Designing a Gun in Norway - Overview

[@glass1258]

Sadly Mark was detained at the border for manufacturing digital firearms in a digital firearm free zone .

[@KonradSeverinHilstad]

Norway has one of the highest gun ownership rates in Europe :^) Im Norwegian and have a few myself. ;)

[@bilbo_gamers6417]

​@@KonradSeverinHilstad amazing. love me some northern european guns...

[@tyrisnolam]

@@KonradSeverinHilstadthat's true for long guns, but this is a demonic assault PISTOL!

[@ETC_Rohaly_USCG]

A modern day take on a “Liberator”, I love it!!!❤

[@HebrewHammerArmsCo]

If you read this, When you get back to Oslo, You NEED to visit the Military museum... It has an amazing Small Arms Collection.

[@TheKonkylien]

Hope you enjoyed Ålesund. I live on the islands just west of Ålesund, so you visiting here was quite a surprise.💪

[@davidwiechecki9205]

I'd recommend a magazine to hold extra rounds. Obviously, since this isn't a semi-automatic they wouldn't feed through the gun and you'd have to remove the magazine to reload but at least the ammo would be close to hand. And it would be better than the old Liberator where the ammo is just loose in the grip.

[@Mihail2204]

He could integrate an upside down magazine into the grip, so the feeding lips are at the bottom and you can just strip a round from there, someone did this with the altor9

[@tenlittleindians]

We made hydraulic fittings for John Deere in the 70's by the hundreds of thousands. To assemble the individual screw machine components into the fittings we used small rings of copper wire inserted into grooves we had machined into the components while on the screw machines. These parts then were loaded into a big furnace to melt the copper which brazed the pieces together. Your barrel in this barrel frame could be made the same way. We then sent the parts to the cadmium plating department. Not as shiny as Nickel but more than a few guys at work plated their old shotguns and rifles while I worked there.

[@markserbu]

@tenlittleindians Very interesting, thanks! The barrel could definitely be brazed in, but I'd prefer to have it be removable so that different calibers could easily be used. And if you didn't know...cadmium is now considered to be a BAD heavy metal by the environmentalists, and they're trying to phase it out.

[@tenlittleindians]

@@markserbu Almost all the shops did in house plating decades ago. One by one the EPA made it cost prohibitive and they farmed it out to the specialty plating shops and those also closed their doors. I still see the plated parts in the hardware stores and on the tractors so they must have sent the work to third world countries without an EPA. It would be almost impossible to find nuts and bolts that aren't still cadmium plated. Somebody is still doing a lot of plating. The guys would hand off their gun parts to the player and he would wait until the plating solution was changed out before doing their parts. It's always brighter and more chrome like when fresh. As far as actual chrome goes; those places shut down even before the cadmium shops. I had to drive across the river into Wisconsin in the mid 70's to have my Harley parts plated. Nobody local could do chrome anymore here in Iowa because of the EPA regulations on hazardous waste. Those shops in Wisconsin have been closed for decades now too. Getting the chemicals for plating is still easy. Getting rid of the waste is almost impossible.

[@bdbooher]

In the spirit of reusing parts, if you have a spring pushing the barrel catch forward, you could then us an AR safety lever to push the barrel catch into lock. Could maybe put a tab on the trigger bar to interface with the safety as well, sort of a out of battery safety. Nice thing about AR safeties is they are very readily available and come in ambi versions.

[@justinspringstun5836]

You should make a high quality 12 gauge flare gun!! Like a high end version of the classic orange Orian Walmart flare guns. Just something very much like those but metal construction. Something all metal and a locking breech. That could potentially fire 12 gauge flares and 12 gauge Bear Bangers too. Just an idea please consider it. All the 12 gauge flare guns are super cheesy. I would absolutely buy an all metal survival 12 gauge flare gun!!! A Serbu Flare gun sounds freaking awesome!!!

[@yourlocaltoad5102]

A 12 gauge flare gun with a proper metal barrel would just be a short barrelled shotgun and so it would be a NFA item.

