A friend of mine was in the process of building an outlandishly huge battle axe for his welding class one year... Completely impractical as a weapon, wood cutter, or anything aside from pretty wall decoration... The axe head was about as big as his torso (him being 6ft 3in and not too skinny), and weighing in at about 25-30lbs. He had just gotten the six foot handle welded on when the principal of the college came over and ordered it destroyed. He had to torch the head into four pieces and cut the handle off (because the handle was still a good chunk of steel stock...
ALSO: In my middle school years, TONS of kids would take art, just to get to the pottery section, at which time they made BONGS AND PIPES like crazy!!! Very few got caught, and out of the 10 bongs from my class period and year, only one NON-BONG PIECE got destroyed... It was a bitchen coil pot, big tall flower pot like thing made out of one HUGE coil... an estimated 20 feet of 3/8" to 1/2" (not sure, also varied because it was all hand-rolled) coil on a 2-foot vase. It couldn't even hold water (a valuable ability and the prime ingredient in bong smoking) because it was one coil and one base plate... Too many holes in it. It would've leaked like a sieve. But, the principal was a dick and thought it looked too much like a bong. It was destroyed, and the chick who made it had a fit. Last I heard, parents and lawyers were involved, but nothing reached the news desks.
You can't have weapons, but you sure can make bongs and pipes if you make them not quite pipe/bong looking.
What the fuck has this world become? :\
We've enacted a "no tolerance" policy on weapons, drugs, tobacco, alcohol, etc. etc. etc. and the only thing enforced is the weapons policy, and it's enforced MORE than enough to compensate for the lack of drugs/tobacco/alcohol enforcing...
Fuck, every year while I was in Normal High School, there was some douchebag kid who'd sneak vodka or rum or some other liquor into class in a water/soda bottle, and get totally hammered... It seemed to be some sort of fucking achievement to see how quickly (from the first bell of the day) you could get hammered...
First period, about 45 minutes into the 1hr class period, Junior year #1: A girl had to go to the hospital to get her fucking stomach pumped from alcohol poisoning... Seems she CHUGGED this 16 or 20oz (soda/water bottle) of vodka in 15-20 minutes. Too bad she survived. >:\
I could go to any fucking high school and pick out 20 kids, of which 15 will have pot on them.
Damn near every high school or college kid smokes, and in my years of MIDDLE SCHOOL, there were kids putting DIPS in, in between classes.
But you can't have anything to do with firearms or knives. God forbid kids see a SPENT CASING!!!! They're supposed to be buying meth off the chem teacher or pot off the botany teacher, god damn it! If they're really hard-up, they can always go to the school counsellor and get recommended to a doctor that'd be MORE than happy to give them a prescription for the really GOOD narcotics!!! That's the American way!
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Anyway... Back to the original topic:
Now that everyone has warned you thoroughly....
I'm actually more curious to see what kind of designs you have in mind...
I've got two foreign AK fcg's, and one foreign AK grip (bakelite AK) that I could sell ya for 10 bucks plus shipping. Two triggers, two hammers, one disconnector because I can't find the other one. One set will be sort of rusty, and no springs included. Can't find those either. X)
I could throw in two muzzle brakes as well, 5 bucks for both, 14x1 Left-hand.
I have to keep the grip and one muzzle brake until I get US-made replacements... The brake because I need to keep the threads protected, and the grip for fitting the trigger guard once I get the flat going...
Just wondering when you'll need them. I can send everything in a month or two.
Also: It may be possible for those around here to donate some torched barrel stubs? Wink wink nudge nudge... This way, all you'd have to do is wedge/weld some round stock in place of the missing barrel section, and you'll have a totally inert rifle!
Sorry I can't provide more helpful parts... If you want, you could order/find from members a stamped receiver safety lever and I'll donate my current project's lever. It's rusty on the inside of the lever, where the paddle meets the lever... I LOATHE rust. Can't handle even the feel of it. Rust has ended the lives of too many beautiful steel items, and I hold a massive grudge... Would be better if I could trade and donate my rusty one, because that way I wouldn't be stuck with a safety lever rusting away when I replace it, and you'll get another part toward whatever you're building...
I dunno, let me know...
- CK