Gives new meaning to the term "gun printing"

[marky]

Man Creates Homemade Gun With 3D Printer



http://www.opposingviews.com/i/topgu...gun-3d-printer


I love the flag in this video. No agenda there!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqzJlBcCsow

[MLESa7990]

Find this very hard to believe

[tv_racin_fan]

Find this very hard to believe

What is hard to believe? A polymer lower for an AR? Or that you could program one of those "3d printers" to print a lower?

I don't find it hard to believe at all. But then a firearm is not all that hard to make.

[marky]

I've read of guys being able to fire off a few rounds using a modified Airsoft lower!

[TheTman]

I have an article about a car that had all it's parts printed on a 3D printer and it was drivable, and ran ok. 3D printing is a wld new technology jusy now taking off. I've invested in a few companies working to perfect the technology. One of them hopes to use some type of human cells to print replacement organs (hearts, livers, kidneys, etc) for use in transplants, they are working to add the transplantee's DNA into the tissue so they won't have rejection issues. Right now the technology is in it's infancy, and they expect great things to come of it. I invested in some stocks, hoping to get into the next Apple or Microsoft while the stock is still affordable.

[MLESa7990]

What is hard to believe? A polymer lower for an AR? Or that you could program one of those "3d printers" to print a lower?

I don't find it hard to believe at all. But then a firearm is not all that hard to make.

Guess I either read into the article too much or not enough. I got the impression that he suppository made an entire rifle with the thing. But just the low is believable.

[jlottmc]

Don't forget that there are what are basically desktop CNC machines and mills out there as well, both controlled with a PC. It would not be hard for a person with little machine working know how to make a gun in their garage.

[Scoundrel]

Guess I either read into the article too much or not enough. I got the impression that he suppository made an entire rifle with the thing. But just the low is believable.

It would be possible, using the right materials, to make an entire rifle.
But, you'd have to make each part separately, not as a single printing job, sand them all down, fit them together. Lots of trial and error, and it would probably blow itself apart on the first shot. But eventually, this tech will work.

NASA is experimenting with 3D printing replacement parts so that they can take a printer and some material instead of a crapload of prefab replacement parts.

Star Trek Replicator, anyone?

[marky]

I thought he made the white one but he said “it was extremely large and ungainly" so I guess the black one is the final product?



"The existing design was intended to be made out of solid metal, so the gun maker altered it a bit by strengthening some of the lug holes and adding a trigger guard."

http://www.gizmag.com/first-3d-printed-firearm/23473/

[tv_racin_fan]

Guess I either read into the article too much or not enough. I got the impression that he suppository made an entire rifle with the thing. But just the low is believable.

Actually you read into it exactly what they wanted you to. THEY being anti gun they want you to think there is something wrong with a person having the ability to do such.

Fact is a firearm is very simple to make, a couple of levers and some springs makes a lock with a plate to hold it and a pan to hold a bit of powder. A tube makes a barrel. Threads on the inside of the tube at one end then a block of steel machined and threaded on the outside with an L bracket makes a breech plug. Drilled hole thru one part of that breech plug into a hollow on the inner part. A fitting on the end of one of those levers on the lock to hold a stone, some wood and screws to hold it together in the correct orientation and voila you have a working flintlock smoothbore.

[FatMatt]

The sheeple are terrified! I think it's great. Just imagine in 5-10 years what the advanced technology of 3d printing will be like. Awesome new technology with unlimited bounds and restrictions.

[AJBert]

Guess I either read into the article too much or not enough. I got the impression that he suppository an entire rifle with the thing. But just the low is believable.

Spell check really screws up sometimes!

[marky]

That sounds painful!

[MLESa7990]

Spell check really screws up sometimes!

haha dang, not bad:59:

[Planedude]

Having worked with objects "printed" out with that system during the F-35 development, well I'll just say no pistol round is low pressure enough to not blow their "gun" to kingdom come. That is a super cool tech-toy, but what comes out is just a "model" like we built from the five and dime store as kids. I built the old Pyro brand gun kits back in the day, but I would'nt put a live 45 long colt round into my old kit-built Peacemaker...

Is kind of like the Star Trek "replicators" though. Model guns are toys...