[@arthurmoore9488]

@@yourlocaltoad5102 Bah, NFA stopping things that are fun but stupidly impractical.

[@2bitmarketanarchist337]

Just buy a surplus 26.5 flare gun and get shell adapters to 12 gauge flare. Do not shoot 12 gauge shot shells through it. Legal things aside they're probably not strong enough. You can get 410/45 colt adapters though that it'll be able to handle

[@Sylencer1982]

Here's an idea: The barrel has some external threads on the front, and screws into the barrel support. The front sight is then slid into a groove into the top of the barrel and pinned through the barrel support, preventing the barrel from unscrewing. It's kinda like how the little detent with an AR buffer tube works to help prevent rotation.

[@Sylencer1982]

For extra pizzaz, you could use a stock barrel from another firearm that just uses the barrel threads to screw into the front of the barrel support. I wouldn't know how that one'd work at the rear, though...

[@9mmthroatpunch211]

Timing the barrel screw would have to be perfect unless sight groove is cut afterwards unless I'm missing something...I hate timing threads

[@Tunkkis]

That's almost exactly how the MP-18 barrel is retained in the receiver tube. Time is a four-sided cube and whatnot.

[@loganmoore7129]

Have you seen the new m&p shield 5.7 pistol? It uses a barrel with an outer shroud thing similar to this but they designed it to function best with the 5.7 cartridge.

[@longonbon9676]

Good idea!

[@brian70Cuda]

After watching vid after vid Mark, I'm so very thankfull every day I live in the great USA!! Thank you.

[@Joatle]

Nice to see you having a little holiday in our beautiful Norway :) Western Norway is incredibly beautiful with fjords and mountains :) Cheers from Norway :)

[@Joatle]

By the way, did you know that you do not need any approval to buy a silencer in Norway? It's just a shame we can't buy as many cool guns as you can in most states in the US 😜

[@nitrodasnipaz9392]

Time to make a primarily printed 22 version of this for fun! Looks like it's doable with 2 springs, a screw and a penny

[@secretsquirrel1534]

I am Glad that You are Enjoying Your Vacation !!! Keep up the Fun Work that We Do !!! Love Ya Bro !!!

[@alaskanbas6507]

I had so many nerdgasms watching this, I didn't even know I could have so many in such a short amount of time 🙃🤓 Designing guns in international waters sounds very based, I wonder if it would be possible to set up an arms factory on a platform in international waters. Seems pretty Swiss to me Seeing more of Norway would be cool!

[@jef____4054]

Smashing video Mark! Not that I would ever make one but good CAD modeling in mine craft 👍🏼

[@jamesgravel7755]

Definitely not American.

[@eduardohermoso150]

Maybe it would be possible to design a slide barrel assembly a bit similar to the Beretta tip up barrel models and adapt this assembly to a standard 1911 frame assembly. Making these into .22lr and 9mm would be practical since these are the popular calibers in many places.

[@Subgunman]

Mark, include some videos of where you visit! It’s always nice to see other places! A little gun history on the countries visited as well.

[@PAFronteri]

Greetings from Norway😁 I assume you are taking the boat from fjord to fjord, it should be a lovely trip. If you have the chance you should try to get over to Kongsberg where they had the Kongbserg Våpenfabrikk (Weapon factory) and of you are in the area let me know. I Just got a rare Sjögren semi auto shotgun you should take a look at😁👍 its approx 1-1.5 hour west of Oslo😁 Ps, just a tip. When saying Ålesund. You get closer speaking the Å by using O instead og A. Hope you enjoy your Vacation still in Norway😁

[@myfavoritemartian1]

1:20 There goes Roy enjoying himself again.

[@OveToranger]

Welcome to Norway, hope you have a nice time !

[@smellycat249]

This was cool. Can you do more detailed CAD design explanations?

[@fnym9rdsavsffdik9a25]

he probably cant do it on youtube since youtube's rules are extremely restrictive compared to other places, maybe rumble, bitchute or odysee would be more suitable options (assuming of course that mark actually want to do it)

[@NitrogenPurged]

Ahhh solid works. The place where dreams come to life.

