The Meskwaki Nation Police Department in Iowa confiscated this week a homemade firearm dubbed the “Smith and Meth-Son.” The hilariously awkward contraption was apparently created by a felon with a history of firearm, meth, and cocaine violations.
The Meskwaki Police haven’t released any additional details about the case, but they posted a video and several images to their Facebook page.
“We want to inform you of a public safety and law enforcement matter that came to our attention today. The possessor of this firearm was a felon prohibited from possessing firearms and was previously convicted for possessing firearms. He possessed meth and was previously convicted for distributing cocaine,” the department wrote.
It appears that the gun had already blown up by the time law enforcement got their hands on it. Two cartridges, one of which appears to be stamped “.410,” are loaded in the double barrels, but one of them is missing a primer. The other appears to have been marred by the drill bit used as a striker.
There doesn’t appear to be any kind of breach or locking mechanism to keep the cartridges from blowing up the rear of the case. Instead, based on the photos, it looks like the inventor (who is a meth head) designed a shroud to rotate down behind the cases and hold them in place.
For operating in dark environments, the user (who, as a quick reminder, is a meth head) affixed a silver flashlight underneath the two barrels.
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“Although our officers have dubbed this creation the ‘Smith and Meth-Son,’ this is no laughing matter,” the Meskwaki PD said on Facebook.
It is a laughing matter, but as Michael Ware explains for the Iowa Firearms Coalition, the Smith and Meth-Son also demonstrates that bad guys will find a way to get their hands on firearms.
“If a bad guy wants to do harm, he’ll do it,” Ware writes.
Why, oh why, do we consistently grind all the good guys into the dirt with layer upon layer of useless law, regulation, ordinance, and rule when only WE follow the laws? If you’re a felon prohibited from firearm ownership, and you’re this determined to get your hands on a firearm, we can all agree the law is worthless to them. So why strip you and me of our rights when this is the truth of the matter?
In other words, President Joe Biden’s recent attempts to clamp down on so-called “ghost guns” are doomed to fail. Law-abiding Americans will no longer be able to purchase 80-percent receiver kits, but that won’t stop felons (and, of course, meth heads) from crafting their own homemade firearms.
Not wanting to capitalize on tragedy, but an unfortunate incident could have made this ‘enough gun’.
The Hilarious factor is very subjective.
Shotshells are about the only ammunition in Japan. Two of those in a cobbled up, less ornate device was used to assassinate Prime Minister Shinzo Abe just days ago.
“Hilarious Homemade Firearm Confiscated from Meth Head in Iowa”
I’ve been here before, this time rolled up in a search.
What struck me this time, ‘Hilarious Homemade……’, being just days after Shinzo Abe assassination. Perpetrator used a contraption even less ‘custom’, but chambered for shotshells; about the only serious ammunition available in Japan.
Extremists and criminals do what extremists and criminals have done before.
What is the medallion on the side of the grip? Is it a “One Week Sober” coin?
The person who actually gets that thing to fire is more likely to be the ghost.
So, technically, the description should read ‘breech’, as opposed to ‘breach’; you can have one or the other on a firearm, they are not realistically interchangeable. Sharp eye on drillbit vs ‘phillips’ bit. Technical accuracy and semantics are important! (Just try substituting baking soda for baking powder). I once quit a job ‘cos the man in charge told me disodium phosphate and trisodium phosphate were the same thing
should be legal in kalifornia! the bling writing ser#, holds less than 10 rds, not semi auto, and the #2 philips firing pin could satisfy micro stamping heh-heh
Or is this what happens when an illegitimate prezident tinkers unsupervised in the garage?
I didn’t know Leinad made a rail gun!
I recognize that gun! It’s the ghost gun Biden exhibited during his press conference the other day! You know the one I’m talking about- where he said ghost gun kits can be purchased for $150 and assembled to make a gun in 1/2 hour!
I’m going to order three or four of these kits before August!
The joke is on all of us!!!! What the article failed to mention was that the meth head turned this in at a Dem run city “cash for turned in gun program”and received $150. 00 for it!
I suggest we all start gathering our loose bits of pipe, hose clamps and wire and do the same. One more ghost gun off the street! I have a warm fuzzy feeling already!
It may look horrible, but from an engineering standpoint it’s a remarkable piece of ‘Rube Goldberg’ construction… It’s very reminiscent of the Unibombers attempt. The guy may be a meth-head, but he’s got some creativity buried in that burned out mind….
