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New Video: Homemade Weapons' Drum 'n' Bass Remix of Clipping.'s "Wriggle"

New Video: Homemade Weapons' Drum 'n' Bass Remix of Clipping.'s "Wriggle" @clppng @DaveedDiggs @subpop @subpoplicity @fdnieto

Throughout the course of this site’s 10-plus year history, I’ve managed to spill copious amounts of virtual ink covering the acclaimed Los Angeles-based hip-hop trio and JOVM mainstay act Clipping. The trio — production duo Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson and frontperson Daveed Diggs — have been busy over the past couple of years: they released two critically applauded albums as part of…

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Tsugi Podcast 581 : Homemade Weapons

https://www.tsugi.fr/tsugi-podcast-581-homemade-weapons/

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So, it’s been a awhile since I’ve posted. I am still alive, I just havn’t built anything to interesting lately. That being said,  Here is my newest weapon. I wanted to try something different so this time I ran a torch across the handle to give it the burnt look, then followed with a coat of boiled linseed oil and laquer.

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Homemade Mau Mau Firearms

In October 1952, a state of emergency was declared in the British East African colony of Kenya after the killing of white settler families in a spate of brutal murders. A group known as the Mau Mau began an insurgent uprising against British rule targeting white settlers and any Kenyans that didn’t support them. The Kenyan authorities and the British Army fought a three year campaign to quell the rebellion using counterinsurgency tactics. 

Mau Mau leaders, like Dedan Kimathi, used the Kenya people’s religious beliefs to attempt to unite and incite the rebellion, using spiritual oaths to bind insurgents and supporters to the cause. By the mid-1950s, however, the Mau Mau guerrillas had been forced into hiding in their heartland in the Aberdare mountains forcing the British to hunt them down. 

Mau Mau Field Marshal Mwariama inspects his troops, some of whom are armed with improvised firearms (source)

The Mau Mau possessed very few modern weapons and were forced to rely on Panga (machetes) and homemade improvised firearms. Many of these were rudimentary pipe shotguns which used either a slam fire action or a rubber band system which once released caused a striker to hit the ammunition’s primer and fire the weapon.

This photo of three Mau Mau ‘pistols’ shows how springs and rubber bands were used to strike ammunition primers, the bolts appear to be simple barrel bolt latches (source)

The Imperial War Museum has a large collection of captured Mau Mau improvised firearms. The manufacturing quality of the guns varies widely with some quite well finished while others are little more than a metal tube attached to a roughly cut stock. Interestingly, many of them have been fashioned to look a little like British bolt action rifles. Some have non-working triggers and bolt handles while others have wooden ‘box magazines’ and have stocks which approximate SMLEs and No.4 Rifles. 

A collection of captured homemade Mau Mau guns (source)

The improvised firearms were largely made for symbolic reasons to project the status of Mau Mau officers or to intimidate the local populace and bolster the morale of the guerrillas armed with them. Due to their primitive manufacture they were largely unsafe to fire. 

The British counter-insurgency campaign, disunity amongst the Mau Mau and the eventual capture and execution of Kimathi finally led to the collapse of the armed Mau Mau uprising. Any remaining support within the general population ebbed away by 1958.  

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