I actually do like guns. I’ve made some guns also cannons. I used to make my own gunpowder, learned from encyclopedias and bought the ingredients at Payless. The first gun I made when I was fourteen was a metal toy gun. I cut the head off of a bolt then drilled it out the size of a .22 shell and hammered it into the back of the barrel. i filed the hammer to have a high spot on it like a firing pin, then I wrapped a thick rubber band around the hammer to make it strike harder. It worked, probably about as well as these printed POSs. I had it in health class and another guy was looking at it when Mr. Young came up and asked to see it. the guy was swift and pulled the bullet out before he gave it to him. Very military Mr. Young looked it over, handed it back to the kid and said, “you guys are going to kill yourselves”, and walked off. Now don’t any of you little fellas look up the laws on black powder weapons or you will faint and go into a coma.
