We can make most of a gun with a cnc and a blank - and a barrel. Blanks are hard, barrels are harder. You can freely buy blanks and barrels now, but when things hit the fan, we will need the capability to make blanks and barrels.
You want a .22 with pistol with a small but adequate barrel, in order to fight your way to your full auto rifle. Your machine tool will not make a barrel. At present, barrels are not controlled, but soon they will be.
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You will find there is enough latent stock that that does not become the limiting factor in any situation where the supply is limited.
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What's the mean number of rounds a deployed infantryman shoots per year? Not 5K. What's effective life of an AR barrel? Somewhere 10-15k, depending on how hot you get them (and pistol barrels last forever). How many barrels available per insurgent? Dozens. Not an issue.
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Small parts (extractor, springs, gas rings, firing pin, bolt) break waaay before barrel life is reached. That's why you have spares. They're cheap, too, and in a pinch can be machined or adapted from completely innocuous components
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Barrels are not beyond DIY. A friend of mine was cutting rifling in his dad's shop when he was 13. With simple tools. As far as I know, he still hunts with the gun he made, 40 years later.
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The knowledge of how to make barrels needs to be made widely available - the time is approaching when it will be needed. We need a videos and documentation all wrapped up in a torrent. And the time will also come when we need to make cnc blanks for the other gun parts.
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True. I can see a lot of us getting into smelting. And if you already have the furnace, lost wax casting isn't too hard. Instead of a few dozen gunmakers, we'll have thousands.
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