Release Agent: "Home Made Machine-gun"

So for those of you who didn't make it out to the show (I know the opening's hours were quite odd...) here is a shot of my sculpture taken with my mobile phone. The work is made solely of steal with a working two way hinge. It moves across two axises. I echoed the size and shape of .50 caliber browning machine-gun. Used heavily by our military and military contractors. It is also in use by the secret service in the President's motorcade. The idea for the sculpture stemmed from several conversations I've had with my brother over the last year. My brother is the only person I spend any real time talking to on the phone. Being four hours away it seems as though there is always some catching up to do. But we always spend at least a few minutes conceptualizing or brain storming about one thing or another. During these conversations the idea of government came up. We talked about everything from apocalyptic scenarios to upheavals. One of the comments my brother made sparked a vision in my mind's eye. He thought that if the United States Government were to declared Martial Law that a militia wouldn't stand a chance because of the advanced weaponry the U.S. Army controls, ergo, negating the second amendment. We both concluded that any militia would have to be able to create a large amount advanced weaponry within a small time frame to enact the second amendment to its fullest potential. Not that I would condone such a militia, nor do I care, but the idea of not being able to control one's government is a scary prospect to any citizen. So this was my attempt to represent that idea or at least its iteration. I can certainly replicate the size and shape of a .50 caliber and use the same materials. But can I actually create a weapon with such fire power that it would injure enough people to control an entire army? I don't know. And personally I don't really want to find out.