Familial Feud • 57 A gun merchant in Dana, on the Pakistani frontier, sells handmade copies of rifles, shotguns, pistols, and submachine guns. The roar of gunfire rules this wild land. (Courtesy of Helms Tool & Die, Ltd.) and the H&K G3 assault rifle. Prices range from about $100 for a pistol to $3,000 for a heavy machine gun. Producing scarce ammo brings about 30 cents per 9mm round to $3 for j * 50-caliber round. As Catherine Lamour and Michel Lamberti point out in their book The Second Opium War, in Pakistan weapon counterfeiting is truly a national industry among the independent mountain people of the Northwestern Frontier provinces. I have seen examples of high-quality copies of the M16A1, as well as the newest Czech, Polish, Spanish, and Italian submachine guns, and even top-notch mortars and light artillery — exact copies down to the counterfeited proof marks. However, the quaint image of native craftsmen bending over crude hand tools is a bit too much National Geographic for today's reality. While a few weapons are made that way