weapons from a variety of sources, including Vietnam, some antigovernment rebels still use home workshop firearms. Lt. Randolph Johnson, a U.S. Navy intelligence officer, told me about local police in one of the small Philippine islands to the south confiscating two homemade submachine guns. Produced from plumbing pipe, sheet steel, and the battered parts from original Thompsons that must have been 50 to 70 years old, the guns were lethal. Lieutenant Johnson said the weapons worked *. . . just fine — We took them to our range and they ran off a string of rounds as slick as the real thing* Another ordnance expert, retired Marine CWO-4 Thomas Swearengen, has gathered additional information on some of the Philippine homemade firearms presented in the earlier volumes. Apparently, some of the Philippine weapons shown earlier may have been manufactured originally by Squires-Bingham. This firm, located in Manila, produced commercial revolvers, shotguns, etc., until the Marcos declaration of martial law, when all production ceased. Apparently, though, some folks within the plant began clandestine production Tuns of weapons on a limited basis to keep the anti-Marcos battle going. With the defeat of Marcos, of course, the plant was reopened and now continues to manufacture and export commercial firearms for the domestic and world market. In addition, Swearengen noted that the Moros who were fighting the Marcos' troops were armed with about every firearm one might imagine. For example, he reported that 'The Moros built shot shells from brass and steel tubing. The head was turned on a lathe and the shell body cut from the tubing, then pressed onto the head. This entire ordnance-gathering operation was in the planning stage for a number of years . . . since World War II.' The history of the Moros and armed insurrection goes back much further, though. They gave the Spanish a difficult time throughout their colonial rule of the islands. Being fiercely independent and violently nationalistic, they gave