VICE News - The Homemade Guns of Taiwan

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VICE News - The Homemade Guns of Taiwan

Post by jwai86 » 07 Apr 2022, 5:18 pm

This documentary was posted up late last year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LStALMxDtdU
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Post by Fionn » 07 Apr 2022, 5:51 pm

Guns like this

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Yes I have used it, black powder and shot. The priming charge is cap gun powder.
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Post by womble » 07 Apr 2022, 7:20 pm

Excellent example, only fired a box, some slight surface rust, need to make room for new project
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Re: VICE News - The Homemade Guns of Taiwan

Post by Fionn » 07 Apr 2022, 7:33 pm

Scary thing to use, the powder measure is a plastic coke bottle lid. The powder is taken from fireworks. It actually works for hunting OK as its generally used within 20 metres.
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Re: VICE News - The Homemade Guns of Taiwan

Post by rc42 » 07 Apr 2022, 8:01 pm

Taiwan doesn't allow citizens to have commercially made firearms at all but you can be sure that if China invades them they'll be handing out AR15 style rifles to anyone willing to fight and die to keep the current government in power, just like Ukraine.

To be fair though, both Russia and China are big fans of genocide when invading other countries, China doesn't invade other countries often but they practice acts of genocide on sections of their own population on an ongoing basis.
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Post by on_one_wheel » 07 Apr 2022, 9:12 pm

rc42 wrote:Taiwan doesn't allow citizens to have commercially made firearms at all but you can be sure that if China invades them they'll be handing out AR15 style rifles to anyone willing to fight and die to keep the current government in power, just like Ukraine.

To be fair though, both Russia and China are big fans of genocide when invading other countries, China doesn't invade other countries often but they practice acts of genocide on sections of their own population on an ongoing basis.


China don't need to invade anyone to find ways of performing genocide. They were accused of acts of genocide against Uyghurs not that long ago.
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Re: VICE News - The Homemade Guns of Taiwan

Post by Biscuits » 19 Apr 2022, 9:36 pm

rc42 wrote:Taiwan doesn't allow citizens to have commercially made firearms at all but you can be sure that if China invades them they'll be handing out AR15 style rifles to anyone willing to fight and die to keep the current government in power, just like Ukraine.

To be fair though, both Russia and China are big fans of genocide when invading other countries, China doesn't invade other countries often but they practice acts of genocide on sections of their own population on an ongoing basis.


You would think that Taiwan would be looking at Ukraine and starting to wonder if having a civilian population who has no idea how guns work is a good thing or not.

Just as aside, there is a big airsoft market in Taiwan.
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Re: VICE News - The Homemade Guns of Taiwan

Post by womble » 20 Apr 2022, 4:22 am

Not helpful.
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