Accessible only by foot on a steep,
winding pathway camouflaged by thick vegetation, the ramshackle shop owned by I. Launa has a tattered tarpaulin roof, a work table and several machines for cutting and shaping steel. The whole operation can be packed up and moved on short notice.
Illegal
gun making is a livelihood that has helped put food on the table and
send the family’s children to school since the 1970s, and Mr. Launa, who
asked that only the initial of his first name be used for fear of being
arrested, is just one of a host of such small-scale gunsmiths in the
region. His village alone is home to about a dozen.
And that's in a place where you can't go to a store a buy a benchtop mill or lathe and plug it into a wall outlet.
1 comment:
Yup. Can't stop the signal Mal. If there is a will, there is a way and the Black Market just keeps rolling ...
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