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  2. Philip Luty - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Improvised firearm - Wikipedia

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    A homemade pistol, confiscated by the Swedish Police. Given to the Museum of Vänersborg in 1985. Improvised firearms (sometimes called zip guns, pipe guns, or slam guns) are firearms manufactured by an entity other than a registered firearms manufacturer or a gunsmith. Improvised firearms are typically constructed by adapting existing ...

  4. Clutter fence - Wikipedia

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    A clutter fence is a device used with some radar systems to limit unwanted reflections from nearby objects reaching the receiver. These reflections could generate false or confusing data , obfuscating objects the radar is intended to detect. A clutter fence is normally constructed from conventional metal fencing material.

  5. What we know about the crude, homemade gun used in ... - AOL

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    The weapon is far cruder than guns considered homemade in the United States, including 3-D-printed firearms and lower receivers assembled in metal shops.

  6. A surge of illegal homemade machine guns has helped fuel gun ...

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    “It takes two or three seconds to put in some of these devices into a firearm to make that firearm into a machine gun instantly,” Dettelbach said. Between 2012 and 2016, police departments in ...

  7. Homemade firearm - Wikipedia

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    A homemade firearm, also called a ghost gun or privately made firearm, is a firearm made by a private individual, in contrast to one produced by a corporate or government entity. [1] The term ghost gun is used mostly in the United States by gun control advocates, but it is being adopted by gun rights advocates and the firearm industry.

  8. Western Electric M-33 Antiaircraft Fire Control System

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    In 1944, the US Army contracted [7] for an electronic "computer with guns, a tracking radar, plotting boards and communications equipment" (M33C & M33D models used different subassemblies for 90 & 120 mm gun/ammunition ballistics.) [3] The "trial model predecessor" (T-33) was used as late as 1953, [8] and the production M33 (each $383,000 in 1954 dollars) [9] had been deployed in 1950. [10]

  9. Category:Gun laying radars - Wikipedia

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    Radar, Gun Laying, Mk. I and Mk. II; S. SCR-268 radar; SCR-584 radar; SCR-784 Radar; Super Fledermaus; W. Western Electric M-33 Antiaircraft Fire Control System ...