If you’ve seen such tv shows as OZ, The Wire or anything of the sort, chances are you’ve seen some brilliantly hacked together tattoo guns made from little more than approved items found in the prison commissary.
Needless to say, these prison tinkerers aren’t starting with anything close to a DIY Build Your Own Tattoo Gun Kit –– and more often than not, they likely don’t even have tools to build something even with the few parts that they may be able to scrap together.
More recently, A&E took a closer look at the build process that goes into one of these surprisingly effective DIY tattoo gun solutions made from parts stripped from otherwise innocent objects including a Walkman, paper clips, a pen, batteries and a few rubber bands:
