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Improvised firearm

Improvised firearms (sometimes called zip guns, pipe guns, or slam guns) are firearms manufactured other than by a firearms manufacturer or a gunsmith, and are typically constructed by adapting existing materials to the purpose. They range in quality from crude weapons that are as much a danger to the user as the target to high-quality arms produced by cottage industries using salvaged and repurposed materials.[1][2][3]

Improvised firearms may be used as tools by criminals and insurgents and are sometimes associated with such groups;[4][5] other uses include self-defense in lawless areas and hunting game in poor rural areas.[6]

Improvised firearm used during WWII

Improvised firearm used during WWII

Improvised zip-gun with interchangeable barrels.

Improvised zip-gun with interchangeable barrels.

Zip gun

Zip gun

A very crude yet functioning homemade gun made by a man in India; it is constructed mostly out of plumbing material

A very crude yet functioning homemade gun made by a man in India; it is constructed mostly out of plumbing material

Collection of Zip guns

Collection of Zip guns

Philip Luty

Improvised explosive device

Improvised artillery in the Syrian civil war

Barrack busters

Improvised mortars

Improvised weapon

Technical (vehicle)

Narco tank

Insurgency weapon

Marble gun

Privately made firearm

TM 31-210 Improvised Munitions Handbook

Trub, J. David (1993) Zips, Pipes, And Pens: Arsenal Of Improvised Weapons . ISBN 0-87364-702-5

Paladin Press

Anonymous (1983) Improvised Weapons of the American Underground Desert Publications.  0-87947-110-7

ISBN

Luty, P. A. (1998) Expedient Homemade Firearms : The 9mm Submachine Gun Paladin Press. ISBN 0-87364-983-4

https://archive.org/details/Expedient_Homemade_Firearms_9mm_Submachine_Gun_P_A_Luty_Paladin_Press/page/n3

Brown, Ronald (1999) Homemade Guns & Homemade Ammo Breakout Productions.  1-893626-11-3

ISBN

McLean, Don (1992) Do-It-Yourself Gunpowder Cookbook Paladin Press.  0-87364-675-4

ISBN

Hollenback, George (1996) Workbench Silencers: The Art Of Improvised Designs Paladin Press.  0-87364-895-1

ISBN

Métral, Gérard (1985) Do-It-Yourself Submachine Gun Paladin Press.  0-87364-840-4

ISBN

Milosevic, Marko (2012) Prepravljeno i ručno pravljeno oružje [Converted and Improvised weapons] Archived 2015-02-26 at the Wayback Machine, BCSP. ISBN 978-86-6237-018-1

http://www.bezbednost.org/upload/document/rucno_pravljeno_oruzje.pdf

(Archive)

DIY flintlock pistol

(Archive)

Improvised & Craft-Built Firearms