Meanwhile, Basement • 1 23 firearms is built and explains how to get such approval. He sells copies of the BATF Form 1. 'My original designs are examples of low-technology, highly concealable personal defense weaponry," Sardaukar said. 'My plans are sold only for informational purposes. All plans and shop drawings are professionally drafted, carefully checked and contain all information needed for completion, after official BATF approval is granted on a Form 1. "Asa registered professional engineer, 1 created my weapons as simple shapes using common materials to build with simple tools requiring little mechanical skill or experience. Using the same plans we sell, we had a legally built and tested prototype created for each weapon," he explained. Sardaukar said he got his ideas for these improvised weapons as an undergraduate engineering student. He was watching the movie Our Man Flint, in which the hero, played by James Cobum, used a cigarette lighter that doubled as a gun. "I knew I could make a real gun/lighter and quickly knocked out a sketch. That was it, until about five years later, when 1 came across that old sketch and decided to produce it in my very, very small and modest amateur workshop. I soon had a workable model," he explained. After making careful inquiries of BATF, Sardaukar learned how much time, effort, and money were required to produce legal versions of his lighter/ gun. So he destroyed his prototype and decided to sell only plans. "We have a First Amendment, and you don't have to buy a government license to publish ... yet ... so I now sell only plans and have been doing so for about 10 years," he noted. He added that the basic philosophy of Sardaukar Press is that his designs have to work, be relatively simple to make from common materials, and be defensive in nature. He is appalled at items of indiscriminate mass destruction such as bombs, grenades, mines, etc. 'I am always tinkering around in my mind for new ideas and new ways to hide working weapons in unusual