Posted on 01/16/2013 3:07:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
As Debate Stirs Around High-Capacity Gun Clips, Homemade Gun Enthusiasts Show Clip Can be Made At Home with 3-D Printer
Washington, D.C.— Today, Congressman Steve Israel (D-Huntington) called for a renewal of a revamped Undetectable Firearms Act that includes the ban of 3-D printed, plastic high-capacity magazines. The existing ban on plastic guns expires this year and does not clearly cover magazines. This past weekend, Defense Distributed, a group of homemade gun enthusiasts used a 3-D printer to print and test an ammunition magazine for an AR semi-automatic rifle, loading and firing 86 rounds from the 30-round clip.
Rep. Israel said, “Background checks and gun regulations will do little good if criminals can print high-capacity magazines at home. 3-D printing is a new technology that shows great promise, but also requires new guidelines. Law enforcement officials should have the power to stop high-capacity magazines from proliferating with a Google search.”(continued)
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You can make your own springs by wrapping piano wire around a dowel
Sorry for the delay. I know what you mean. The last time I had a Congressman I voted for was in the early 80’s!
P.S. — St Hugh of Lincoln.
I think it was in the Karate Kid original movie, it was mentioned that the Okinawans were forbidden from having swords and spears, so they developed karate - fighting with their bare hands. Dn't know if this is true. But anyway, despotic governments never learn, that people will find the way to arm themselves, somehow, some way. Obamites may stop us from buying arms, but we'll make our own.
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Direct Metal Laser Sintering - I don’t know if the result is suitable for use in a magazine, what little I know about sintered metal is that it might be too brittle, but these things are progressing rapidly.
3-D printer ping
(This one’s a little late)....
“Law enforcement officials should have the power to stop high-capacity magazines from proliferating with a Google search.”
Guess what? It doesn’t matter what you think they should have the power to do. The technology is here and you can’t stop it. Neener neener neener!
“What does this mean? Was it a 30 or 86 round mag they printed?”
It was a 30 round mag, but I think they just fired 86 rounds using the printed mag in that videotaped test.
Springs are nothing but mandrel bent piano wire.
Yep.
Just bend it *once*. Pud easy.
Sounds too me like a candidate for home making frangible bullets.
Very soon I expect people will come up with a new 3D printed caseless ammo, whole thing is printed, fill with powder and add primer. A longer lighter bullet because the case is part of the bullet, and it disintegrates upon impact, nothing but sintered metal fragments, much like the new varmint bullets.
Please take me off your ping list. thnx
Done.
Kara te - empty hands
Kara oke - empty orchestra
Yeah... worked so well after the Volstead Act, didn’t it?
Yep. There wasn’t a dry I in the house. Or senate.
consider that this idiot probably has money invested in manufacturers. Remember this “representatives” have investiment immunity.
The shifting of production damages his stock portfolio.
the shifting of production means less lobbiest money.
the shifting of production affects his personal power block.
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