Submachine Gun : Home Workshop Guns for Defense and Resistance (Paperback)

~ Bill Holmes (Author) "If only I had the tools..." (more)
Key Phrases: rifling cutter, inch flat stock, inch round stock (more...)

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Product Description

Now the average person can easily make a submachine gun with minimal tools, equipment and material. This nontechnical book walks you through building the receiver, breech block, barrel, trigger assembly, stock, pistol grip, sights and magazine, as well as heat treating and finishing. Must reading for anyone who is concerned about our increasingly restrictive government. For academic study only.

About the Author

Bill Holmes is one of the last remaining links to a bygone era. He first learned about gunsmithing more than 50 years ago from a guy who took his "fix-it" wagon all around doing odd jobs. Since then, Bill has designed and constructed innumerable firearms, written seven books and been featured in two videos for Paladin and become one of the country's best-known and most highly respected authorities on home-workshop weapons and firearms laws.

Product Details

• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: Paladin Press; Revised & enlarged edition (November 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873640853
• ISBN-13: 978-0873640855
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #497,241 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars subpar book, August 23, 2000

By A Customer

Don't waste your money on this book! It does have a few useful bits of info but if you think you could build a gun using this book, think again. The black and white photos were so over exposed that you can't make out any detail, the drawings were so faint that half of them couldn't be seen and nearly all of them didn't have any dimensions.I'd suggest Gerard Metrals book "A Do-it Yourself Submachine Gun" if you have access to machining equipment.It's packed full of prints.Also try Bill Holmes later volumes 3, 4, and 5. He did a much better job on those.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars you need access to the mag decribed in this book, July 6, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Handgun (Home Workshop Guns For Defense & Resistance) (Paperback)

I read this book 2 times, and then from the back once because the gun you end up buy trying to make is in the last two pages.There is also no mag in this book ,as long as you have access to the one in the book you should have a good chance at building one.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars the handgun, November 9, 2006

By	Kevin W. Speer "olesloppy" (western australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Handgun (Home Workshop Guns For Defense & Resistance) (Paperback)

The author has an overrated view of his own capabilities.
Insufficient detail to make this publication worthwhile.
Totally unprofessional.