View Single Post
  #6  
Old 09-23-2009, 10:15 AM
Webstral's Avatar
Webstral Webstral is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: North San Francisco Bay
Posts: 1,688
Default

Loompanics, when it was still in operation, had a plethora of books on garage manufacture of firearms, in addition to explosives and just about every other sruvivalist topic one could imagine. Paladin Press has taken over some of the titles, of not all. If one has the proper tools, functional weapons can be manufactured on a very low scale. If one has some gunsmithing gear, some very serviceable weapons can be crafted.

It seems to me that the real tricks in the post-Exchange world are mass production, reliability of the weapons produced, and safety of the workers. It's all well and good to produce a highly accurate bolt action rifle, but if the gunsmith can only make a dozen a year he isn't paying his way in the Twilight: 2000 world. Similarly, one can't have Wojo factories everywhere. Lastly, it's possible quickly to make firearms that will function for a short time but give out at the wrong time. Then there's the matter of proper raw materials.

Properly equipped gunsmiths will be worth ten times their weight in aviation fuel in 2000.

Webstral
Reply With Quote