Homemade shotguns
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A homemade shotgun or Tumbera or bakakuk is a firearm
made with practically no money and with unsophisticated articles like nails, steel pipes, wooden pieces, bits of string, etc. It can be made by "low budget" criminals and is sometimes found in jails.
The common design of a homemade shotgun is: One curved steel pipe, a piece of wood with a nail in the centre and a longer steel pipe with a smaller diameter than the curved one.
The piece of wood goes inside the curved pipe with the nail pointing to the tip of the pipe, then the other pipe is put inside the curved one the nail makes as a trigger.
A 12-gauge shotgun shell
is placed inside the longer pipe, then the long pipe is placed into the curved pipe and pulled to detonate the shell.
Firearm
A firearm is a weapon that launches one, or many, projectile at high velocity through confined burning of a propellant. This subsonic burning process is technically known as deflagration, as opposed to supersonic combustion known as a detonation. In older firearms, the propellant was typically...
made with practically no money and with unsophisticated articles like nails, steel pipes, wooden pieces, bits of string, etc. It can be made by "low budget" criminals and is sometimes found in jails.
The common design of a homemade shotgun is: One curved steel pipe, a piece of wood with a nail in the centre and a longer steel pipe with a smaller diameter than the curved one.
The piece of wood goes inside the curved pipe with the nail pointing to the tip of the pipe, then the other pipe is put inside the curved one the nail makes as a trigger.
A 12-gauge shotgun shell
Shotgun shell
A shotgun shell is a self-contained cartridge loaded with lead shot or shotgun slug designed to be fired from a shotgun....
is placed inside the longer pipe, then the long pipe is placed into the curved pipe and pulled to detonate the shell.