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For that matter you can get the necessary ingredients for black powder from dog poop, bird droppings, and ordinary charcoal briquettes (or of course you can make your own). Barring availability of primers and/or cartridges, a servicable flintlock can be improvised from an ordinary cigarette lighter (Which may explain why so many antis are anti-smoking, too ).
But if you have to improvise to that extent, why bother?? A .68 caliber lead ball fired from a "WHAM-O" "Wrist Rocket" slingshot will kill a human being , when used properly. reliably and silently, and a Wrist Rocket is just as or more concealable than almost any firearm larger than .32 caliber. And you can manufacture copies of the Wrist Rocket cheaply, legally, and easily; and if there happens to be a law against it it is damned unenforcable.
The ammo leaves no "ballistic fingerprint". And it would be completely possible for a rival gang-basnger to do a random driveby Wrist Rocket attack and get off several shots before hardly anyone knew enough to hit the deck.
WOW. Can you imagine how much money you could make if the Brady Bunch funded a bunch of "slingshot buybacks"?? Home slingshot manufacture would end the recession by spurring sales of surgical tubing and 3/8" steel rod stock, AND put money in people's pockets to stimulate the economy in other ways.
What it won't do is show the Brady Bunch the truth: That their fantasy of a "gun-free" world is based on social alchemy.. For just as the alchemist tried (foolishly) to turn base metal to gold, so the Brady Bunch (among other idiot groups) beleieve that by the right social engineering they can trnsmute base human nature into pure sweetness and light. What a pack of compleat idiots.