3D-Printed Weapons & the Consequences (Nully's 1,000th Thread!)

Design News ^ | 12/11/12 | Cabe Atwell

[null and void]

We are in a race for survival, personal technology, vs totalitarian technology.

[JRandomFreeper]

No federal laws address manufacturing weapons

Demonstrably false. Regardless of the method of manufacture.

Breathless hype. Laws cover this.

/johnny

[null and void]

3-D printer ping.

(and every other ping list I have to celebrate "You've posted a total of 1,000 threads and 110,110 replies." as of this post!)

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3-D printer ping.

(and every other ping list I have to celebrate "You've posted a total of 1,000 threads and 110,110 replies." as of this post!)

[HiTech RedNeck]

These are more curiosities than something that someone who needs a serious gun would use.

If the materials science for these object-building machines gets beyond plastics, it might be another story. Ceramics that could be finished by baking in a home oven? Metals with some kind of hardening-amalgam properties? Or a new kind of gun that uses an ammo optimized for plastic guns?

[null and void]

One of those has to be wrong...

[HiTech RedNeck]

Of course, however clandestine technologies have become easier now.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

(Nully’s 1,000th Thread!)

Noob.

;-)

[null and void]

3-D printing now has a vast pallet of materials, wax, plastics, sugar, plaster, paper, ceramics, and dozens of metals.

[JRandomFreeper]

It's Friday night, man, go with it. We'll sort out the bail and technicalities Monday morning. ;)

/johnny

[null and void]

(Nully’s 1,000th Thread!)

Noob.

;-)

I don't think I'm anywhere near Howlin's record...

[JRandomFreeper]

Clandestine technologies have been easy since Moses was a PFC.

/johnny

[palmer]

I might not have 1000 threads but I pick good topics /focus/f-news/2967983/posts

[HiTech RedNeck]

A ceramic would probably have the most promise for durability. But it needs a kiln, and would have trouble keeping dimensional stability.

[JRandomFreeper]

and would have trouble keeping dimensional stability.

So make a test item(s) and figure out the factor. Scale accordingly. Cooks do that all the thyme.

/johnny

[HiTech RedNeck]

Ceramic fires by becoming glass, a supercooled liquid. It won’t just shrink or expand, it will deform.

[Gunslingr3]

These are more curiosities than something that someone who needs a serious gun would use.

When things get serious these could be seriously useful.

If the materials science for these object-building machines gets beyond plastics, it might be another story.

The plastics will get even better. The intake on my car is plastic.

The failure they suffered on the 5.7mm design was snapped threads on the buffer tube. May just need a redesign to take a threaded sleeve made of metal.

The press will go ape when they realize that the Feds only track the lower (what is being made here) and that anyone can mail order the upper without a background check, etc.

I haven't read extensively about these, but I wonder who put together the trigger mechanism for their prototype. There is more to it that hitting the print button and snapping the two pins for the upper in...

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

You have a ways to go to catch your’s truly...

All the best to you. I’m just jerking your chain.

Merry CHRISTmas!

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[HiTech RedNeck]

It would imply some kind of spring. But it might be designed to use a spring that is commonly available at hardware stores.

[JRandomFreeper]

If the third year physics guys can't figure it out, give it to the 2nd year culinary students. They GOTTA make stuff work. ;)

/johnny