I'm not gun expert, but isn't that an M4?

Why does he HAVE an M-16?

I mean, I keep one around for fighting off the zombie hordes, but I don't give it a battery charger.

Yeah it's an M-4... which makes it all the more awesome

I think it'd be manlier to brandish a Hello Kitty M-16... not because Hello Kitty is at all manly, of course, but because you've got to be pretty secure in your masculinity to paint your gun hot pink with a picture of Hello Kitty on it and not feel like a ninny.

It is most likely just a plain 'ol AR15, an M4 designation requires select-fire capabilities and a 14.5" barrel, both of which are very tighly regulated by US federal law.

AIRPILLO, you should check out the bARbie-15:

http://noquarters.blogspot.com/2005/04/barbie-has-attitude-now-you-might.html

18 volt power pack. Good for a nice blinding laser. Or even a cutting laser, using capacitors to build up a charge. Get ready for the laser guns -- batteries are now good enough.

an M4 is a watered down M16 modified to be fully automatic.

A battery? That thing will be sure to fail just as the zombies breach the front door. Sheesh!

batteries are now good enough.

The US Marines have a laser anti-missile defense platform. It takes up an entire truck to carry it.

...These damn things just aren't complete unless they have a classic Matty Mattel logo on them :-(

I'd allow this to be entered into the Power Tool Drag Races. Bring it on. It just might win the Edsel Cup.

brilliant. as if the police don't have enough to worry about. first they have to use split-second judgement to avoid shooting someone if they have a realistic toy gun pointing at them.

But hey - what the hell - let's make real guns look like toys!

BRILLIANT! Load em up with some cop-killer teflon slugs and you're ready for a heapin' helpin' of bulletheaded hospitality! That's good-ol' American know how right there son. You make yo daddy proud ya hear? Now get me a beer.

In response to some of the incorrect and hyperbolic speculation posted so far:
This is not an M-16 or an M-4 or a typical civilian AR-15. As evidenced by the presence of a sear pin above the safety selector and the appearance as an actual firearm, this is in fact a fully automatic weapon. This is most likely a civilian transferrable pre-1986 M-16 lower receiver mated with furniture and an upper receiver to appear as an M-4 rifle. It is not possible to tell if the upper receiver is cut for M-4 feed ramps, but from the low-quality image, the barrel lacks the M-4 grenade launcher cuts and is therefore not even superficially an M-4.
For the poster who bemoaned the breakdown of social order and anarchy which will prevail as a result of this creation; consider that the lower receiver of the above weapon is more valuable than many new automobiles in the united states and only those with significant financial resources and a clean criminal record may purchase one. No crime has ever been committed in the united states with a registered machine gun.

That someone glued a battery pack onto and applied stickers to a $20,000 gun is amazing ... sad ... idk what.

That would drive a nail you could NEVER get out.

He oughta have been able to build it out of an actual M-16, but us peons (the people, you know those who the government is supposed to be by, of and for), can't buy machine guns made after 1986, jacking the prices of a real M-16 higher than some new cars.

Following the link to the original post you can see close-ups (3rd photo in the square of 4, entitled "Selector") that shows the modified selector switch (the creator added a "Rock N Roll" where an M16 would have "Auto" or "Burst" depending on model). On the far left you can see "-15" where it would say "Property of US Government" had the weapon ever been the property of the US Government. It's an AR-15. (he also has it loaded with long barrel [M16] 5.56 and not the green-tipped rounds he likely ought to have considering shortened barrel).

Enough geeking and semantics-wrestling. It's really cool looking and a rather clever mod.

It could be a Model 607 CAR-15 SMG; but since there were only fifty of those made it would be a bit of a shame to mod it this heavily.

Anywhoo, I'm holding out for the Fisher-Price M203...

Ha! I checked the comments because I knew there would be discussion on what weapon this actually is. And I wasn't disappointed.

I love the M4 / 16 shape, very iconic. I've even painted it a couple of times.

