Although US customs laws ban importing the weapons, parts kits-which include most original components of a Kalashnikov variant- are legal. The AK-47, perhaps the world’s best-known gun, is so easy to make and so hard to break that the Soviet-designed original has spawned countless variants, updated and modified versions churned out by factories all over the globe. Most of us are strangers, but we share a common bond: We are just eight hours away from having our very own AK-47-one the government will never know about. I’m with a dozen other guys, some sipping coffee, others making introductions over the buzz of an air compressor. The walls, dusty and stained, are lined with shelves of tools.
Foldout tables ring the edges of the room, surrounding two orange shop presses. I first lay eyes on them one Saturday morning in the garage of an eggshell-white industrial complex near Los Angeles. The wooden and steel parts I need to build my untraceable AK-47 fit within a slender, 15-by-12-inch cardboard box.
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