@drgo ...and muskets can be used with actual gunpowder, which is a lot easier to make from scratch than smokeless powder.
@pete @drgo DIY smokeless is in the works though. Twitter accounts @cathode_g and @freegunzone are experimenting with DIY berkeland-eyde reactors for the nitric acid and then making nitrocellulose. Here are the files for Cathode's reactor. https://keybase.pub/cathode/Birkeland-Eyde%20and%20nitrocellulose(WIP)/
@DickForgetsHeRunsServices @alan8325 @drgo Though these days electric ignition is a potential replacement for primers:
https://www.forgottenweapons.com/remington-etronx-electrically-primed-ammunition-video/
@pete @alan8325 @drgo I'm familiar but no one is gonna integrate that into pop's AR.
Maybe for a single shot self defense handgun it'd be a good choice because some kanthal wire and a match head will do wonders for making shit easily accessed; but at that point you can just do your own primer anvil if you have the room to make your own cartridge.
@DickForgetsHeRunsServices @alan8325 @drgo There's probably a way to use existing brass bullets with the primer removed. Eg with a pin that projects into the bullet, and driven with high enough voltage to generate a spark.
With a tungsten electrode from a welder no reason why it wouldn't be able to do thousands of shots.
@DickForgetsHeRunsServices @alan8325 @drgo The funny thing about this is "a lot of work" is relative: I'd much rather put that work into something I know - electronics - than something I don't - chemistry. :)
@DickForgetsHeRunsServices @alan8325 @drgo The interesting question will be at what point does the government start cracking down on electronics and machining/3d printing supplies?
@DickForgetsHeRunsServices @alan8325 @drgo Got an example?
I used to have an ITAR clearance myself. But that was for a job working with _much_ more specialized equipment (IMU's with good enough specs to do ICBM guidance, and a gravity gradiometer).
@DickForgetsHeRunsServices @alan8325 @drgo Speaking of, those IMU's were a hilarious example of the failures of regulation: when ITAR was introduced, only "friendly" countries could make them.
But due to how ITAR works, if you can make do with a Russian IMU, you'd much rather buy a foreign one than comply with all the paperwork required to buy ones from "friendly" countries... Supposedly Iran businesses were even trying to get into the precision IMU business, with commercial sales as the goal!
@pete @DickForgetsHeRunsServices @drgo I would hope that once there are regulations placed on stepper motors and 3D printer filament at that point almost everyone would see the government as illegitimate. But I've been surprised at how much people like the taste of boot.
@alan8325 @DickForgetsHeRunsServices @drgo Note how it's much easier to stomach aggressive regulations on tech used to build things when you've off-shored all your industry...
@pete @DickForgetsHeRunsServices @drgo Especially when the majority of the voting population doesn't build things and vetting is politically popular. "Why shouldn't someone who wants to order stepper motors be required to show that they work at a legitimate manufacturing business that uses such equipment?"
@alan8325 @DickForgetsHeRunsServices @drgo Well, specifically, there's a lot more people on the right who are involved in building things than on the left. Even at the arts university - which had extensive fabrication shops and machine tools - the people who did more of that leaned right, relatively speaking.
@pete @alan8325 @drgo technically they already have been; for quite some time.