that the government had taken away the rights of law-abiding citizens to defend themselves not just from criminals but most importantly from the government so philip decided to circumvent this ban he was going to teach people how to make their own guns it took philip about six months of research and a lot of trial and error but eventually he created the blueprints for simple firearms that you could create with tools and materials that you could just get from your local hardware store they were fully functional yet very simple to create and one of the models even had a suppressor during this time he would keep notes as he was building and researching these firearms documenting the entire process and when he put these notes together they became three book volumes called expedient homemade firearms the most well known of these was an easy to understand guide showing how to build the looty nine millimeter submachine gun parabellum it covered the assembly manufacturer diagrams and it even included a troubleshooting guide philip obviously wanted to share this knowledge with the entire country so that even your own grandmother could build a firearm so on the NUMBER_TOKENst of may NUMBER_TOKEN his book was published by paladin press which was a publishing company based in colorado and this book became immensely popular with homemade gun hobbyists from all over the world and i think he would have tried uk publishers but obviously none of them would have wanted to have touched that the gun in this book however was far from perfect it lacked a rifled battle which heavily reduced the accuracy and limited the range but the book itself wasn't simply to show people how to make the gun the book was made as a statement it was written to symbolize that the freedom of information makes government-imposed bans futile as long as information is free and the resources are available people will make their own firearms a quote from the book reads i dedicate this book to all who refuse to be helpless subjects of the state expedient firearms was written despite the best efforts of informants and the armed agents of a police state to prevent it letters never succumb to the evil doctrine of the anti-gun movement and others who would deprive us of our arms and ban books such as this philip then decided to go a step further and put a digital copy of his book on his website that you could download for free which made it much more accessible and increased its reach to other pro-gun hobbyists however fed's gonna fed and in the uk the feds were monitoring the ip addresses of people that were downloading the book from philips website and then opening investigations into these people which resulted in arrests this only happened in the uk though and not to people who downloaded the book in america because they actually have rights there one of the people that was investigated for downloading the book had his home readied and was arrested just the day before he was due to go in for open heart surgery and the only thing that the man had in his possession was a bb gun a starter pistol and an antique rifle all of which were completely legal for him to own just before the book was published on the NUMBER_TOKENth of april NUMBER_TOKEN litty was convicted for the manufacture of a prohibited weapon and he was sentenced to four to five years in prison though the judge acknowledged that he had no dangerous or criminal intent for the weapons that he had created the judge however was quite perturbed about the real reason the weapons were
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