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Hat tip to Gondring

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3-D Printer Ping!

[GraceG]

Hmm, maybe I will make one out of LEGO bricks, LOL

[glock rocks]

Now if he could just print ammo...

[ryan71]

Well that won’t hold back the federales.

[mylife]

"Liberator" is an apt title, since the original WWII .45 acp Liberator was designed as a limited use throw away gun that would shake itself apart.

[ClearCase_guy]

Anyone have any idea how -- and how fast -- something like this could be melted into an innocuous puddle?

Hmmmmm, looks like they're going to search the place. Let me just push this button ... OK. Nothing to find on the premises now.

[bankwalker]

This is causing quite a stir - making the gun control freaks heads explode.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F1nPSNnaBo

only 2 minutes - pass it on after viewing. it is going viral ...

[SWAMPSNIPER]

When I was young and foolish I discovered that you can fire a .22LR round in a barrel bored through a chunk of seasoned Oak, without losing any body parts in the process. This design would work in hardwood.

I've battered my parts over the decades, but still got all of them!

[fuzzylogic]

How long before somebody gets through airport security with one? ...and uses it?

I’m sure the solution will be to just ban all of them ;)

[kingu]

And now we have the justification required for TSA in bus stations, train stations, subway stations, along with billions in new high tech xray scanners to detect these plastic guns. Oh, and of course, almost every public access to political events curtailed, as there would be no way to assure security.

That’ll be the government’s take on it, rather than simply: The people have debated the 2nd Amendment, and the 2nd won.

[bigheadfred]

Now they can do it all I can say is intelligence will (once again) enhance stupidity.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Congressman Steve Israel issued a press release Friday responding to this story: “Security checkpoints, background checks, and gun regulations will do little good if criminals can print plastic firearms at home and bring those firearms through metal detectors with no one the wiser,” his statement reads. “When I started talking about the issue of plastic firearms months ago, I was told the idea of a plastic gun is science-fiction. Now that this technology is proven, we need to act now to extend the ban [on] plastic firearms.”

The gun may be "undetectable," but the bullets won't be, numbnuts.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Is that a broken trigger?

[Usually_Disappointed]

Wouldn’t the cartridges set off a metal detector? Without cartridges, how serious of a threat is this thing...

[Boogieman]

Congressman Steve Israel issued a press release Friday responding to this story: “Security checkpoints, background checks, and gun regulations will do little good if criminals can print plastic firearms at home and bring those firearms through metal detectors with no one the wiser,” his statement reads.

Great, the Congressmen gets it, and surely will propose we do away with these regulations that have been made obsolete by advances in technology! Right?

“When I started talking about the issue of plastic firearms months ago, I was told the idea of a plastic gun is science-fiction. Now that this technology is proven, we need to act now to extend the ban [on] plastic firearms.”

[reed13k]

bfl

[MikeJ]

That’s not a gun, that’s a hand grenade. There is no way that plastic is going to hold the pressures of a real centerfire pistol round.

The best they might manage is a one-shot device that destroys itself without harming the user.

[Carry_Okie]

I would think it possible to make plastic casings and bullets too, at least with a fair bit of carbon fiber. Graphite lined barrel? Interesting.

Do TSA scanners pick up graphite?

[Jim Robinson]

They’ll be push to outlaw cad soon.