Junk Yard Dog wrote:I think a few members have made their own from parts kits, I recall something about it from several years back.
There are a few places that sell the tools to make some fine ones. But the tools aren't necessary. They just help.
You really can use a few piece of flat iron and angle iron plus some bolts to make the jig, then hammer the receiver into shape with a 2x4.
Set the rivets with a ball peen hammer.
Probably wouldn't last more than a few months of heavy use, but by then chief mumbo-jumbo might very well be out of power and you could have your guys set up a proper factory.
I was astonished at how simple it was. Now, turning the barrel, machining the trigger group, you might have trouble making those parts in a jungle or a mountain cave. But if you can get the parts there a decent jr high school shop class can make good AKs.
"The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Not yet anyway.
