Posted on 05/06/2013 4:57:42 PM PDT by Libloather
With a shot heard round the Internet, the first known 3-D printed gun is a reality. But the bigger ruckus comes from the gun's digital blueprints, now available for free download by any shooters who want to build their own.
Cody Wilson, the polemic face of the not-for-profit 3-D gunsmith Defense Distributed, fired the organization's latest prototype at the opening of a 28-second video posted on YouTube Friday. "The Liberator," as the weapon is provocatively titled, is a 16-piece firearm made almost entirely of ABS plastic, with a metal firing pin and an embedded metal shank meant to provide enough metal mass to comply with the 1988 U.S. Undetectable Firearms Act.
Blue and white, and bearing more than a passing resemblance to a Star Trek phaser, the .380-caliber pistol fires with a single "pop" in Wilson's hands. Apparently, the design works, though this version was rendered unusable after firing six rounds.
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> ...gun’s digital blueprints, now available for free download...
Where, where?
is it an auto, single-shot, or must the slide be racked for each shot?
THIS is why lezbo is going after the ammo now, instead of the guns.
Anything that rattles Chuckie Schumer’s cage is worth doing again!
I don't know if it's "industrial-level" or not, but my son's tech school has at least one, for mechanical design classes.
I would think that Kinko's and such places would have them, so that you can go in with a thumb drive containing the blueprints of whatever you dream up, and come out with a whatever.
The ammo cottage industry will grow by leaps and bounds.
/johnny
Socialists have long sought control over the means of production in order to make them available to each according to his need. Now that anyone can have the “means of production” to make anything they please, the socialists
will now attempt to forbid them from producing things that socialists don’t approve of. This shows that seizing the means of production was never the end goal of socialism, but seizing control of society itself.
Defense Distributed page for this printable firearm:
http://defcad.org/liberator/
I saw a photo of that 3-D printed gun, and it looks like a cheap plastic toy. And from what I have researched, the whole thing is held together with some snap-ins, some glue and one metal screw. No thank you. I would rather trust my life to a regular shootin’ iron made of steel and other reliable metals.
Folks are thinking about it, rest assured. Including a certain cook. The cool thing about open-source projects is that no-one cares who you are, if your idea works. Degrees not required. ;)
/johnny
Point is not that the gun is good, or even safe.
Doubtless someone will make a better design, someday, but even so its not necessary for this to be significant.
The political point it the important one - that its possible to make a gun this way.
If 3D printers become common, the whole idea of gun control will be moot. They cannot at that point be effectively banned, or even controlled.
I’m not a gun guy. But I’m still very pro 2nd Amendment. I’m convinced that the population needs to be armed both for it’s own protection day to day and ultimately as a defense against a tyrannical Government. I think Obama and friends certainly agree with the second of those reasons since it is Obama himself who is in charge of a wannabe tyrannical Government.
And I’ve watched the evolution of 3D printing and, in particular, the Print Your Own Gun projects.
I’m curious. How hard is it to make your own ammo? And, assuming it’s not that hard, what will the Government start buying up next?
/johnny
Wait until someone comes out with a 3D Gatling gun! Watch lib and ATF heads spin like that’s cent in “the exorcist”. Then you’ll see the nazis come out in force...with predictable results.
Ammo is much harder.
Though cases can certainly be made of plastic. I had some .38 reloadable plastic cases for my revolver in the 1970’s, that would fire plastic target bullets using either just primers or small charges; I did try it once with a lead bullet and it did work.
The problem, is chemistry.
A state that controlled ammo would doubtless control primers and propellants.
These would have to be made, and the problem there is chemistry, not fabrication. There’s no “printer” of molecules.
Cannons are also legal. I've got an uncle that used to build them. He was part of a club that built them and shot them a couple of times a year.
/johnny
with a metal firing pin and an embedded metal shank
***Shank? What exactly is a shank?
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