That gun control is so absolute in so many nations has created a vast global police state where governments do not trust their own citizens with private firearms. That people have allowed politicians, bureaucrats, fascists, and dictators of all political stripes to disarm them does not speak well to the collective intelligence of these citizens. That those who are permitted the illusion of free elections continue to support these police-state rulers defies human intelligence and logic even further. Thus, the military warrior, the secret agent, and the ordinary citizen are faced with a problem whose answer is the ability to fabricate useful firearms from a variety of available products under myriad social, environmental, and psychological conditions. With the knowledge that they can create a personal firearm from easily obtained raw materials, plus from the knowledge gained through study and experience, free men and women will never be at a loss to defend themselves, whatever the situation (e.g., a fleeing POW, the exigencies of combat and supply, an agent scurrying for a closed, hostile border, or free citizens rising up against harsh policestate dictatorship). Ever since our early human ancestor first fastened a sharp piece of thin flint to a wood shaft to create that high-tech weapon . . . spear . . . every dictator knows that he who controls weapons controls the populace. A free country permits its populace to own weapons freely only when the government and the citizens have nothing to fear from each other. Unfree countries do not; police states and dictatorships have total weapon control. Stripped of all its sociobabble, the modern issue of gun control is just that simple. The framers of our federal system of government saw this principle as one of timeless truth: whoever controls weaponry controls the people and the nation. They also recognized that so long as the people had the same access to weapons technology as the government, our nation would remain free of autocratic rule. Our founding fathers would