Gun Bullet Making - Rare Photos

Brass

A worker at Stone Hart Manufacturing Co. in Miami (where these photos were taken) pours bullet casing into an ammunition loader for .45 caliber cartridges.

Slugs

An ammunition loader is filled with .40 caliber projectiles.

Assembly Line

A machine turns out .45 caliber cartridges.

Up to Spec

A .40 caliber cartridge is measured for quality control.

Elsie Garcia weighs a box of 5.56-mm bullets before packaging them for shipping.

The rounds will be shipped to dealers across the country.

Ready

A magazine loaded with 5.56-mm cartridges lies on newly manufactured rounds.

Machine Gun Factory - Amazing Photos

Swiss MiniGun

The SwissMiniGun is a 2.16-inch replica of a Colt Python, and it's a real gun that shoots tiny bullets that are just .35 inches long. This miniature Swiss-made revolver and its ammunition are painstakingly crafted using watchmaking technology.

Looks like the little shooter could do some damage, propelling that tiny slug at 426.5 f/sec.

The Destruction of Weapons

At one steel mill in Shanghai, a huge mountain of confiscated weapons was prepared for the destruction - more than 13,000 units.

Cool gun pics