[@VS-ff4ez]

Firing pin reminds me of a Raven 25 firing pin. This would be a cool home build. I like it!

[@jackgreenstalk777]

Thanks for sharing. Love these cad walk thrus explaininh gun design

[@pallien7501]

Hope you have a nice trip here in Norway. You might find a lot of interesting museums here too.

[@KorianHUN]

It is very interesting to see the perspective of an actual gun designer on this kind of work. What is most interesting is the complexity of parts. As far as i saw in gun related articles around the world, news reports at home and some police exhibitions of homemade guns form criminals the key to those builds is eliminating any kind of complex machining operation. Parts are made from slices and then pinned/welded together.

[@shadowlab9543]

neat blaster !!! like the bobcat/tomcat barrel assembly

[@stefanmolnapor910]

Interesting, Thanks! More of Norway... and The Guns of Norway!

[@kriseckhardt5148]

TULIO MARENGONI WOULD BE IMPRESSED! Thanks Mark Serbu great video!

[@girenloland]

Welcome to Norway Mark. Not expecting you here. Have a nice vacation

[@frankbrowning328]

IMO this is the best looking Corvette(post 1960's) ever. And it's a world class sportscar

[@StreetDreams204]

Nice vacation destination choice. Now I want to kayak there.

[@jonassmith8100]

Great idea! You could actually use a lot of the design features from the 1984 HK flaregun. I like the idea to make it 9mm using a surplus berreta 92 barrel and slide, of course you would have to weld or pin them together and modify to adapt to your design. Endless ideas about and calibers 22lr, 22mag, 380, .410...........🤔

[@larsandreasrisy4402]

Gøy å se deg i Norge Mark😃 Ålesund er i nærheten av mitt årlige feriested hvor min far kommer ifra. Håper du har hatt en super tur 👍 Nice to see you in Norway Mark😃 Ålesund is close to my annual holiday, where my father is from. Hope you had a great trip 👍 Ps. Make the gun a single shot in .45 auto with a threaded barrel,so you can use a supressor. Would be a quiet one😁

[@Kaboomf]

Oddly enough, here in Norway even your blank firing version would be regulated like a real gun as being "readily convertible" to firing live rounds. However, 3d files and blueprints for guns aren't really regulated so you can work on your computer quite legally.

[@ryansmithza]

Thats awesome, I can't wait to try print the lower. Thnaks for the video.

[@anon_y_mousse]

It's kind of funny that here in Texas they're most definitely legal, but I've never seen them in any hardware store I've been in, all national chains, of course. I don't even know where an old-timey hardware store is, but I'd love to visit one and see if they have them.

[@Kineth1]

Lowe's has them.

[@anon_y_mousse]

@@Kineth1 Maybe it depends on the Lowe's you go into. I'll have to check the one near where I live now.

[@Kineth1]

@@anon_y_mousse I usually check their inventory online before I try to pick something up. My local one seems to only have rimfire .22

[@anon_y_mousse]

@@Kineth1 I usually don't bother with checking online anymore because those chain stores don't always keep up and I've been lied to a lot in the past by them. While not of the same variety of store, Best Buy has been one of the worst, especially when you ask someone at the store to check the inventories of other stores in the area and they say this one across town has 5 and you get there and they say they're sold out.

[@BOOYAGA]

Mark, u were in Norway 👀💪🇳🇴 That's essentially a celebrity visiting ✌️

[@edmundvalero6841]

Hope you enjoyed Norway Mark!!! So cool seeing you design a gun in Norway

[@ianfarquharson3772]

Lucky you got to do a cruise like that as I think their stopping them soon. Would be nice to see a bit of everything.ThankQ.TkEZ>UK

[@SCAxman]

Oh and add a lug to the tip-up section that trips an automatic ejector that runs the length under the barrel

[@AldoSchmedack]

Use a swapable firing pin. One type for rimfire, then swap barrel and firing pin and boom, new caliber. Takedown could be you unlatch then tip barrel far enough forward and it simply slips out. Makes caliber swap or barrel disposing easier.

