Author Topic: Lazs - zip gun? (Read 375 times)

beet1e · « **on:** February 13, 2004, 07:16:07 PM »

Lazs - I had the TV on in the background, and there was a rerun of "Streets of San Francisco" playing. Amongst other crimes committed with guns, there was a guy who was bumping off his ex-classmates using a "zip gun". It looked like a home made device... any idea what this is?

weaselsan · « **Reply #1 on:** February 13, 2004, 07:26:43 PM »

A zip gun was a homemade hand gun, usually only fired once.
They where made with a pipe bored to the right size cal. no
rifleing. It was fired by a spring and makeshift fireing pin, usually a nail. Mostly used by gangs in the 50's and 60's.

capt. apathy · « **Reply #2 on:** February 13, 2004, 08:44:10 PM »

tubing from a car antena, some sort of handle atached with electrical tape, a heavy rubber band, a washer on the band (for a firing pin), and a 22lr shell.

Drunky · « **Reply #3 on:** February 13, 2004, 09:15:35 PM »

Please not another Beet1e gun post....oh, the humanity.

Is this a phallic fetish?

Capt. Pork · « **Reply #4 on:** February 13, 2004, 09:56:20 PM »

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Originally posted by capt. apathy
tubing from a car antena, some sort of handle atached with electrical tape, a heavy rubber band, a washer on the band (for a firing pin), and a 22lr shell.

Can a car antenna handle the pressure?

capt. apathy · « **Reply #5 on:** February 13, 2004, 10:54:42 PM »

yep, for one shot. you rap the first 3 or 4 inches with about 3/8" of electrical tape.

lazs2 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 14, 2004, 09:44:56 AM »

The base of older car antenaes could probly handle the pressure of a 22 if it was a good fit....

The U.S. dumped thousands upon thousands of pretty much "zip guns" onto europe during WWII... single shot .45's made of sheet metal by General Motors... There was ah....... "gun control" laws at the time. That was of course... 60 years ago... ancient history... could never happen again.

Theory being... any gun will get you a better gun. Once you got better guns you could help throw out the tyrants...

lazs