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In article <38jdm9$s9u@crchh518.bnr.ca> tomg@bnr.ca (Tom G) writes:
>Alchohol and Drugs are a completely different beast.  They can be cheaply
>made almost everywhere.  They are all derived from plants.  You cannot
>grow a gun or bullets.  A much more sophisticated expensive process
>needs to be available.  The cost of manufacture is much, much higher than
>for drugs.  Therefore, the price of the gun would have to skyrocket to
>make it wortwhile to smuggle.  But then again most crooks could not
>afford this.  One only needs to look at other countries to see this is
>the case.  Even in North Ireland where Bombs, Gernades and Automatic
>weapons are posessed by well financed terror groups, the general public
>does not have access to even small handguns. 

The "well financed terror groups" aren't all that well financed.  Most
of the Unionists and so on are rather poor people trying to survive.
The facts are that bombs are incredibly cheap to manufacture and books
describing the construction of very powerful bombs can be had quite
readily if you look.

As regards guns and bullets, a fully functioning single shot pistol
can be built for about $5 worth of tubing and scrap lumber for a stock.
Bullets can be cast from wheel weights which are frequently discarded
by gargages or which can be found on the sides of most highways.  Brass
is re-usable.  Powder and primers are inexpensive.

The proof that firearms are easy to construct is had by examining the
problems which prisons have with zip guns being constructed IN prisons.

>Deal with handguns the way we deal with more deadly weapons like
>gernades, machine guns, etc.  They are effectively controlled.  And
>there are many more people that would like to get their hands on
>them than the few that do.  The reason is simple supply/demand.
>The supply is not available to the public.

Again, if people wanted to make grenades or machine guns, people would.
The reason they don't is because they don't have to.  But a rather
effective hand grenade can be made from a few cents worth of ball
bearings (or lead shot, take your pick) and some home-made explosive.
Probably under $10 a piece I'd wager.  I had friends in earlier jobs
who fought against the NAZI's using "Malatov Cocktails".  About $0.50
worth of gasoline and an old whiskee bottle.
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