3D Printing Community Updates Liberator with Rifle, Pepperbox and Glock-Powered ‘Shuty-9'

guns.com ^ | 1 July, 2013 | Max Slowik

[marktwain]

The Liberator pistol was and is an interesting idea. A simple single-shot firearm in the spirit of the FP-45 Liberator — the American-made holdout pistol designed to be dispersed across Axis-occupied Europe during World War II — the Defense Distributed Liberator is considered to be the first entirely 3D-printed handgun.

It’s both a thought experiment and a type of protest: governments can’t control the manufacture of arms, there’s no way to monopolize them.

By turning to 3D printing, Defense Distributed, led by Cody Wilson, the Liberator shows that the ability for the general public to manufacture arms and to share their blueprints is unstoppable.

Of course, the project has been criticized as giving prohibited persons the ability to manufacture arms as well as providing people of countries that forbid gun ownership, in part or in whole, a way to make guns.

And it’s largely impractical. Not only are 3D printers capable of printing a Liberator expensive, especially when compared to the relatively low cost of tools and equipment required to manufacture guns out of metals, the materials 3D printers use make a pretty poor-quality firearm when used to make every part of the gun.

But it’s the start of the decentralization, the democratization of gun-making. These admittedly under-performing guns are the beginning of home-grown firearms driven by shared source code and peer-to-peer hosting.

And for the U.S. government has put an end to the official Liberator plans, classifying them as military-grade blueprints and ordering Defense Distributed to take them down from their website.

[marktwain]

More advances in 3D printing of firearms.

[null and void]

3-D Printer Ping!

Political power grows out of the nozzle of a 3-D Printer.

[MrB]

Print me a polymer lower for an AR-15...

[InsidiousMongo]

It has already been done. I ordered some from a company already. Check Polymer 80 and New Frontier Armory as both have VERY TOUGH poly lowers.

[MrB]

Yes, I’m looking at polymer 80.
I hope they can keep up with their pre-orders.

But - I’m not saying an “80” - the 3D printer ought to be able to print a “100”...

[Charles Martel]

There have been 3D printed AR lower receivers that work. The most recent revisions on the Torrent websites have been modeled after the injection-molded commercial polymer lowers (thicker side walls and other crucial areas).

The initial mistake was trying to make plastic work using the original mil-spec dimensions (which are for cast/forged aluminum).

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

“And it’s largely impractical. Not only are 3D printers capable of printing a Liberator expensive, especially when compared to the relatively low cost of tools and equipment required to manufacture guns out of metals, the materials 3D printers use make a pretty poor-quality firearm when used to make every part of the gun.”

The above sentiment once applied to “desktop printing”, as a threat to the MSM. Desktop printing eventually morphed into the “New Media”, and the MSM is now the dinosaur media.

“But, it’s largely impractical. Not only are laser printers capable of printing a newsletter expensive, especially when compared to the relatively low cost of jobbing out the printing of inserts for our newspapers , the materials used by a “desktop publisher” make a pretty poor quality newsletter, when used to make every part of the publication.”

3D printing will evolve — it’s probably bigger than we can imagine.

[InsidiousMongo]

So far Polymer 80 has been working diligently on production. I am in direct communication with the owner. They have some lovely things coming along.

[MrB]

So, is the jig going to be sufficient for someone handy, but without experience or direction to finish making the lower?

[Standing Wolf]

Many wet panties at the Brady Campaign to Disarm the Commoners.

[InsidiousMongo]

A video will be provided detailing how to mill the trigger pocket. Since these are not made out of billet aluminum, I’m sure a dremel with a careful hand will clean up the pocket just fine after drilling the holes. I would recommend a drill press though to ensure the holes drilled for the fire control group are straight.

[MrB]

Thanks.

[InsidiousMongo]

I recommend going on the Calguns forum under the Commercial Sales area in their marketplace forum for more details about the progress.

[Sender]

Shuty-9 with real Glock barrel instead of plastic.

[Oatka]

It’s both a thought experiment and a type of protest: governments can’t control the manufacture of arms, there’s no way to monopolize them.

Check out THIS YouTube. It's cluttered up with buttons (starts at :25), but just shows what can be done. A zip gun on steroids.

[from occupied ga]

Many wet panties at the Brady Campaign to Disarm the Commoners.

Not entirely. The Brady org provides a number of @$$holes with a very good living off the donated funds from bedwetters around the country and around the world. When the bedweeters see something like this (after first squeezing fresh urine into their sticky stinking mattresses they open up their wallets and give. The Brady crew although truly wanting to see eveyone except the govenments thugs disarmed also enjoys a pretty good "chunk o change" from the process