Introduction: Setting the Target • 7 Famed mercenary William Morgan in Cuban militia uniform with his modified JtXaliber semiautomatic cut-down rifle fed from a 50round drum magazine. (Courtesy of Robert K Brown.) Suppose there were more restrictions placed on private firearms ownership and the Second Amendment was further sodomized by antigun government forces. Would crime disappear? Would America become a kinder, gentler nation? Would poverty, fear, and hatred vanish, too? I ask these silly rhetorical questions simply because there are probably simpletons of all sorts out there who believe in that nonsense. But given the fact that such rhetorical mutterings are just that, we are left with another, very real question: If firearms are outlawed, will they just go away? Will people agree to this prohibition, and, if not, what will they do about it? That is what this book is about. This book is organized as follows, with four introductory chapters explaining the genre, anatomy, and technology of improvised /modified firearms, followed by five chap