take these out to his forge and turn them into useful things. I saw him turn a pile of old railroad spikes into a complete eight setting dining set (forks, spoons and knives) for my great aunt Betsy for Christmas. That's where I learned.
I saw a video of them doing it in the Philippines in a little grass hut. It only took them a few days to have a working .45 semi auto.
Oh wait , that's it i think. Lol im way out on the specifics then - i saw it awhile ago. Fairly certain the price was $450 tho. A few days/ 3 or 4 weeks ??, i guess at point whatdoesitmatter.
Found it: 12 hours a day a father and his 2 sons can make 5 handguns a month for $115 each. So roughly 6 days a gun with no days off. Mainly 1911’s.
As another poster stated, you only need a couple of rounds to get someone else’s. I don’t think these would last more then 100 rounds top.
Maybe it was time lapsed but they had it built and racking the slide and test during it really quickly.
The only reason I remember it is be my sister is from the Philippines and had a rice business and I was joking about if she knew of a village where I could send money to start up my own gun import operation.
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