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Zips, Pipes, And Pens: Arsenal Of Improvised Weapons | 
 enlarge | Author: J. David Truby
Publisher: Paladin Press
List Price: $18.00
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Rating:  9 reviews
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.4
ISBN: 0873647025
Dewey Decimal Number: 683.4
EAN: 9780873647021
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Product Description
In this book, J. David Truby demonstrates why gun control simply doesn't work. Features rare photos of remarkably ingenious and very deadly improvised weapons made by guerrillas, secret agents, criminals and freedom fighters, all collected from prisons, police departments and Third World countries. For information purposes only.
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 unusual weapons December 23, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I almost cancelled this order, but ended up with the book.... it is a good read and makes for a pleasant afternoon - it feeds curiosity and is well written.
I was into the old series "Get Smart" and all the old spy movie stuff... this, however, reveals real weapons that have been developed.
Very interesting!
 review August 23, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this is a so so product lacking depth and content, you can read it though
Interesting...different than I thought it would be, but interesting... February 16, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I thought this book was going to be about how to improvise every day objects and use them as weapons, but it is a book about bans on guns and how people have made guns themselves when the government will not. This book is a very good overview of why people have created their own weapons, and it helps me to appreciate the First Ammendment more and more.
If you are looking for a book on weapon-making, I would recommend the Improvised Munitons Blackbook.
very informative November 3, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
good information bases book. Very useful in keeping up with what can be done if you put your mind to it. The crimial element is really on the ball in this book. Highly recomment tihs one.
Not a how-to book, but very eye-opening February 26, 2006
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book is basically an illustrated argument against the concept of gun-banning legislature being effective in keeping firearms out of the hands of criminals. There are many photos and examples of improvised single shot weapons using the .22 catridge that hardly look like conventional weapons. What they lack in stopping power and accuracy, they make up for with relative ease of construction, accessability of materials, and concealment. Many of these examples were confiscated from inmates in prisons. Which raises the question: if criminals can make guns in federal prisons, then how can gun laws prevent them from doing so when they are free in the streets?
Later in the book, there are examples of more sophisticated weapons, like reproduced AK-47's and the like by local craftsmen in third world areas.
It's interesting (and to some, perhaps unnerving) to see a shotgun made by a 15 year old from simple pipes that is capable of firing a 12 gauge round.
What could have made it better is if it featured cutaway illisrations showing the inside of some of these devices, like where the round is places, where the firing pin is located, and the mechanism that activates it.
Overall, if you are interested in improvised weapons and/or odd devices, then its worth the money. Just be advised that it is not a how-to manual.
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