Why the 3D Printed Firearm Will Be the Biggest Challenge Ever to the…..1st Amendment?

The Freehold ^ | 5/6/2013 | JONATHAN DAVID BAIRD

[RightWingNilla]

Interesting article about an interesting topic. Anyone know anything about 3D printing?

[knarf]

search FR .. stay tuned .. LOTS now and more on the way.

[varyouga]

Chuckie Shmuckie is already crying about this little gun. It gave me great joy.

I can’t wait to hear Bloomturd’s take on this...

[RightWingNilla]

Thanks. I have seen the Cody Wilson piece. Amazing stuff.

[OneWingedShark]

3D Printing... Kinda.

[RightWingNilla]

Yeah the usual statist pigs hate this. Which almost in of itself, makes me support it.

[The_Reader_David]

I would suggest every FReeper download the Defense Distributed files for the “Liberator” single shot pistol, printable AR-15 lower receiver, printable 30 round AR-15 magazine, oh, heck, just download all their files, even if you don’t have a 3D printer, even if you don’t expect to have the money to buy one anytime in the next decade, even if you yourself don’t want to have firearms in your home for whatever reason.

The files need to exist on as many computers as possible so they cannot be regulated.

Worried about the Feds knowing you downloaded it? Download them using a public wi-fi connection, encrypt the result under an obscure name, and delete the original using military-grade deletion software, then copy your encrypted file to lots of places — a back-up hard-drive, various places in the cloud, . . .

[davisfh]

This 3-D printing thing apparently started back in the ‘90s. I worked for an aerospace company that bought one of these machines early on. The purpose was to “proof” part designs by printing the part out and examining it and its functionality. The material that the printed part was composed of was certainly not substantial enough to permit its use as a genuine part. Gun barrels are typically forged steel. I cannot imagine a printed gun barrel having the strength required to withstand the explosive discharge of a bullet. Perhaps there is something that I am not understanding here. Please correct me if I am wrong.

[catnipman]

Basically the one that everybody's going gaga about right now is essentially a hi-tek zip gun:

http://fortunebrainstormtech.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/130503125507-liberator-620xa.jpg?w=1240&h=696

[InterceptPoint]

Interesting article about an interesting topic. Anyone know anything about 3D printing?
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Null and void runs the 3D printing Ping List. Send him a Freepmsil and he will set you up.

[Aliska]

You can see examples on YT by searching. The gun I saw was heavy white plastic compound and will only fire once. It had a regular gun handle, however.

XONE will print plastic, ceramic and metal but their printers are prohibitively expensive for most people.

I suspect printer sales will be highly regulated or even prohibited. Also attempts to stop open source designs for weapons.

Another problem is TSA. It's not hard at all to figure out how to get one through. Take out the firing pin.

[So Cal Rocket]

Search the internet for videos on “Metal Sintering”.

It’s the next generation 3D priting method.

[GnL]

Hey, that looks just like the spray nozzle for some ant killer I recently bought!

[muir_redwoods]

Pass me that box of 3-D printed ammo will ya?

[Bobalu]

3D printing is currently at a very crude scale.

Nano-tech will eventually allow 3D printers to operate at a molecular level. When the tech allows manipulation at the nano scale the guns created by 3D printers will be the sturdiest guns ever made.

3D printers will morph into desktop assemblers able to make drugs, guns, food, biological tissue, extremely complex electronic devices and things we can’t even imagine yet.

Liberals/progressives/socialists/communists will all be against this technology since it liberates ordinary people (the unwashed masses) from any dependence on central government.

[Rusty0604]

Dentists are using them for things they used to have to send off to be made as the patient waits in the ofice. I have in vested in Organavo, which is working on making 3D organs, they have already made a small liver and are working on kidneys.

[longtermmemmory]

Imagine what this does to all those stocks of companies that these congressment are exempt from insider trading laws.

3d printing changes all of production.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

BAN GUN PORN!/s

[USMCPOP]

Legislators are going to get all ass-hurt about this. Big deal. So restrict 3-D printers to adults. Any adult can get the tools to make a proper weapon.