Thread: Home made firearms

Originally Posted by ebf

A bit more involved than just buying a lathe...

You need a lathe that has a large enough spindle bore to take a barrel.
Then you need a shitload of general machining tooling and measuring equipment (easily double or triple the amount you spent on your lathe).
Not add a mill and yet another round of tooling.
Then you need some fairly specific tooling for gunsmithing : chamber reamers etc

Unless you plan on using purchased barrels, or making smoothbore stuff only, rifling a barrel is a whole other pandora's box.

You can button rifle easily enough with a hydraulic press or any other similar equipment. Ain't hard to find a button too.