captain_spalding said:

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?

that’s called an ied