These 22 lethal thingamajigs were created by daring (and sometimes reckless) individuals who decided to craft something dangerous right in the comfort of their own basements. You won’t believe what they thought they could make!
Homemade .22 “something” confiscated from meth head in Australia
South American homemade gun
Homemade gun confiscated in South America
Double barreled pistol made by prison inmates in the prison’s metal workshop
Shotgun made from iron bedposts in a prison in Germany. Two inmates used this gun to take a prison guard hostage and escape.
Zipgun designed to fit inside a pen
Homemade gun confiscated by police in the Caribbean
Homemade double-barreled shotgun from Georgia (the country, not the state)
Homemade .22 long rifle, including bayonet
Homemade shotgun made from a wooden block
A homemade copy of a Martini-Henry rifle, made into a pistol by a gunsmith in Khyber Pass region between Pakistan and Afghanistan
A working homemade gun confiscated from a meth head in Iowa, dubbed the “Smith and Methson”
Homemade gun used to assassinate former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, built this working pistol out of wood and metal