This is the first book, which can be considered a technical manual, detailing the best learned methods, to build the best tried design of a non-firing replica submachine gun, complete with all functional components except for the firing pin and hollow barrel. The simplicity of this design allows just about any Average Joe with basic tools (no lathe, milling machine, or specialized tooling of any kind) to build this prop, thereby demonstrating to gun-fearing politicians, who some may call "tyrannical", the futility of their lust for confiscation. Following the instructions herein will lead to an insightfully empowering understanding of this type of technology, and when your finished, in addition to a rewarding sense of accomplishment, you may just help DETER TYRANNY!

This guide covers making ammunition and its components from improvised materials. Making your own gunpowder or re-purposing existing powders for off label use, making priming compounds for recharging primers, finding materials for making bullets, formulas for various smokeless, semi-smokeless and black powders as well as black powder substitutes.

From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold USA Today bestselling story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units. Surprise . . . your target. Kill . . . your enemy. Vanish . . . without a trace. When diplomacy fails, and war is unwise, the president calls on the CIA's Special Activities Division, a highly-classified branch of the CIA and the most effective, black operations force in the world. Originally known as the president's guerrilla warfare corps, SAD conducts risky and ruthless operations that have evolved over time to defend America from its enemies. Almost every American president since World War II has asked the CIA to conduct sabotage, subversion and, yes, assassination. With unprecedented access to forty-two men and women who proudly and secretly worked on CIA covert operations from the dawn of the Cold War to the present day, along with declassified documents and deep historical research, Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen unveils -- like never before -- a complex world of individuals working in treacherous environments populated with killers, connivers, and saboteurs. Despite Hollywood notions of off-book operations and external secret hires, covert action is actually one piece in a colossal foreign policy machine. Written with the pacing of a thriller, Surprise, Kill, Vanish brings to vivid life the sheer pandemonium and chaos, as well as the unforgettable human will to survive and the intellectual challenge of not giving up hope that define paramilitary and intelligence work. Jacobsen's exclusive interviews -- with members of the CIA's Senior Intelligence Service (equivalent to the Pentagon's generals), its counterterrorism chiefs, targeting officers, and Special Activities Division's Ground Branch operators who conduct today's close-quarters killing operations around the world -- reveal, for the first time, the enormity of this shocking, controversial, and morally complex terrain. Is the CIA's paramilitary army America's weaponized strength, or a liability to its principled standing in the world? Every operation reported in this book, however unsettling, is legal.

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

American journalist Scott Peterson describes the violent events that have torn apart Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda during the 1990s, including the involvement of the U.S.

Written by gunsmith Jerry Lindsey, this simple and easy to follow guide to make a beautiful Remington model 6 without investing in equipment beyond what most homeowners already posses. Just a few dollars in materials and a modest investment in time can create a rifle anyone will be proud of.

Combining insider and outsider perspectives, Women in Lebanon looks at Christian and Muslim women living together in a multicultural society and facing modernity. While the Arab Spring has begun to draw attention to issues of change, modernity, and women's subjectivity, this manuscript takes a unique approach to examining and describing the Lebanese "alternative modernities" thesis and how it has shaped thinking about the meaning of terms like evolution, progress, development, history, and politics in contemporary Arab thought. The author draws on extensive ethnographic research, as well as her own personal experience.

How was American culture disseminated into Britain? Why did many British citizens embrace American customs? And what picture did they form of American society and politics? This engaging and wide-ranging history explores these and other questions about the U.S.'s cultural and political influence on British society in the post-World War II period.

Hartman's text is a great initiation for hobbyists who wish to try building a real gun from scratch, using only standard garage tools, not milling machines or lathes. He explains how to build a firearm with a used .22 barrel from a gun show and some scrap steel while using a drill press, grinders, wire welder, a hacksaw, and files.

This is a book about freedom. Written for intellectual swashbucklers -- men and women who are radicals in politics and infidels in religion -- warriors who hammer the stake of fear into the heart of tyranny -- this volume belongs in select book collections, between the black magic and the pornography texts.