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Improvised firearms were used by the perpetrator of the Halle synagogue shooting; the homemade shotgun and "Luty" submachine gun repeatedly malfunctioned. The attacker, an antisemitic neo-Nazi terrorist, said while livestreaming the attack, "I have certainly managed to prove how absurd improvised weapons are."
Philip Andrew Luty (19 October 1964 – 8 April 2011) was an English activist opposing gun control, who was notable for the production of homemade firearms and manuals providing instruction at the same time. He was charged with illegal arms construction in the late 1990s and sentenced to four years in prison, with other investigations ongoing ...
The Błyskawica (Polish: 'lightning') was a submachine gun [1] produced by the Armia Krajowa, or Home Army, a Polish resistance movement fighting the Germans in occupied Poland. [1] Together with a Polish version of the Sten sub-machine gun, with which it shares some design elements, it was the only weapon mass-produced covertly in occupied ...
The Carlo's homemade nature makes it affordable on the black market, where it is purchased not only by Palestinians targeting Israelis [6] but also by Arab-Israeli gangs. [4] The Carlo is cheap and requires little skill or equipment to manufacture, but it is inaccurate and prone to jamming and misfire.
These changes and documentation honor the mutual influence of Defense Distributed's Liberator and Philip Luty's even earlier SMG designs. [13] Cross section of the FGC-9 design. The FGC-9 is designed with Europeans in mind; fasteners and build materials use the metric standard and are available from hardware stores.
The Pleter submachine gun is a submachine gun created in 1991, when the Breakup of Yugoslavia left Croatia with few weapons to arm their yet to be formed military in the midst of the Croatian War of Independence. The embargo prevented the newly formed state from legally buying equipment abroad, so they chose to try to design and produce some ...
The Borz was initially a clone of the Armenian K6-92, [4] which itself was loosely based on the Soviet PPS submachine gun. However, individual models can vary greatly, since the Borz is neither a single model of weapon, nor made by a particular weapon manufacturer, but a common name for all Chechen hand-made submachine guns with some similarity ...
DUX submachine gun: Oviedo Military Arsenal 9×19mm Parabellum Spain: 1953 SMG EDDA submachine gun: Only one prototype made .22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire Argentina: 1970s SMG EMP 44: Erma Werke: 9×19mm Parabellum Germany: 1944 SMG Erma EMP: Erma Werke: 9×19mm Parabellum 9×23mm Largo 7.63×25mm Mauser Germany: 1931 SMG ETVS submachine gun