I activated for us for 10 dollars each. We had homemade silencers for our pistols, usually made from lawnmower mufflers, which we drilled out. ... It was easy to get guns on the street or steal them ... or make them or modify what we could get. We were pretty good gunsmiths. 'During this period, there were a dozen or so people working with me and quite a few loyal machine shops, so we could contract individual parts without anyone else knowing what the finished product would be. One old machinist did all the fine work for patriotic reasons, and on him 1 depended for shop drawings and specifications. We would rent time in several loyal local shops for work we could not handle ourselves. We built and converted machine guns and silencers this way. In the course of developing our silencers, there was no real scientific research or engineering. We simply set out to limit the noise factor to acceptable levels for use in urban situations. 'Most of the silencers and other pieces of militaiy armament we produced went to such groups as the Minutemen, the California Christian Rangers, the Christian Nationalist Army, and for us, too, etcetera." 'We were a hard core of radicals who were responsible for at least 95 percent of all the heavy racial and political viorence in California. We used all of the groups and other political organizations such as the John Birch Society. I was a captain of such a group, and my team numbered 50 people. The police and federal authorities were well aware of our activities and know who is involved in what. But there is no way of proving anything on anyone." Gun laws are a silly-assed crock of shit. They simply did not apply to us. What we couldn't buy or steal, we made. We took lots of regular guns and easily made them