Homemade shotguns

A homemade shotgun or Tumbera is a firearm made with practically no money and with homemade articles like nails, steel pipes, wooden pieces, bits of string, etc. It can be made by "low budget" criminals, and are sometimes found in jails.

The term "Tumbero" regards not only the firearm, it regards many things: the people who wield the homemade weapons, and other kinds of homemade weapons like clubs and knives. Another term used is "Caserita/ito"

The common design of a homemade shotgun is: One curved steel pipe, a piece of wood with a nail in the centre and a longer steel pipe with a smaller diameter than the curved one.The piece of wood goes inside the curved pipe with the nail pointing to the tip of the pipe, then the other pipe is put inside the curved one the nail makes as a trigger.

A 12-gauge shotgun shell is placed inside the longer pipe, then the long pipe is placed into the curved pipe and pulled to detonate the shell.

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