Def Cad just wend DOWN - 3d Printable gun site shut down..

[GraceG]

Just heard on a radio show from the guy that recently made the 3D printed gun that he has just been shutdown.

Cody just reported on it while on a national talk show.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Senator Schumer already has a bill written to outlaw a gun made by that process.

I watched his little press conference and was laughing my arse off.

He actually said that people could make guns this way and walk through scanners and metal detectors without them being detected.

Schumer is such an idiot. He is a knee-jerk butthole who can't be bothered to do some research into the technology he wants to ban. Let alone, do some research into how a firearm works.

1. How can a 3D printer make a functional pistol or rifle barrel that could withstand the pressures when a round is chambered? It can't

2. How does a 3D printer make usable cartridges out of polymer? It can't.

3. How does a person walk through a metal detector with 30 rounds of normal bras and lead 5.56 ammo on them? They can't

[nascarnation]

Chuckie is a Harvard lawyer, like Baraq.

As a smart guy said on CNBC:

China has central planning by mathematicians, scientists, and engineers, and the US has central planning by lawyers.

Neither one is good, but by definition we lose.

[86Patriot]

Amazingly the download link for the liberator is still active in the google cached version of the website. Just do a google search for defcad org liberator and select the cached page and download the file.

[JRandomFreeper]

Anything to say now about this being 'bogus'?

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

How can a 3D printer make a functional pistol or rifle barrel that could withstand the pressures when a round is chambered? It can't

Actually BSR, it can. And did.

/johnny

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

it can. And did.

I am dubious. If a 5.56 round is fired from a full on steel barrel made for .223 rounds will fail. Eventually or straight away.

How can a barrel made from polymers on a 3D printer withstand those kind of pressures? My head don't bend enough to get wrapped around that kinda thing.

[JRandomFreeper]

The video shows the pistol firing a standard .380 from the plastic barrel.

This, by the way, was an engineering proof-of-concept, not a finished product. V1.0, in other words, not even beta test.

And the gooberment is trying to shut it down. And failing.

Also, there have been plastic cartridge cases made and used before. Not with 3-D printers, way back before then.

/johnny

[ctdonath2]

Yeah, like export was the concern.

[Jet Jaguar]

Good info.

“Amazingly the download link for the liberator is still active in the google cached version of the website. Just do a google search for defcad org liberator and select the cached page and download the file.”

[null and void]

Back in the day of crappy steel, some cannon were made of relatively thin steel barrels reinforced by winding miles of steel wire around them.

Any flaws in the steel were stretched out along the wire and therefore didn’t provide enough of a stress concentration to make the wire fail as a solid block would have.

Fiberglass or graphite fiber could serve the same function on an all plastic barrel.

[JRandomFreeper]

It's all over the world. I've been sampling the torrents, and that cat isn't just out of the bag, it has achieved light speed and reproducing like bad bacteria.

Once again, government is a day late and a dollar or billion short.

Sorry, gooberment, the world just changed. Can you keep up?

/johnny

[Jet Jaguar]

I cannot confirm I downloaded it.

[JRandomFreeper]

Stave cannons. Yep. Cheaper than bronze cannons, and your churches didn't go silent every time you had a war.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

I can. I'm a grown man who intends to live free. What are they going to do to me? Take away my birthday?

I'm not big on sneaking around and skulking in the shadows.

/johnny

[Jet Jaguar]

I have a file. It’s one I am not familiar with. I don’t have a printer, and it’s not compatible with my OS.

[null and void]

I was thinking of the next step, a wire gun, also called a wire wound gun.

[JRandomFreeper]

Lots of better ways to coax a projectile downrange at a high rate of speed.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

It's a stereolithographic representation of a 3-D object. It can be binary or ASCII. There are standards for both. You have to have an application on your OS that can read them. And whatever OS you have, unless you are running a Commodore64, has those applications.

I don't have a printer yet, either.

But I can put a thumb in the eye of heavy-handed thugs running a protection/shakedown racket they call 'government'.

/johnny

[Jet Jaguar]

I am looking into a printer. I have a mac and a windows boot disk when needed.

I might just buy one of these things.

Just so I can.

[expat_panama]

Saw that, but the Liberator files are all .stl. Prolly proprietary to the printer used.

FOUND IT!!!!!

sorry for raising my voice, I get excited sometimes.  I'm checking out: MeshLab, a free and open source cross-platform application for visualizing, processing and converting three-dimensional meshes to or from the STL file format.