Any thing has a good and evil component.
The author of this article has obviously never had first hand experience using a 3D printer and certainly has no idea how much one costs.
This is a piece of equipment that is costly for a small business; it would be prohibitive for a teenager in his bedroom.
When a part is printed, it is porous. It needs to have metal wicked into it. As for making a gun, that’s a pipedream for an idiot. First off, you could never make the barrel or chamber this way it would blow up. You could make other parts (trigger components, and some parts, but nothing that would experience the stresses needed to launch a bullet.
Not surprisingly, this NY Times article claims that 40% of guns are now sold through the “gun show loophole.”
Funny the MSM doesn’t have a list of all these weapons as they are used day after day in crimes!
Maybe it slipped their collective mind.
Yeah, sure.
“A surprisingly factual article from the NYT. All the information about homemade guns .. .. “
Is a symptom of the delusional mindset of the NYT.
While some part of a weapon can be made of plastic, the barrel, chamber, etc, are metal, and, for any sort of remotely durable weapon have to be made of metal.
These printers deal in plastics and like materials.
Not metals. At least not yet.
For the price of the printer, materials, and parts you would need to order to make a functional weapon, you could buy several weapons that are made of better material and have a warranty.
Any newsie that thinks a 3D “printed” gun would actually function has been watching too many sci-fi movies.
And at the cost of one of those things, you could buy several guns on the down low even at inflated prices.
Making a mountain out of a mole hill again.
Bunch of numb nuts with hothing better to write about.
Where’s the “gun pron?”
TTIUWP
The real headline here is being able to rapid prototype using a printer!!!!!!!
Go Go gadget MAKERBOT!