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World’s First 3D Printed Metal Gun Successfully Fires 600+ Rounds
CNSNews ^ | 11/13/2013 | Barbara Hollingsworth

Posted on 11/14/2013 9:33:44 PM PST by rktman

The world’s first 3D printed metal firearm, “a classic 1911 design,” has been successfully fired more than 600 times, according to Solid Concepts, a California-based 3D printing company.

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TOPICS: Science; Society
KEYWORDS: 3d; banglist; guncontrol
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Video included. You can bet some asshat in kalifornia will try to put a stop to this. Even if the folks that produced it have an FFL.
1 posted on 11/14/2013 9:33:44 PM PST by rktman
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To: rktman; AFPhys; AD from SpringBay; ADemocratNoMore; aimhigh; AnalogReigns; archy; ...

Political power grows out of the nozzle of a 3-D Printer.

2 posted on 11/14/2013 9:35:22 PM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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Diane Fienstein is deeply concerned.


3 posted on 11/14/2013 9:36:17 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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Somewhere John Moses Browning is giggling like a schoolgirl. Who could possibly feel threatened by a 100-year-old firearms design? Ridiculous! Why, I haven’t seen one of those since...uh, well, since about 10 minutes ago.


4 posted on 11/14/2013 9:42:48 PM PST by Billthedrill
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Hang on I gotta go check and make sure mine is resting safely where it’s supposed to be.........................

Yup, sound asleep and not causing an issue. Awwww. They’re so cute when they’re sleeping.


5 posted on 11/14/2013 9:50:43 PM PST by rktman (Under my plan(scheme), the price of EVERYTHING will necessarily skyrocket! Period.)
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This is pretty freakin’ awesome! Finally, some GOOD news.


6 posted on 11/14/2013 9:55:39 PM PST by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
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Meanwhile, the ATF is in a complete panic. What happens to their carefully crafted gun control when you can 3D print what you want — no paperwork, either. Oh, dear. It doesn’t matter what kind of legislation or regulations they concoct, the technology has other commercial applications besides making forearms.


7 posted on 11/14/2013 10:02:29 PM PST by MasterGunner01
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LOL! “forearms”? We talkin’ Popeye style forearms? I know, it’s late.


8 posted on 11/14/2013 10:04:42 PM PST by rktman (Under my plan(scheme), the price of EVERYTHING will necessarily skyrocket! Period.)
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We can't say fir**rms due to NSA eavesdropping. LOL
9 posted on 11/14/2013 10:29:01 PM PST by MasterGunner01
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Not to mention how fast the price is coming down for one these units. Just a couple of years ago, it would have cost $30 grand for a 3-D printer. They can now be bought for $2,000.


10 posted on 11/14/2013 10:32:48 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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Laws cannot stop innovation & guns are not going to vanish.


11 posted on 11/14/2013 10:35:45 PM PST by Republican1795.
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Meanwhile, the ATF is in a complete panic.

Look foward to more intense regulation of ammunition.

12 posted on 11/14/2013 10:37:24 PM PST by ClaytonP
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Yikes!


13 posted on 11/14/2013 10:49:18 PM PST by billys kid ("Bury me on my head for one day this world will be upside down." (Diogenes))
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Wake me up when they make a 3D food maker:


14 posted on 11/14/2013 10:50:39 PM PST by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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The type of laser sintering printer used to make this is around half a million dollars.

But look for similar machines to drop to 25k in 5 years or so.

In ten years a desktop assembler that can do this and also make the ammo will be 10k.

In 20 years the assembler will be 2k and will also make pharmaceuticals and biological materials.

This tech is coming of age and undergoing an accelerating capability growth combined with drops in prices....similar to computers in the last few decades.

I use tiny processors that cost less than 5 dollars that have more power than an old Cray2 supercomputer. The Cray clocked in at 824 MIPS. It's now a hunk-o-junk less capable than your smartphone. Expect similar expansion of capabilities and lowering of cost in 3D printing and desktop assemblers.


15 posted on 11/14/2013 11:17:32 PM PST by Bobalu (Socialism - trickle up poverty.)
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...maybe now the drug cartels can manufacture their own weapons and not pressure Holder anymore...I bet he’s glad to hear this news! (sarc/)


16 posted on 11/15/2013 2:02:58 AM PST by BCW (Salva reipublicae)
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Who could possibly feel threatened by a 100-year-old firearms design?

The problem isn't lack of ordinary firearms. Most of us can buy a firarms a lot cheaper than this metal sintering printer can make one. The problem is that the civilian population has no access to weaponry that can even the balance of power with police in their recycled APCs and MRAPS. I'd feel a lot safer if there were a couple of million of these spread around the civilian population.

17 posted on 11/15/2013 4:02:09 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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Somewhere John Moses Browning is giggling like a schoolgirl. Who could possibly feel threatened by a 100-year-old firearms design? Ridiculous! Why, I haven’t seen one of those since...uh, well, since about 10 minutes ago.

Mine was manufactured in the Springfield Armory in 1914 - still a sweet/reliable/accurate weapon.

18 posted on 11/15/2013 5:10:20 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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LOL! Ooops. Dang boating accidents.


19 posted on 11/15/2013 6:15:52 AM PST by rktman (Under my plan(scheme), the price of EVERYTHING will necessarily skyrocket! Period.)
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Most of us can buy a firarms a lot cheaper than this metal sintering printer can make one.

Yes. This is true today. Won't be true soon enough.

Wonder what the price per gun is, when you make a hundred of them?

The problem is that the civilian population has no access to weaponry that can even the balance of power with police in their recycled APCs and MRAPS.

If they can make a 1911, I don't see any reason they couldn't make an M-16, or MP5.

I'd feel a lot safer if there were a couple of million of these spread around the civilian population.

So would many of us brother.

20 posted on 11/15/2013 7:05:49 AM PST by zeugma (Is it evil of me to teach my bird to say "here kitty, kitty"?)
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