Feds Pull 3D-Printed Gun Design from Web

Breitbart's Big Government ^ | May 9, 2013 | Mary Chastain

[roadcat]

I broke an engine hoist trying to get it into place.

Scary! Yeah, I keep my toes out of the way, using my engine hoist to move machinery around. My hoist has a pneumatic hose connection with a remote control trigger. Makes it safer to operate at a distance. These 3D printers mean no more mangled fingers.

[MileHi]

Under what law?

The law of superior firepower.

Certainly not by any legitimate Constitutional authority.

[JRandomFreeper]

I just want a 3-D printer for wax to make cores for lost-wax casting. Talk about cutting down the cycle time on design changes. Print a core, build the mold, cast, figure out what you did wrong, remelt the AL, rinse and repeat.

/johnny

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

“CAUTION: PORN ADS ON SITE
Double win!”

Post of the day! ROFL

[DoctorBulldog]

Hehehehe. That gif made my night!

Cheers!

[struggle]

If you guys want to scare the hell out of the government:

1. Print a Liberator
2. Go to a McDonalds or place with free wifi, get an anonymous youtube account, u/l a video of you shooting it
3. ???
4. PROFIT!

[alpo]

I recall an account of POW’s in a Japanese prison who built a lathe out of a piston and some other scrap they scrounged. Had to take it apart when they were moved. They occasionally made parts for the Japanese to trade for food and other necessities as well as parts for their own use. It had a swing of around 10 inches.

[WildHighlander57]

End # 52 should be 58.

:D

Yup, the cat is outta the bag...

MEOW!!!!!

:D

[doorgunner69]

The .jpg drawing is not of the CAD item as far as I can tell from screen shots, dunno what it is there for. Looks like a patent drawing.

[InMemoriam]

No worries. Here is the response, for example, at the predominantly liberal Reddit.

[HKMk23]

Thanks. It’ll be fun to check out the guy’s work. Been a “CAD jockey” for years; since back when doing anything in 3D was just a total pipe dream. Today’s 3D modeling software just flat rocks.

[no-s]

How will this action increase the cost of 3D printing?

Well, if demand for 3d printers suddenly increases, then the components you have to source will go up. steppers and controllers, threaded rod, etc. Of course all of those are pretty cheap to manufacture.

[no-s]

I think the best one was the fellow who had RSA in 3 lines of Perl tattooed on his arm.

I've seen one of those in person and OCR'ed it for fun...

[wastoute]

That probably is indeed what they are thinking. One side or the other is gonna get one hell of a surprise.

μολὼν λαβέ

[DoctorBulldog]

Ignore the enclosed Chinese stuff. It’s the .stl files (STereoLithography files) in the other folder you want.

Most CAD programs can read the .stl format.

Cheers!

[Old Sarge]

BUMP for later

[zeugma]

We need a few of the 60,000 who have already download it, to take turns posting it.

You know, you could take the indivitual files, uuencode them and post them right here, if they weren't too large.

Or ascii encode them with PGP, which would probably be better and more apropos anyway.

[apillar]

A. emule or the bit torrent of your choice or visit piratebay

B. Search for Liberator_First_3D_Printable_gun and/or DefDistDEFCADMEGAPACKV4.2 (all defense distributed files pack). (won't be hard to find thousands have popped up overnight)

C. Download

D. Enjoy making Obama cry...