Posted on 03/01/2013 9:23:36 PM PST by lowbridge
In two months' time DEFCAD has garnered more than three thousand visits an hour and nearly a quarter-million downloads. What makes up the bulk of that traffic?
Guns, guns, guns. Parts for guns. Accessories like suppressors. Ammo casings for NATO and Warsaw Pact small arms and rifles. Even combat munitions like hand grenades.
And they all work too.
Provided you've a 3D printer, the right materials and a few other items that can be bought at most any hardware store, you or anybody else can spend a nice relaxing evening or weekend putting together a small arsenal in your home office.
Sorta brings whole new meaning to desktop publishing a magazine, huh?
I just downloaded a .22 single-shot pistol from DEFCAD, designed by a user named "caboose". The entire ZIPped-up file was over half a megabyte. I don't possess a 3D printing setup but in the future, that will probably be a standard appliance in many homes. I may take a stab at it then, if not sooner.
There's an intriguing article at Venture Beat about DEFCAD, including an interview with site founder Cody Wilson. Among other things he notes that DEFCAD is getting lots of visits from foreign countries. Might we speculate that at least some of that is from places with stringent gun control?
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why limit to old school?
electric coilguns and railguns are also a reality with working models on youtube.
The slip-and-fall-lawyers would take the suits back to the plastic mfgrs, cad-cam designers and everyone up and down the line. The release form may/may not work in court. This is a whole ‘nother area of legal catfight we’re getting into in the digital age.
Popcorn?
Where can you buy 3 D printers? I have never seen one.
I’ve never seen one either in a store.
But they’re available online:
There are “barrel relines” out there where a barrel is bored out and a new liner is placed in the barrel. I could see using a piece of barrel liner in the printer to make a longer lasting gun.
They're just fancy pipe-bombs.
You’re light-years ahead of me as to how it all works.
Bullets and maybe shells, but I can’t imagine making anything that requires a combination of materials, especially propellants.
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