I’d like to see a gun shop rent out a 3-D printer.
I wonder if one can go to Kinko’s yet and print a gun.
The 3D printing material is really expensive. I don’t believe you can re-cycle the wasted powder (I may be wrong), and you only get a fraction of the material actually used to create the weapon.
But, the stuff runs around $10-50/lb To fill a tray of material to make a single lower you are probably talking around 5 lbs or so. And this stuff is not nearly as strong as the weakest metal.
http://www.3ders.org/pricecompare/
I don’t think that will nessary. Right now they would be better off renting uses of their equipment with themselves as “consultants”.
That being said just sinficantly rise the cost of guns and your going to wipe out gun ownership anyway.
So were going to have to wait for the cost of theses printers to come down, or form a underground gun market in the states in question.
Will not happen. Imagine the liability lawsuits when poorly made guns blow up in the operator's face. Gun shops don't need the lawsuits. And printer companies will cringe if their printers are purposed solely for gun making. However, one can use a 3-D printer to make a home-built 3-D printer, getting around limitations on renting it! (Easier just to get a real gun.)