Comments by "crazyfvck" (@crazyfvck) on "Hudson Mfg Bankruptcy and the Reality of Firearms Manufacturing" video.

If I were ever inclined to come out with a new gun design, I would build several dozen, and give them all to friends/family to "shoot the shit out of." I would require them to use all different types of ammo, and require them to record the type of failures/frequency of failures. I would refine it/redesign it, then repeat the process. I would do that over and over until I had a polished, functional product, or until I realized that it is not going to work. If I did end up with a polished product, I would take my design to larger firearms manufacturers, and try to get THEM to build it (for the reasons that you made clear in this video.) It's one thing to design a working gun, it's another to try and produce large quantities of them.
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