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3D Printing Now Brings You Semiautomatic Pistols (The Better To Scare Control Freaks)
Reason ^ | Sep. 26, 2013 2:41 pm | J.D. Tuccille

Posted on 09/26/2013 1:14:02 PM PDT by Joe Brower

3D Printing Now Brings You Semiautomatic Pistols (The Better To Scare Control Freaks)

J.D. Tuccille|Sep. 26, 2013 2:41 pm

It's not yet ready for prime-time (it has yet to be tested), but 3D printing tinkerers have developed a design for a semiautomatic pistol. In fact, the developer says a full-automatic version would be easier to make with available materials. What a long way we've come, in just a few short months, toward the ultimate goal of rendering gun control laws a complete joke. Well...they were already a joke (though a dangerous one). It's more accurate to say we've come a long way toward rendering such laws moot, and easily bypassed by even those with limited technical skills.

Over at DEFCAD, Proteus, a moderator and developer of the design (which another poster dubs "the brick" for obvious reasons) writes:

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 3d; 3dprinting; banglist; guncontrol; rkba; secondamendment; youwillnotdisarmus
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Yes, that's the actual title.
1 posted on 09/26/2013 1:14:02 PM PDT by Joe Brower
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To: harpseal; TexasCowboy; nunya bidness; blackie; AAABEST; Travis McGee; Squantos; wku man; SLB; ...
The future takes many forms, some unexpected; I think this technology is one such. Resistance, as we see demonstrated here, takes many forms as well.

Right now these are curiousities; in time, they will be quite viable.

We live in interesting times.

Click the Gadsden flag for pro-gun resources!

2 posted on 09/26/2013 1:16:33 PM PDT by Joe Brower (The "American People" are no longer capable of self-governance.)
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To: Joe Brower

This keeps gettin’ better.


3 posted on 09/26/2013 1:30:53 PM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: Joe Brower
This is a nice developing story, but in the meantime I think I'll stick with my baby Glock-n-30...


4 posted on 09/26/2013 1:34:29 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
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To: MileHi
"OK. We have a 3D printer. What should we make first?"


5 posted on 09/26/2013 1:35:57 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: UCANSEE2
Another 3-D printer.

/johnny

6 posted on 09/26/2013 1:36:30 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: RoosterRedux
Rooster Redux: This is a nice developing story, but in the meantime I think I'll stick with my baby Glock-n-30...

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*snicker*

I haven't fired a weapon in years.

Do you have a recommendation for a gun that will get the job done but doesn't have a lot of kickback? This hummingbird is kind of petite and not terribly strong but I'm looking for something that will get the job done but is light enough that it won't throw me back on my *ss.

hummingbird

7 posted on 09/26/2013 1:46:17 PM PDT by hummingbird (Don't be afraid of the big words.)
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To: UCANSEE2
""OK. We have a 3D printer. What should we make first?""

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Make a 3D print of your printer...heh.....

8 posted on 09/26/2013 1:48:04 PM PDT by hummingbird (Don't be afraid of the big words.)
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To: Joe Brower

Pistols are fine, but there’s lots of other interesting stuff.

Let’s have a headreast-bomb spiked in the end and shaped to slide easily into a car headrest, with a radio detonator.

Cheap, tiny and elegant.


9 posted on 09/26/2013 1:49:28 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama: the bearded lady of the Muslim Brotherhood))
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To: hummingbird

Anything will get the job done. How well and efficiently you want the job done depends on you.


10 posted on 09/26/2013 1:50:56 PM PDT by Ajnin (Wolves don't lose sleep over the opinion of sheep.)
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To: RoosterRedux

“I’ll stick with my baby Glock-n-30.”

Whassasmattayew?
That clip plainly has far greater capacity than you need. Does Sen. Schumer know about you? !!!???


11 posted on 09/26/2013 1:58:37 PM PDT by Elsiejay
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To: hummingbird

Do want something for concealed carry or for defending the homestead?


12 posted on 09/26/2013 2:01:29 PM PDT by EdReform (Oath Keepers - Guardians of the Republic - Honor your oath - Join us: www.oathkeepers.org)
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To: Joe Brower
Printable, disposable semi-auto pistols that can reliably shoot 10 times are coming within a year. It will cost a few bucks to make once one has the printer.

Come and take it...

13 posted on 09/26/2013 2:05:58 PM PDT by varyouga
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To: hummingbird
Hi HB!

You should post a vanity on the subject. You'll get flooded with great recommendations.

Before I lost all weapons in that tragic boating accident up on the river, I had (among other things) a Glock 26 (great for concealed carry and a pretty good punch), a .357 Ruger wheel gun (not good for carry), and a very cute little Keltec P-32.

The Keltec P-32's or Ruger .380's are very popular with women because they fit nicely into a purse and weigh virtually nothing. See stock photo below.

If you really want to spend some money, look into the Seecamp .32 or .380 (heirloom craftmanship in the Seecamp). Whatever you consider, go to a range and rent if possible and see what feels right...and then practice until you get very comfortable with your choice.


14 posted on 09/26/2013 2:10:27 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
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To: hummingbird; JRandomFreeper
It's obvious neither of you are teenage boys.


15 posted on 09/26/2013 2:11:32 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: RoosterRedux

Thats a nice pistol you have on your magazine there.


16 posted on 09/26/2013 2:17:29 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: UCANSEE2
Maintenance costs are too high. Hourly rental is more cost effective.

/johnny

17 posted on 09/26/2013 2:20:14 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Joe Brower

I want a 3D printed hand grenade. Well, a crate of them.


18 posted on 09/26/2013 2:22:22 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Joe Brower
Sweet! I can now print up Deckard's gun!

19 posted on 09/26/2013 2:46:41 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (IRS = Internal Revenge Service)
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To: Joe Brower

I wonder if we’ll be using home-printed guns or clubs and rocks in WW4?


20 posted on 09/26/2013 2:59:55 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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