[@AldoSchmedack]

Added: Also use ceramic pins if ya don't want metal. Use a grade that isn't brittle. Toughness not hardness is key in engineering/metalurgical terms. And 3d print a rail, can tune it well enough if plastic with files. Grip space can be used to store ammo. Also ITAR sucks! We shoudln't be a part of it!

[@josephcormier5974]

Thank you I always get ideas from you excellent video and yes show more of Norway please six stars brother

[@denpabacon8501]

Berretta Tomcat/Bobcat's use a tip up barrel with the similar kind of latching mechanism, might be able to take some inspiration from those models.

[@SCAxman]

Add an ambi paddle-style magazine release that isn't a mag release it tips up the barrel

[@Friedbrain11]

Push button from the left toward the right side would work for the barrel release. Already I am figuring out how to make aluminum/steel version for 22 rimfire. Show Norway places also. It is a beautiful country.

[@AsteroidSpy]

Hope you have a good vacation here in norway

[@nearenuff8796]

Trigger and trigger bar could be one piece if the trigger bar was made to flex, it would also act as the trigger return spring

[@aarafnasr6743]

Hey Mark, I'm a fresh mechanical engineer graduate and I want to start a career in the small arms design I did my own research on internal ballistics and blowback online but still feels like missing a lot and don't know where to start to make my own design can you make a tutorial video on ansys and solidworks for beginners or a general guide video for those interested in gun design? Thanks

[@ryanmurphy7290]

when you get back let us know your favorite places you visited or saw from a distance.. gorgeous country from what ive seen in videos.

[@MrTrollHunter]

Wow, basically in my neighborhood, just a couple of hours away, so yeah I would like to see more of what you would look at while being over here

[@Gunbudder]

I love bobcat style pistols! i don't know why, but its so fun to pop the barrel open and breech load a round. maybe its my inner child wanting to be a cowboy breech loading an old timey carbine. i wonder if your design could just straight up use a bobcat barrel with its latch? if i remember right, the bobcat doesn't even need a mag inserted to fire repeatedly (assuming you load more rounds by hand)

[@ronkka9710]

What software did you use to design this?

[@phil2082]

...I am about to get laid off again. I am an engineer that just graduated right after COVID started. I think I may take you up on this. Free body diagram, pressure vessels, math, etc. It's been a while since I last broke out my textbooks for material science. I don't think I can actually make the design in my state, but I do think that this should be makable on easier tools than a gigantic CNC mill and/or CNC lathe. I don't like 1911 parts, because I don't have cheap access to such parts. I do like the idea of changing the lock mechanism to use a ball bearing, like padlocks do.

[@theothermikeg]

I see some real potential for a neat cheap target pistol with this design. 1911 hammer and sear are super easy to tune and the sight options are limitless. What chambering..... maybe 221 fireball with a 8" barrel

[@terryatherton2881]

Thanks for sharing.

[@CerealKiller187]

😂 love you man, love your work.

[@predelavky]

Why does a blank firing gun with gas exit holes pointing upwards need sights ? To have a fancy look?

[@MG.50]

Love to see more of Scandinavia. You might build a second career as a travel reviewer.

[@karolstruck9822]

Thanks Mark personally I would like both I wouldn't mind seeing your trip and of course your designs of things that go bang. I try not to use that word with KZbin as it might throw a red flag

[@mrkeogh]

Only Mark Serbu would suggest building a single-shot, tipping barrel pocket gun in *10mm Auto* 😄 With a really good trigger, mind you.

[@Postal0311]

One chambered in .308 to fire the German blue plastic training ammo would make for a fun and loud parlor pistol.

[@Subgunman]

There was some Swiss training ammo that was blue that would chamber in a 9mm barrel. The true Swiss practice barrel was equipped with a small bore to accept the BB that is on the end. The barrel was marked in the color red to denote it as for practice rounds only. I do not remember which Swiss machine gun it was designed for. Mark, let’s see excerpts of your trip as well! There are some wonderful areas up that way!

