Wasn’t there some where in Texas you could go and make your own personal lower receiver?
Want to get even simpler.
We have a right to them for self-defense against the criminals who use them.
I’d like to see a gun shop rent out a 3-D printer.
I wonder if one can go to Kinko’s yet and print a gun.
Scan the lower for the AR-15.
Print it, using a 3D material with a low melting point.
Make a cast of this lower
Now, make some really nearly perfect castings of the AR-15 lowers using some nice quality steel from bumpers, leaf springs and scrap metal from a local junk yard.
Or, just go buy a nice lower for ~$150-250 and build that AR-15 up over time. The beautiful thing about this weapon is that it’s highly reliable, and it’s customizable to the point that you can make it shoot almost any round on the market.
The only other weapon that comes close (or maybe beats it) is the good old Ruger 10/22. I still kick myself for passing on that rifle when it came out in the early 80’s. Never saw it as a worthwhile gun; thought it was a waste of $79 back then. Boy, I blew that one.
Haha, liberals are about to find out that their dreams of “Gun Control” will soon enough be quite obviously a practical impossibly unless they want to reduce us all to stone age technology. By prohibiting information and and advances.
There are a few errors in the piece, and many articles about 3D printers have perpetuated some exaggerations and myths. I did custom machining for a living for a few years a long time ago, just before such work was, for the most part, reestablished in other countries with foreign slaves. Articles about CNC work and robotics also tend to keep some exaggerations going for the purpose of getting more customers to sign their lives away and become buried in debts.
Before buying a 3D printer, learn more about its limitations by studying traditional machining methods for a part or product that you’ve considered making. And study the likelihoods and doubts concerning market demands very thoroughly.
Didn’t most people back in 1791 make their own guns?
IMHO...
3D printing is not necessary for men who seek a couch alternative.
Men can just learn how to use a lathe and a few tools, buy them used and set up shop somewhere making homemade “hydraulic cylinders”.
A little brains and elbow grease.
Just got a 3D printer in at work.. so far it’s been pretty awesome but the printer was $50k along with the S/W package so not your local home printer.
This technology only enables one to acquire something more effective.
Here’s a guy who made a gun from a shovel: http://www.northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/build-yourself/179192-diy-shovel-ak-photo-tsunami-warning.html
No printer needed :)
Right now? An opportunity to improve upon the existing technologies in both the RP and ordnance fields.