The whole firearm was constructed by hand from steel tubing, shaft lock
collars and a few nuts and bolts!
‘SPECIFICATIONS’
Weapon Type - Machine Pistol
Action - Open bolt fully automatic
Calibre - .32/.380
Capacity - 16/14
OAL - 18 ¾
Barrel Length - 9"
Weight unloaded - 4lbs 9oz
Sights - None
Safety - None
Construction materials - Tube, Collars, Nuts and Bolts
Material availability - Good
Tools required - Hand only
Purpose - Home underground manufacture for defence and resistance
Opposite you can see a schematic diagram of the machine gun.
Please click the picture to zoom in.
TUBE SIZES
The tube sizes shown below are those required to construct the major
component parts for the expedient machine pistol, i.e. receivers, barrel,
magazine and breech block etc.
The ERW (Electric Resistance Welded) tubing is very useful for the
construction of receivers and magazine, or as sleeving to reinforce or
increase the diameter of another tube. It should not be used as gun
barrelling - unless nothing else is available - due to its welded-seam
construction. The SMT (Seemless Mechanical Tube) is ideal for improvised
gun barrels. Because of the many different tube sizes available, it is
possible to construct a barrel to suit almost any calibre of firearm.
Where possible, heavy-gauge tube should be used for barrel or a lighter
gauge suitably reinforced with a second tube or steel collars. While
many tubes will be of perfectly adequate strength on their own, it is
only common sense to make the tube as strong as possible, providing the
design of the gun will allow it.
