Blast From The Past: Zip Guns (handgun, loaded, make, barrel)
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Recall reading about New York teenage gangs and their zip guns and wondered whether it was just a 1950s New York thing. No one from my city or at least my lower middle-class Baltimore 'hood carried them.
I guess as the years went by it became easier to get "real" guns in the form of Saturday night specials and progressing to the higher class shootin' irons that we see today.
Nah, the USFA gun is just someone trying to market off the "zip gun" name. A real zip gun is a homemade gun made from things like pipes and nails.
And yeah, as more and more reliable "real" guns were manufactured, the need for criminals to make zip guns went away. This is actually one area where the anti-gunners' logic is spot on.
There was a guy on Youtube showing how to make a .22 handgun out of a piece of wood and an automobile brake line as the barrel. If I made one of those I would have to test fire it by hiding behind a tree with a long string tied to the trigger.
My friend back in high school made a .22 zip gun in machine shop class years ago. He "overbuilt" the barrel using a piece of 1 inch steel rod. He also made several serious pipe bombs back in the day. I remember hanging out setting them off; one made a 6 inch crater in the ground. Another time when he was experimenting with copper tube crimped end bombs the thing went off like a rocket and almost took off the head of one of my buddies.
FYI- This was well over 30 years ago if any ATF agents are reading
Never had a zip gun, but I made a black powder hand cannon out of old pipe when I was 14. It wasn't accurate, but when loaded with buck shot anything within 20 feet of the muzzle was going to get devastated. Perhaps my father shouldn't have taught me how to make black powder that young....
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