“Homemade” clandestine weapons with tubes: two stops

The chronicle reports two cases of arrests due to the production and possession of clandestine weapons “homemade” with tubes.
The Carabinieri of Gela, in Sicily, have arrested two people for having found, hidden in their property, some tubes that individually appear to be simple metal pieces, but which, once assembled, are firearms of rapid use and easy concealment. At the end of the operations a complete caliber 36 weapon was placed under seizure with other adaptable tubes of different caliber, numerous metal tubes of the same features for the manufacture of further weapons, as well as sixty cartridges of various caliber.
An operation by the Avola State Police has instead led to the arrest of a man, intercepted on a stolen car, in possession of a craft gun, composed of several disassembled parts: a castle consisting of a cylindrical pipe half an inch with a striker, with a threaded part on which a piece of iron of 25 cm or another of more than half a meter could be screwed for use as a rod. At the home of the arrested person, in addition to various ammunition, there was a small artisan workshop for assembling DIY weapons. Dulcis in fundo, the police also seized an umbrella to make it look like a gun barrel.