Pipes, Plumbers, and Other Spare Parts • 45 This Universal 30-cahber pistol was created from an M I carbine, using a 30-round magazine It was evaluated and tested by the Montreal Police Department's Technical Section. (Courtesy of JackKrcmaJ off shotgun, a shotshell pistol homemade from a .410 boltaction shotgun, and an unsuccessful attempt to convert an autoloading pistol into a full-auto weapon. In Pennsylvania, state police arrested motorcycle riders following violence near Pittsburgh. Several modified firearms were found, including tear-gas guns converted to fire .32-caliber ammunition. Later investigation of their farmhouse turned up two Ml carbines illegally converted to full automatic capability. Other unusual items confiscated from bikers in Michigan in the late 1980s included two .22 pistols created from tire pressure gauges and a bicycle pump rigged with a spring and a 12-gauge shotgun shell. Nobody with the Michigan State Police wanted to test-fire any of the three, so they rigged them into a vise and discharged them by remote control. All fired safely. According to the Customs agents on the Mexican border, motorcycle gangsters have revamped their vehicles to hide all sorts of weapons and ammunition (e.g., shotshell-firing handlebars, gas tanks modified to carry sawed-off shotguns, and shock absorbers converted to fire a shotshell). Former federal agent Dan Walsh mused, 'What ever happened to the kindly old days when bikers used to smuggle only pot in their gas tanks?" While hardly in the homemade category, the exoteric Weapons turned out by CIA armorers could be classed *mong the unusual samples presented in earlier volumes of