Firearms

A Fubsy Polymath subdomain

Firearms

Standard pistols, historical pieces & screen-accurate replicas — built at lab depth.

Multi-volume deep dives covering every realistic build path: modify a real donor, assemble from parts, or machine the whole thing from raw stock in the shop. 130 deep dives live so far.

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How to search

sten gun
pages with both words
"sten gun"
the words together, as a phrase
sten OR sterling
either one (| works too)
sten -replica
leave out pages that mention “replica”

Without quotes, the last word also matches longer words that start with it (sten finds Stenophylla), and close word forms count (rifle finds rifles). Tick Exact words to match whole words only.

Other words for the same thing are searched too (uniselector also finds stepping switch), ranked below pages with your own words; the results say what else was searched. Quotes or Exact words turn that off.

Whole deep dives are listed first, then the pages inside them. Click a topic under the box to narrow the results.

Tick Photos to search the captions of every photo and diagram; each picture opens where it sits in its volume. The Show row narrows to one kind of result: volumes, deep dives, photos, parts lists, Library documents or downloads.

Categories

Browse by category

Movie Props Live
Movie Props Screen-used blaster props built from real-firearm donors. Live
Actual Firearms Live
Actual Firearms Real-firearm reference builds — history, engineering, and build paths. Live
Replicas Live
Replicas Non-firing and display replicas. Live
Pellet & BB Live
Pellet & BB Pellet and BB guns — the powerplants, the makers, and the guns that blur the line into firearms. Live
Airsoft Live
Airsoft Airsoft platforms — pistols, rifles, repair, and gas. Live
Scopes Live
Scopes Riflescopes and sighting systems — glass, red dots, thermal, and ballistic solvers. Live
Ammo and Ballistics Live
Ammo and Ballistics Cartridges and the physics of the shot — internal, external, and terminal ballistics. Live
Gunsmithing Live
Gunsmithing The trade itself — historic armory machines, bench technique, and the measurements that keep a rifle safe. Live
Suppressors Live
Suppressors Silencers, end to end — the physics and materials, a caliber-by-caliber buying guide, and the law as it stands after the tax went to zero. Live
Reloading Live
Reloading Building ammunition at the bench — presses from single-stage to automated, the whole equipment suite, and the load-development loop. Live
Light Guns Live
Light Guns Gun controllers for video games, from the CRT scan-line guns through infrared to today's camera-in-the-barrel designs. Live

Legal posture

Everything here is written assuming an experienced-maker / gunsmith audience and is owner-built or owner-modified on the builder's own equipment in compliance with applicable federal and state law. Real-firearm volumes (Build Path C, from-scratch 9×19 in the Mauser C96 deep dive) are documented for the educational and engineering interest of doing the work yourself; jurisdictional rules vary and are the builder's responsibility.

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