If I owned one (UK here!) I doubt I'd do this to it!

I'm with a couple of posters on this in part, the weapon may or may not have a value to someone, but I can't get the "why", it looks like a very well made waste of time.

Check out this cool gun mod:
http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/03/17/PH2007031701303.jpg

#12 - mgabrysSF:

For what it's worth, so-called "Teflon bullets" are, for the most part, a myth. Teflon is indeed applied to some bullets, but its primary purpose is to reduce the deposits from the bullet's lead core and jacket materials (often copper) that build up in the barrel. These deposits are known as "fouling", and over time reduce the accuracy of the weapon. It is also believed that the coating can prolong the life of a barrel by reducing the wear caused through friction. There are no studies that I am aware of that show Teflon or similar coatings adding to a projectiles penetration in any significant manner.

I believe the myth was born due to a misunderstanding of the properties of a certain bullet developed for police/SWAT use. This bullet was designed for increased penetration by replacing the standard lead core with hardened-steel. The round did indeed use a Teflon coating on the bullet (for the reasons I mentioned above) but its increased effectiveness was due to the steel core, which does not deform and fragment as much as lead when striking a target, and thus will have greater ability to penetrate a hard target.

Regardless of what you see in the movies, "spraying your bullets with Teflon" probably isn't going to make them anything but slippery...

-lunk-

Thebes - why on earth do you want a machine gun, pre- or post-1986, at all? Is it the 1,000,000 watchlist terrsts? I mean, good grief.
GregLondon - IANAGN, but probably you don't need as much battery power to burn someone to death as you do to take out an ICBM.

Thebes,

As one of the people our government is supposed to be by and for, I'm not exactly sad that machine guns are hard to get.

@13 - N16

"No crime has ever been committed in the united states with a registered machine gun."
Can you point me to the statistics for crimes with _unregistered_ macchine guns? Whenever I see someone make a comment about the safety of available guns they cite statistics for registered gun owners. That's fair enough. However, I'd be willing to get that the legality of registered guns makes _unregistered_ guns much easier to get hold of and therefore abuse.

Of course, there's the counter-argument that the illegal use of a gun shouldn't be used as an argument to curtail the legal users' rights. I haven't decided where I stand on that issue yet, and won't until I see some solid statistics.

@ #21 Patrick Dodds

Isn't it enough that he wants one and can afford it as well? The US is supposed to be a free country after all, who are you to judge someone else's hobbies?

Oh I love it when people customize their deadly firearms into hilarious configurations. That Hello Kitty rifle some guy made for his wife, that one is a classic. Maybe we should let military troops do this to their firearms so they don't look as murderous and intimidating.

So, why doesn't this count as Steampunk?

Because there is nothing evocative of the Victorian era about a DeWalt power tool.

I'd best not reply Webcester - gun control arguments have been done to death elsewhere on BB. I think I am just going to have to accept that, as a UK citizen, I am never going to be able to understand why a society would want to enable it's citizens to own assault rifles.
Mind you (oh you've got me started now - sorry) - I argue the other way on drugs. No logic I guess.

I liiiike thiiiis.

in the gun control idea: 1. Right to Bear Arms shouldn't be discounted and 2. Even if you do take guns away, people will just make more dangerous things like zipguns or those bits of pipe that you can slap a shotgun shell with to make a crude, dangerous shotgun (to the user and anyone nearby- explosion).

Guns are everywhere. People would just open up a large black market for them if they're taken away from us.

I suggest reading a book called Zips, Pipes, And Pens: Arsenal Of Improvised Weapons by J. David Truby. Fascinating mechanics revealed, and interesting insights to gun control laws.

I would be very disappointed if anyone tries to turn this thread into a debate on gun control.

Victorian power tools? Steampunk modular power source for various utilitarian contraptions... a "PORTABLE" steam generator with tiny coal furnace and easily mountable belt drive... oh yeahhhhh

What a tool! Yes, it is meant to have two meanings...