People who think banning guns will make guns disappear are usually unfamiliar with how simple a device a gun is. Anyone with some metal work experience and a garage workshop can fabricate any sort of firearm and ammunition given enough materials and time. Case in point, in Canada where Liberals claim people are more civilized police seized what is likely a home made sub-machine gun along with several sawed-off shotguns from a gang of drug dealers. Here’s the picture:

That’s some nice work. Police can’t identify the piece because according to reports it’s a hybrid of several different types of firearms:

 A submachine-gun seized during a gang house raid in Winnipeg’s North End last week is unlike anything a police firearms expert has seen locally before.

What makes the gun so unique — and troubling, police say — is the way it was cobbled together.

“It looks like a hybrid or amalgam of gun parts,” said police Det. Const. Rob Duttchen, a member of the National Weapons Enforcement Support Team.

Possibly homemade, the submachine-gun and five sawed-off shotguns, along with ammunition, were seized at a house in the 400-block of Manitoba Avenue on Jan. 7, police said.

Three males, aged 17, 27 and 28, are facing almost 120 charges.

Two of the shotguns were stolen during a break-and-enter in the District 6 area, Duttchen said.

The submachine-gun was loaded when it was found, said police spokesman Const. Jason Michalyshen.

It has parts consistent with those of a Second World War-era Sten and M-16 assault rifle, said Duttchen.

A certain level of expertise and knowledge would be required to make such a gun, he said.

That certain level of expertise is usually called shop class and the knowledge is commonly available on the Internet or though books on gunsmithing.

So sorry gun grabbers, the genie’s out of the bottle on this one. If you take my shotgun, I’ll just hit the Home Depot and make a new one.

h/t The Firearm Blog