A small shop in Guadalajara was making AR-15 lower receivers, using a Hardinge VMC 600 ii CNC mill.[1] This wasn't the usual operation starting from "80% lower receivers"; they were machining the whole part from plain aluminum billets. The machining job lacks a finish pass, but probably works.
There are some surprisingly primitive yet successful gun factories in the third world.
Yes, and they only exist because the government turns a completely blind eye. If you had a choice between all guns coming from America and all guns being made in Mexico, the government can do something about the latter but absolutely nothing about the former.
There are some surprisingly primitive yet successful gun factories in the third world.
[1] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-cartel-gunsmi...