[@jeffcameron7853]

LOL, yeah nice vacay, but more guns please!

[@dannypeto8734]

Move the barrel forward and make an Auto Loader clip fed, make lake a bretta with pop up barel.

[@qrplife]

If I were capable and motivated to do the additional engineering and manufacturing that old man Serbu talks about, I might consider this a platform for .25 ACP - almost .22 but center fire. Of course availability might be a issue, but with this single shot design, a box might last you a while.

[@KorianHUN]

Some polish guy built machineguns with blanks or nailgun cartridges fitted into cartridge shaped adapters made on his lathe, i think they were glued in with a bullet pressed in from the front. A few years ago his videos were still on youtube with the description saying he won't be back as police took him and his guns.

[@7mmstw100]

how cool .,im a fan and from this place, 😀

[@VimmiiPOV]

Hope you are enjoying (or enjoyed) Norway, tho recently our weather has been... Interesting haha

[@titter3648]

Welcome to Norway. We are actually nice people when you just get trough our hard shell and aversion to start talking to strangers. You are going to Lysefjorden right? With Kjeragbolten and Preikestolen.

[@briankerr4512]

what do you need sights on a blank gun ... ?

[@silasearl3169]

You're a great teacher and Entertaining. OOS OOS

[@chrissmith-qm1vi]

Very cool project.

[@fanero3046]

Can you do a series of videos in which you design and commentate on how you develope a toy gun like that one?

[@superdutyspinner]

Awesome discussion Mark

[@No-One-of-Consequence]

I have noticed that a lot of 3D gun designers are using AR15 fire control groups to avoid reinventing the wheel. I know the Mac-10 I'm looking into is using a AR15 FCG, and it means that the end result will not look so much like the orginal Mac-10, but will allow me to use any aftermarket trigger, so while I lose out on aesthetics, I can wind up with a much better firearm. Obviously no one is using systems from prior designs that aren't highly respected and long proven systems, but I would like to know if you think there's any danger to innovation generally by the constant recycling of gun parts, even if they were originally designed, like your hammer and sear, by a by-God genius engineer like John Moses Browning. He was, after all, The Man. By not customizing every part to each design, though, are we risking missing out on the chance to discover and make something even greater?

[@KorianHUN]

Looks like a ton of homemade guns form Mexico to China use a simple single action system, oldest real version i've seen was the Beretta 1934. It is extremely simple and could be modified to work in any design. But the AR system works better for printing since americans can just either buy them or get the springs and pins, with everything being already calculated to work well. The pistol system isn't as uniform, ha smaller parts and requires a lot of hand fitting.

[@KaletheQuick]

What's the diameter on those trigger and connecting pins? Asking for a me. My designs.

[@littlehills739]

3mm alignment dowel pins on fle bay

[@AverageGunDesigner]

Very nice and simple!

[@Rolf-farmedfacts-supervisor]

Bergen, western Norway here, please visit our more narrow fjords👍👍🇺🇸🇳🇴

[@d.noneyabusiness8523]

Good stuff. Cool stuff.!!👍👍🗽

[@frenchfrey65]

I have a super dumb question. Your company makes .50 BMG rifles There's a lever action carbine chambered in .500 S&W Magnum There's an AR-15 chambered in .50 Beowulf Is there a way we could get a carbine chambered in .50 AE or .50 GI?

[@antonioesposito8071]

Hi, do you have any suggestion about books on gun design/engineering?

[@beltfedTODDRULZ]

As a computer idiot could that frame also be done with sheet metal and spacers like the Cobray Derringers?

[@solreavir]

Can you work on Milsim paintball designs too? would love to see a mag fed co2 1911 in .50cal

[@SynthRockViking]

Cool lol I wouldn't build a gun in Norway, but that's just me 😂

[@AldoSchmedack]

So how would you even figure it out engineering wise how much force is trying to open a swivel/locked open breach like that? People assume they would never pop open but indeed they do without a small lockup. Flare guns and boxlocks for example. Curious to know the basics.

