Posted on 03/31/2015 4:19:09 AM PDT by Kartographer
A group of gunsmiths just 3D printed a bigger, better caliber rifle.
PrintedFirearm.com , a website devoted to 3D printing of guns, announced that one of its members successfully developed a lower receiver for a Colt CM901 rifle. The receiver for the CM901—which is considered to be a much stronger brother of the infamous AR-15 assault rifle—was crafted on a XYZ Da Vinci printer, which normally costs around $500 - considered cheap in the 3D printer world. While they were not the first to 3D print a lower receiver, it seems as if Printed Firearm has taken an evolutionary step.
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Waiting for the ban on assault printers...
I saw that, too - nope, no anti-gun bias here...
A group of gunsmiths just 3D printed a bigger, better caliber rifle.
It’s like saying they 3D printed a car when they printed a dashboard.
Lower receiver more like printing the transmission for a car. The big deal is How is the ATF going to prevent someone without a FFL from printed them?
Lower receiver more like printing the transmission for a car.
But now like I said you make it at home and no license required.
Yeah. I really get that.
My problem is with the article’s title and the satement in the first paragraph. There is no 3D printing of a gun here. Rather, it’s the 3D printing of a part of a gun.
Enough for the lefties to run with. Coming to an executive pen and phone near you: requiring a bckground check to buy parts or ammo.
I can see where the gov’t may try to ban private ownership of 3D Printers and strictly regulate commercial use designing some type of red flag issue to warrant it, probably create a huge bureaucracy to enforce it.
I did read somewhere about a year ago that 3D Printers can be used to make 3D Printers so such a ban would not have an adverse effect on those who would aggressively resist gov’t efforts to dissolve our Rights.
First time I've ever known the media to swerve into the fact that the lower receiver was the part ATF considered "a gun."
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