Posted on 05/09/2013 7:14:18 PM PDT by NewJerseyJoe
The revolutionary concept of 3-D printed firearms has been building momentum for months now. Online observers, innovators, investors and the generally curious celebrated as the first completely 3-D printed handgun became a reality. Since the blueprint for “The Liberator” hit the web, the file was downloaded thousands of times in just a few days.
Today, the government shut it down.
Cody Wilson, the 3-D gunsmith, law student, and founder of the non-profit innovation outlet, Defense Distributed, broke the bad news in a tweet to his followers.
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Did they pass a law to allow the Feds this power or is Comrade Tut just stealing property?
The media circus about dangerous, evil, guns is just Libtardism for profit. Yes, I know their profits are down, but Libtards will be libtards.
MediaTards are unaware the military considers guns are for killing retail. Wholesale killing is done with explosives. Ask any Bostonian.
What Libtards can’t accept is the reality of explosives being easy to acquire or make. Even a common propane tank can be a bomb.
A friend, who taught such things to Army Rangers mentioned that government could not prevent bombs, as one can be made with a can of flour and a M-80 firecracker. He mentioned that a one pound can with flour MUST not be used with a firecracker fuse, as one could not light it and run fast enough to escape the lethal radius.
The real danger to America is Islam, which is not really a religion, but a “War Plan”.
But, with a Muslim in the White Mosque, it should come as no surprise that Islam/Muslims get a lip stick application and guns/gun owners are being attacked.
Gubment would be well advised to hope they are merely occasionally shot at(the historic American way), sometimes even hit. Were explosives the American favored weapon, the trough feeders would really have something to be worried about.
“Staples will be selling 3D Printers for around $ 1200.00”
If the government becomes frightened of 3D printers, they will restrict access or ownership. Or they will restrict the type of raw stock needed to make certain things.
I suspect guns are not the real issue, it’s putting the means of production into our hands.
Scientific American had plans for one back in the 70’s, in Amateur Scientist.
“several hundred years too late to stop people from making them the old fashioned way.”
Yup, with CNC machines in high school shops the sky’s the limit. If the kids can get quality steel and have 15 minutes unwatched, they can buzz out a revolver.
If anybody wants the CAD file, private-mail me your Email and I’ll send it.
The zipped file I’m “aware of” is about 2.02 MB
I’ll include a free photo of Anthony Weiner, plus a montage of Obama and Larry Sinclair performing an islamic ritual.
Lots of dup threads out now. Someone else mentioned on another, what makes the U.S. gov think only Americans are doing these things? Cat is out of the bag. Others around the world will make 3D printers, as well as improved designs of downloadable guns. And then they'll slip over the border into the U.S. After all, Obama ain't stopping traffic over the border. He's sending metal guns into Mexico, and plastic guns will come from Mexico.
The designs are already open source. You can build your own, especially if you already own one to print the parts with.
Maybe they shouldn’t have named it the Liberator..
Excellent point!
This is fundamentally unAmerican, and too late to stop the spread of the files, thankfully.
Not to worry — my 3D printable kill-drone with HARM missile plans should be going up any day now.
Good post, and regarding sigs, you are more wordy than I.
Comrade Carter passed an EO implementing International firearms regulations. Oddly, I don’t think it is a treaty. I wonder if the lawyer in charge will fight this.
Saw the design. It is basically a single shot handgun. One can easily replace the plastic barrel with a metal substitute to make the barrel last beyond 10 shots. Luty of Britain actually sold a book on how to make a 9mm smoothbore barrel machinegun that uses a single stack magazine with store brought parts/tubing and tools.
Too Late!
It's underground now, idiots.
Most people who are interested will build their own.
Just about any CNC platform can be converted to a 3d printer.
The designs for print heads and entire machines are many, with completed parts available on ebay for quite some time now.
They might convert a CNC to the type of 3D printer that squirts out a stream of plastic, but the ones that make high-strength parts by sintering plastic powder with a laser are a different technology.
Got to 95% of downloading from that mirror and it was pulled.
They’re going after it everywhere.
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