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First 3-D-printed gun fired, but its digital blueprints make bigger bang
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Posted on 05/06/2013 4:57:42 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Kevmo
To comply with the Federal 'undetectable gun act', the inventor installed a chunk of metal in it, just so it sets off metal detectors.
/johnny
To: JRandomFreeper
Got it. But that doesn’t answer the question of what a metal shank is... In prison, it means a self-made knife, for killing other prisoners. What definition is this article proceeding from? Why didn’t they use a different, less evocative term, other than to paint this whole enterprise as extremist?
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posted on
05/06/2013 6:02:47 PM PDT
by
Kevmo
("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
To: Kevmo
Freedom IS extremist to certain groups. ;)
/johnny
To: JRandomFreeper
extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice
~Barry Goldwater
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posted on
05/06/2013 6:10:50 PM PDT
by
Kevmo
("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
To: Kevmo
A shank is:
1. The narrow part of the sole of a shoe under the instep.
2. A piece of material, such as metal, that is used to reinforce or shape this part of a shoe.
Not having any other ready sources of metal, prisoners would remove this part of the shoe and sharpen an edge or point on it.
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posted on
05/06/2013 6:15:48 PM PDT
by
null and void
(CA State Moto: "We have no idea right now where they were going or where they were coming from")
To: Libloather
time has come today...
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posted on
05/06/2013 6:21:53 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: null and void
So the article is proceeding from the definition of shank as “a piece of shoe”? Doubtful. More likely is the loaded definition so they can continue to feed biased perceptions on this issue.
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posted on
05/06/2013 6:27:16 PM PDT
by
Kevmo
("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
To: Kevmo
The dictionary lists 23 other definitions. Pick one that pleases you.
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posted on
05/06/2013 6:31:31 PM PDT
by
null and void
(CA State Moto: "We have no idea right now where they were going or where they were coming from")
To: Kevmo
So the article is proceeding from the definition of shank as a piece of shoe? Doubtful. More likely is the loaded definition so they can continue to feed biased perceptions on this issue.Relax. "Shank" is the everyday word for the narrow part of a tool between the handle and the head.
I would imagine that the builder of the gun might have named the part himself. Someone capable of building a gun from scratch likely knows a little something about tools.
To: Jyotishi
Chuck-for-Brains went apoplectic...
...changed colors sixteen times in one press event....
Pass the popcorn!
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posted on
05/06/2013 6:33:48 PM PDT
by
Wings-n-Wind
(The main things are the plain things!)
To: Libloather
If its a one shot disposable weapon then skip the process of actually using a bullet, instead the housing itself is the cartridge, propellant, primer and projectile.
Think gun shaped bullet, one shot, throw away. Yes there is a projectile thats fired from the whole unit.
Too much effort to make a doilie looking device, hell make it look like a potato.
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posted on
05/06/2013 6:47:30 PM PDT
by
Spartan302
(Spartans never quit, they come back later with more warriors.)
To: theBuckwheat
Thanks. Tens of thousands must have been printed by now.
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posted on
05/06/2013 7:54:16 PM PDT
by
Jyotishi
(Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
To: Libloather
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posted on
05/06/2013 10:30:52 PM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: Kevmo
Shank is the term used when a metal strip is put into the soles of boots to reinforce it also. Think the use here is closer to that.
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posted on
05/07/2013 12:04:32 AM PDT
by
Fire_on_High
(RIP City of Heroes and Paragon Studios, victim of the Obamaconomy.)
To: Kevmo
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posted on
05/07/2013 2:50:51 AM PDT
by
Libloather
(The epitome of civility.)
To: catnipman; Libloather
If the time ever came that I was so desperate that I had to fabricate a weapon, a fine and usable 12-gauge single-shot can be made from a metal pipe and a piece of wood. Not elegant, but durable.
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posted on
05/07/2013 8:39:03 AM PDT
by
Sender
(It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
To: Sender
Sure, but if you should have to make, oh, a thousand or so...can’t imagine why anyone ever would...I mean, who would ever want a thousand temporary guns? Well, except for a thousand people without them, that is...
To: jespasinthru
Folks in nations and states who have extreme restrictions placed on them to obtain a self defense weapon would probably be very thankful for the opportunity to have this in lieu of nothing.
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posted on
05/07/2013 2:46:18 PM PDT
by
AFPhys
((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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