[marktwain]

The word on 3D printed Magazines is getting out.

[BipolarBob]

I prefer metal magazines myself. With that said, DDD has been on fire.

[EagleUSA]

More insanity. Take something away from law-abiding citizens, and then only criminals and the government (is that a duplication?) will have them.

*** CRIMINALS DO NOT OBEY LAWS ***

Ever pay attention to the Obama administration and how they do things? (that are illegal?)

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

If forty years ago, a Viet Cong in a backwater jungle blacksmith shop can turn out usable 30 round magazines for captured M-16s with just some sheet steel and tin snips what chance does a ban have?

[The Working Man]

The real killer of the Left’s plans is when you can print your own ammunition!

[Bryanw92]

Someone needs to start working on homemade caps and primers.

[apillar]

I wonder if Obama has ever heard of the law of unintended consequences? If I'm going to face prosecution and a lengthy jail sentence just for possessing a hi-cap magazine or not registering my “assault weapons”. Then I might as well take the next step and mod all my semi's to full automatic....

[Sybeck1]

Replicators?

[JoeFromSidney]

It's possible to make magazines for existing guns by 3D printing. However, the next step will be printing the guns. However, there will be redesign of the guns. First, the printed barrel must be wound with steel wire or fiberglass, to provide strength. Instead of using gunpowder, the gun will be an airgun, like those used by the Lewis & Clark expedition in the early 1800s. Their airguns were capable of putting a bullet through a small tree. Make the barrel smoothbore, and make the projectile a rifled slug. Probably it won't have the accuracy of a good sniper rifle, but it should be adequate for most purposes. The air pressure reservoir will have to be patterned after the high -pressure, fiberglass-wound air tanks used in missiles. The problem will be re-pressurizing in the field. It obviously can be done. Lewis & Clark managed it. Anyway, I think this is one way to go with a completely 3D printed gun.

[Greysard]

A stamping press could form and cut a hundred pieces in one cycle. There is no way to prevent mass manufacturing of such simple gun parts (they are simple, but only after a talented engineer designs them.) Magazines are intended to be as simple as possible because for every rifle in the army you need tens of magazines available - as all detachable parts in heavy use, they are issued, worn out, lost and damaged in battle.

Also, if they are all illegal, why to stop at 10 rounds if you can make 30? I'm sure the criminal underground will love the new business; there are tens of thousands of metalworkers in the country who have the skill, the machines, the facilities, but have no orders. (Who'd order from them, the Chinese?) They will be listening to the speeches of criminal bosses. If not, the boss will simply buy the shop (not necessarily for a fair price either.) Once the gang has the business up and running, what is to stop them from making locks, stocks and perhaps barrels? All unregistered, full-auto if the customer wants, and for a good price too! You don't even need to design the weapon - there are already lots of excellent designs, ready to be copied! Forget the Prohibition, this is the new goldmine. As the government prohibits manufacturing of new classes of firearms, the citizens will feel more and more need to have some. The crime world will gladly take their coin. That's how it was 90 years ago, and that's how it can be again.

[Eye of Unk]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2976274/posts

[SVTCobra03]

Will that thing make pmags?

[editor-surveyor]

Can you define this process a little better?

Exactly what would you ‘print’ on what?

[mountainlion]

We could print trillion dollar coins and ship them to treasury and save the country! /s