Well built tools that just sit around can last a damned long time, especially materials that won't rust like aluminum and such. Pre-War Fallout canonically built stuff to last, so a lot of it is still laying around 200 years later. Even crazy shit like biogel to keep brains alive has lasted that...
He will get replaced by an equally hateful retard who wants to eradicate Scottish people, rinse and repeat. You have to remove the entire political structure and put in safeguards against the creeps who have snuck in.
1: Almost every mook in Fallout aside from the most isolated of tribes has seen and probably used an actual firearm
2: The tools and equipment to build actual firearms are quite common in the wasteland because, well, everyone got nuked so all those tasty garages are still laying around!
You're only furthering my point, the guy who killed Abe didn't use some sort of drum-magazine rusty splintered wood semi automatic with a miraculously rifled barrel.
He used an electronically primed muzzleloader blunderbuss.
We know what 'guns built by people who don't have real guns' look like. They're muzzleloaders, primitive slamfire shotguns, hell even the Luty submachinegun looks somewhat decent in a garage-built way.
But you know what 'real' ersatz guns look like? Not pieces of rusty shit that'll explode in...
Funny story about that, because Bethesda is the laziest fucking company and reuses animations as much as possible despite having so many unique models and textures, two guns ingame use side mounted magazines all using the same reload animations.
Assault rifle and pipe pistol have the same...
Stampings are actually kinda hard to do for small-time gunsmiths, they require complicated and large stamping machines. For example even the soviet union post-war struggled to get the AKM operational and they were stamping all sorts of stuff beforehand.
Stamping is basically super awesome for...
D:> Whoah! Notice how it applies several rules of gunsmithing? Like the fucking magazine being in line with the bolt!? And what's this? It's not made of rusty nails and splintered wood!?
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/14598
This is my favorite 'pipe gun replacer' mod, because tube-SMG's are what you'd end up making with the most basic of tools.
Some of those look okay, but some still have the 'more likely to kill it's user' appearance to them.
FO2 has a 'pipe rifle' which is the most basic-bitch breechloader you can imagine, with a solid wood stock. It has no bells and whistles such as semi auto fire or magazines which are much more...