New Homemade Handgun Designed to Get the Most Out of Gun Buybacks

Mark Serbu, mastermind behind the Serbu Super Shorty and other oddball firearms, has a new design specifically intended to clog gun buybacks and allow people to actually turn a profit off of these events.

The GB-22 is a single shot handgun with only about four components. Intended to be manufactured by someone in their basement, the design only requires a hacksaw and drill to turn a length of bar stock into a functioning firearm. Shown in the video are some CNC machined examples made by Mark Serbu, but no CNC is required.

While its interesting to think that the gun can be produced for far less than the typical going reward rate for handing in your heater at a gun buyback, in reality the time and effort required to construct such a gun is still probably prohibitive for those thinking about cashing in on this possible goldmine.

Particularly interesting to me is that this firearm is basically identical to Cody Wilson’s Liberator handgun which caused a bit of a kerfuffle with the Department of State over ITAR regulations. The only difference between these two handguns is that Cody Wilson’s Liberator is 3D printed, while Mark Serbu’s creation is crafted using “traditional” methods. I’d be interested to see what the Department of State has to say about this if he decides to publish the schematics and instructions online.