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The Worst Attempt At A Homemade Gun.. Ever

Australian police apparently are having a problem with what one California lawmaker would term ghost guns, only they are more junk and less gun.

To quote the Daily Telegraph, “Record numbers of homemade guns made from materials easily sourced at local hardware stores are hitting the streets, with teenage boys in the city’s southwest and outlaw bikie gangs the prime market.”

And man oh man did they crack a sad by publishing first, about the cheesiest gun they could find– likely changing the grading curve for underground DIY zip gun makers all over the continent– but then compounded their Foster’s worthy picture with a diagram that looks as if a team of koalas worked on it all through the night. Seriously, do they not have pop tarts in Australia?

Check out the “diagram” below:

Is Amazon’s Brick-and-Mortar Store A Facade For E-Commerce?

Experts think the company intends to sell more than hardcovers, paperbacks, and Kindles at its retail location.

Amazon has launched a new brick-and-mortar bookstore, but did it actually leave its heart in the web?
Dubbed Amazon Books, the new retail store is open at University Village in Seattle.

In an announcement on Tuesday, Amazon Books vice president Jennifer Cast called the store “a physical extension of Amazon.com,” adding that the company has used the knowledge it’s gained over the last two decades about consumer tastes to create a desirable in-store shopping experience.

“The books in our store are selected based on Amazon.com customer ratings, pre-orders, sales, popularity on Goodreads, and our curators’ assessments,” Cast wrote in the announcement. “These are fantastic books! Most have been rated 4 stars or above, and many are award winners.”