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Murray N Rothbard
12-29-2012, 11:33 AM
Have to admit...I was skeptical when I heard about this. But technology is advancing exponentially. The only thing in its way is the State.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/12/21/click-print-shoot-guns-made-on-3-d-printers-not-as-farfetched-idea-as-it-sounds/


Downloading a gun's design plans to your computer, building it on a three-dimensional printer and firing it minutes later. No background checks, no questions asked.

Sound far-fetched? It's not. And that is disquieting for gun control advocates.

Rep. Steven Israel, D-NY, said the prospect of such guns becoming reality is reason enough for the renewal of the Undetectable Firearms Act, which makes illegal the building of guns that can't be detected by X-ray or metallic scanners. That law expires at the end of 2013.

At least one group, called Defense Distributed, is claiming to have created downloadable weapon parts that can be built using the increasingly popular new-generation of printer that utilizes plastics and other materials to create 3D objects with moving parts. University of Texas law student Cody Wilson, the 24-year-old "Wiki Weapons" project leader, says the group last month test fired a semiautomatic AR-15 rifle -- one of the weapon types used in the Connecticut elementary school massacre -- which was built with some key parts created on a 3D printer. The gun was fired six times before it broke.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/12/21/click-print-shoot-guns-made-on-3-d-printers-not-as-farfetched-idea-as-it-sounds/#ixzz2GSlb6ZfY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ6Q3BfbVBU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNXNopodS6E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFhIxey5AXM
Machiavelli
12-29-2012, 11:55 AM
3D printing at its full potential will render so many laws and regulations obsolete.
belian78
12-29-2012, 12:58 PM
What is all this I'm hearing about 3D printing? I have to admit, I'm a severe layman when it comes to things like this. I know you can't 'print' a gun right out of a printer, so is this part of like, a high-tech lathe sorta thing?
Philosophy_of_Politics
12-29-2012, 01:00 PM
What is all this I'm hearing about 3D printing? I have to admit, I'm a severe layman when it comes to things like this. I know you can't 'print' a gun right out of a printer, so is this part of like, a high-tech lathe sorta thing?

It's essentially a printing press that works in a series of layers. Until a fully "sculpted" model is complete.
Cleaner44
12-29-2012, 01:01 PM
I love that technology is destroying the illusion of control by central planners!
AGRP
12-29-2012, 01:05 PM
The article reads like it was published by msnbc.
belian78
12-29-2012, 01:08 PM
It's essentially a printing press that works in a series of layers. Until a fully "sculpted" model is complete.
That I can make sense of, thanks. LOL
kahless
12-29-2012, 01:22 PM
You can see what is coming. 1 year jail time for having an unregistered 3d printing device. It will be illegal to possess or import this technology without a government license, background check and an expensive surety bond in NY.
Bohner
12-29-2012, 01:58 PM
Come talk to me when they can print an upper receiver that can come anywhere close to withstanding the strength and heat requirements of an actual gun.
pdavis
12-29-2012, 02:55 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFhIxey5AXM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFhIxey5AXM

http://defensedistributed.com/
Anti Federalist
12-29-2012, 03:35 PM
You can see what is coming. 1 year jail time for having an unregistered 3d printing device. It will be illegal to possess or import this technology without a government license, background check and an expensive surety bond in NY.

10 year.
Anti Federalist
12-29-2012, 03:36 PM
Come talk to me when they can print an upper receiver that can come anywhere close to withstanding the strength and heat requirements of an actual gun.

Or a rifled barrel or springs or heat treated shims and fasteners.

Not that big of a deal though really, a good CNC machine can do all that.
MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2
12-29-2012, 05:01 PM
Or a rifled barrel or springs or heat treated shims and fasteners.

Not that big of a deal though really, a good CNC machine can do all that.



Yeah, it's not like these things are currently built on a single machine at one time. There may come a time when that is possible, but someone else will be building ass kicking robots on several machines. The idea that one machine could or should do everything, kinda goes against basic economic concepts.
VIDEODROME
12-29-2012, 05:55 PM
maybe do a crossbow?
Warrior_of_Freedom
12-29-2012, 06:03 PM
you won't see me any time soon firing a plastic pistol. I want to live lol
ChristianAnarchist
12-29-2012, 11:53 PM
Last spring we bought a Makerbot Replicator which I got mainly to stimulate our son's creativity. Of course when I saw the plastic lower receiver I had to try it. Mine I tried 3 times with finally a marginal success. My last part did split between layers and I find this to be a problem with larger builds on this machine using ABS. I understand that PLA will not warp and de-laminate as bad so I will be getting some of that soon.

As a machinist, I was thinking that it could be possible to adapt this technology for a wire-feed welder head instead of plastic extruder type head. In this way, crude stainless or steel parts could be built with some minor finish work to complete the parts. I'm sure this or something even better is just around the corner...
Pericles
12-30-2012, 12:17 AM
Come talk to me when they can print an upper receiver that can come anywhere close to withstanding the strength and heat requirements of an actual gun.

That will be the point at which gun laws die. More so in countries that have total bans.