[@markserbu]

@AldoSchmedack You create something called a "free body diagram". The bullet going forward creates and equal and opposite force. Based on the line of action of that force, you get a torque around the barrel pivot pin. This torque is countered by the latch. There's friction and inertia and other things that factor in. I'm sure I'll do a video on it one of these days.

[@BerndFelsche]

3 to 5 minutes of Norway please. Just the way you see the Republic of Statoil. 😉

[@gangsterpranksters3724]

Just curious what material would you make an actual barrel out of it if you didn’t wanna buy one and you want to do that build to

[@BerndFelsche]

How often you fire blanks will determine materials choice... I'm not even allowed to model a gun in Australia.

[@littlehills739]

you can ;) any single shot gun pree 1900 isnt a gun in vic mate or qld so you can buy and tinker with a muzzle loader pre 1900 year

[@BerndFelsche]

​@@littlehills739 ; I'm in the State previously under the eloquent rule of Mark Mugabe. Former Police comiss' is now Governor and his Missus acts like Hyacinth Buc'ket ; having lawful protesters on the public footpath outside the residence arrested for "stalking". In the largest non-nation State in the world; we have the most absurd "firearm" laws. That includes not being in the possession of technical drawings that can be used to manufacture guns. It is also the State in which the government/police choose not to abide by their own laws when it comes to publicity exercises. e.g. firing a 50 cal rifle on a range where it is not safe to do so. I learned during a brief stay in East Germany that where the application and interpretation of law is arbitrary; one has to keep one's head down.

[@Zachmman1997]

Mark at the off chance you see this is it legal to build a blank firing machine gun? Got a whole lotta .22 blanks that I’m scratching to use up 😂 Is there a way to make it legal? I assume it cannot fire a real cartridge or something?

[@Mihail2204]

Depends where you are but as a general rule you have to have a fixed barrel to the frame, the obstruction has to be a specific hardness and only 1cm of the front can be clear for threading on a flare adapter, but if the gun exceeds 60cm in length then it doesn’t need the whole barrel to be blocked but the majority of the front does have to be to avoid muzzleloading, there are no regulations against what materials you can use to construct it(can be zamak5, aluminum, steel, etc) if you do not obstruct the barrel correctly it would be a “readily convertible” machine gun

[@k.s.8959]

if you designed something like this or like the GB22 while you're in Norway - does ITAR apply?

[@imilliemedina666]

A clamshell construction seems more practical than a one piece. Also, I'm a little unclear about the headdpace, it looks like a gap in the lower half hemisphere

[@backyardforge5568]

Hi Mark, I'm from Norway, I've heard numerous times that the cruise along Norway are boring and for old people, are you confirming this by designing guns on your computer? Love your work and vids, don't want to be a troll, just laughing inside me here of it, would have said the same ftf 😂

[@TheCandBExperience]

You are a true patriot.

[@J84727]

Rounded hammer with center cut-out as rear sight?

[@cuchucho2111]

What kind of design program is that???

[@joshawageorge2122]

I'm surprised that you didn't design a latch for a release of the chamber/barrel I noticed some holes in the lock ,but no ejector for the spent round.a shotgun style ejector would probably work ,but its your design so you know!🤔😏😀😁😂😎

[@yomust0of]

what are you doing to move your view in solidworks like that? is there some kind of USB tool I'm not aware of? because it doesn't look like normal mouse movement.

[@t3r083]

it's one of those with the spherical ball roller thing

[@PhilDavis-nt2cc]

Mark is there any way i could get custom micro engraving in the chamber for the used brass, (not like anything offensive) just asking

[@StepSherpa]

That sounds like an absolute pain

[@briankerr4512]

What CAD program do you use ?

[@warrior-0f-light]

SolidWorks

[@BerndFelsche]

ISTM that all the cavity otherwise occupied by a magazine is "wasted" and could be employed by a better hammer and trigger geometry using 3D printable parts. e.g. a hammer with integrated spring so that only a small metal pin is needed to strike the primer.

[@johnnyk5]

This, but double barrel has been rattling around in my head for a while!