You really need a factory to make them, especially if you want to make as many as the government will have. But running such a factory would be difficult to hide and you're dependent on large amounts of raw materials and products from other suppliers so there's a lot of ways that illegal operation would get shut down.
A distributed cottage industry would be better. In any case, if they can't stop the illegal drug trade, they wouldn't be able to stop illegal killbots.
You really need a factory to make them, especially if you want to make as many as the government will have. But running such a factory would be difficult to hide and you're dependent on large amounts of raw materials and products from other suppliers so there's a lot of ways that illegal operation would get shut down.
A distributed cottage industry would be better. In any case, if they can't stop the illegal drug trade, they wouldn't be able to stop illegal killbots.