Actually it’s Unabomber (from university/airline bomber) not Unibomber. The devices made by Kaczynski were very well crafted given the materials and tools he had available in his mountain cabin.
Sir! Request permission to reparaphrase ol’Ben Franklin, Sir! Whoso maketh such gun, hath an ass for both designer and client! Sir! Mea fecitus jest, of course, when you realise that this handheld grenade does not have an effective safety zone. One of the ugliest IEDs i have seen, and a severiously negligent act of despicably uncaring desperation. Maliciously fatally and simultaneously sadistic and masochistic. prospective Darwin Award candidate. (I think i may have injured my keyboard)
Laugh if you will, I certainly did, but it still has more class than any polymer-framed firearm I’ve ever seen.
Isn’t this what we called a ZIP-GUN?
Are we sure Hunter Biden didn’t make this? If so it should have been sold as art, with 20 percent for the big guy.
The author failed to mention that this is the collector’s grade version with the medallions in the wood grip.
GA needs a like feature! Your comment here and the one above are hi-larious!
Maybe JB weld would make those polymer frames look better!
Finding a holster for that might be a little difficult.
Not sure I’d want to IWB carry that.
Just wondering if takes both 2 3/4 and 3” shells?
Not to be that guy but imma be that guy.
Well actually… the two standard lengths for .410 bore shells are 2 1/2” and 3”. A 2 3/4” .410 shell would be very odd.
Yup… pretty standard *tweaker* fare. We see the same treatments here in Arizona to; motorcycles, riding mowers, TVs, well really most anything that these losers get their hands on.
Right now, I’m in the midst of un-tweaking a ’73 Moto Guzzi El Dorado that a pair of morons had been mad-maxing.
73 Moto Guzzi El Dorado… Sweeeet!! Hope your restoration goes well!
Annnnd here is one of them there “Ghost Guns” . . .
W..w..wait for it.
Next items on ban list; .25¢ pieces, flat washers, hose clamps, drill bits, driftwood, and most importantly, 2 part epoxy.
Go to garage or kitchen junk drawer. Utilize those materials immediately! Detailed assembly drawings above!
Not you, cerulean canine…
Ninja please. If they don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy. I like to think my Smith and Meth-son would look better than this.
Seriously, though, this is a good argument for background checks on ammo. This guy couldn’t pass a background check for .410 shells.
If he couldn’t buy factory ammo then a goofball like that would simply mix up some black powder from stuff at Home Depot and make a flintlock for it out of a BIC lighter. All you gotta be is an idiot who can Google.
Yes. We’ve noticed your tendencies, evidenced by “I like to think…” as if certain to surpass the sample, endless “I’ve got one like…”and general un-slaked thirst for attention.
We hoped continually awarding First Peanut of Your Kennel/ Gallery would suffice.
All of us are content, happy AND handsome.
Some, more so than others…
Bondo and firearms don’t mix.
That looks like something jawas off tatoonie would build.
Nah they just Bubba poor smellys.
25 cents per shot. Hey, if it goes bang consistently, can’t knock it…
Here’s the bottom line on this. Here’s a repeat felon — clearly and unequivocally prohibited from possessing, let alone owning, a firearm, who has this thing. That the politicians really don’t give a damn about gun violence will be proved beyond any reasonable doubt when the US Attorney in Iowa refuses to prosecute this guy and put him away in Federal Prison for the rest of his life. Oh well, he’s a poor, disadvantaged Indian and the thing was more dangerous to him than anybody else, so we’ll just let it slide — they’ll say.
Either you’re for stopping gun violence — which means prosecuting criminals who use guns to commit crimes — every damn last one of them — or you’re not. The US Government? — NOT!.
Federal law makes no distinction between owning and possessing a firearm. Actually there is no legal “ownership”, it all has to do with “possession”, which includes having ready access to a gun.
Felons aren’t allowed to touch ammo per gca68. That contraption was loaded with 2 felonys
Well that’s a face only a mother could love.
The little medallions on the grip imply an attention to detail that might otherwise be lost on the rough whole. I can see that one side is some kind of Thai… bhat? Maybe? The other looks like some kind of Catholic medallion of protection, which seems appropriate to as for the Lord’s protection before firing that monstrosity.
I have a little side by side Rossi .22LR pistol, the No. 8 Garrucha, and it vaguely reminds me of that. Double hammers, though.
Ghost gun?