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Re:Mexican Newspaper Shuts Down, Saying It Is Too Dangerous ... by Animats on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @02:13AM (#14029973)
A small shop in Guadalajara was making AR-15 lower receivers, using a Hardinge VMC 600 ii CNC mill.[1] This wasn't the usual operation starting from "80% lower receivers"; they were machining the whole part from plain aluminum billets. The machining job lacks a finish pass, but probably works.

There are some surprisingly primitive yet successful gun factories in the third world.

[1] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-cartel-gunsmi...

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Re:Mexican Newspaper Shuts Down, Saying It Is Too Dangerous ... by hwillis on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @11:04AM (#14033368)
Yes, and they only exist because the government turns a completely blind eye. If you had a choice between all guns coming from America and all guns being made in Mexico, the government can do something about the latter but absolutely nothing about the former.
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