there are some kinds of technology that are so ubiquitous that they can be found in any human civilization, like fire and weapons. just as the combination of widely available cell phones and discarded explosives in iraq feed the constant carnage of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), firearms are made just about anywhere on this earth, often milled by hand. these examples from chechnya are elegant, in the way that most open-source designs communicate how they work (and how to make them) at the same time as they serve almost as usefully as their namesakes.
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