Divine Angel said:

I keep thinking about the Columbine shooters. Denied guns on their own, they enlisted an older friend to purchase guns from a gun show. Nowadays one can 3D print a weapon with instructions from the internet. Most pf them are probably pretty flimsy, but I have heard of ones capable of firing bullets.

Then of course is the dark web and friend-of-a-friend’s cousin’s roommate who can obtain guns.

Yeah, you might be ble to make your own gun. Some are not that difficult

I did once see (not in Australia) an example of an M3 submachine gun, which is not a complicated bit of gear:

which had been knocked up in a machine shop in a homemade sort of way.

Orginal design was a .45 gun, but this one had been made for 9mm bullets. It was pretty well made, and i had no doubt that it would work well.

But, it’s a lot harder to manufacture your own ammunition from scratch. Guns without bullets are no more lethan than any other blunt object.

Could more be done on that front?