• Zips. Pipes, For example, while on United Nations duty in Cyprus, a unit of the Canadian army recovered a handmade Thompson submachine gun produced by Turkish Cypriots to bypass the arms import embargo. According to Capt. J.M.G. Gagn£ of the Canadian unit, the weapon was handmade except for the barrel, compensator, and a few minor parts. The two pieces of the receiver were machined out of brass, which did not create problems of reliability. The weapon is one of hundreds that were produced, he reported. He said the few issue parts were either smuggled in or already existed on the island. The rest of the homemade parts were fabricated in rudimentary workshops that turned out assigned pieces. Pieces were then collected,