Posted on 07/31/2018 4:31:35 PM PDT by PROCON
FAIRFAX, Va.— Chris W. Cox, executive director, National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action, released the following statement on Tuesday:
“Many anti-gun politicians and members of the media have wrongly claimed that 3-D printing technology will allow for the production and widespread proliferation of undetectable plastic firearms. Regardless of what a person may be able to publish on the Internet, undetectable plastic guns have been illegal for 30 years. Federal law passed in 1988, crafted with the NRA’s support, makes it unlawful to manufacture, import, sell, ship, deliver, possess, transfer, or receive an undetectable firearm.”
Yes, they do!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTofP26-HiQ
They are extraordinarily expensive at the moment however.
finally the facts on Cody’s actual gun. thanks. fr full of ignorance too, sadly
Lets do it in 3d with testing!
This is the same crap they came up with 35-40 years ago when Glocks first came out. Guns must have metal barrels and chambers...all detectable. Just a new crop of assholes.
This is the same crap they came up with 35-40 years ago when Glocks first came out. Guns must have metal barrels and chambers...all detectable. Just a new crop of assholes.
This is the same crap they came up with 35-40 years ago when Glocks first came out. Guns must have metal barrels and chambers...all detectable. Just a new crop of assholes.
This is the same crap they came up with 35-40 years ago when Glocks first came out. Guns must have metal barrels and chambers...all detectable. Just a new crop of assholes.
“Some parts need to be made of steel.”
The firing pin?
You can buy a replacement barrel and slide without needing to go through FFL paperwork and background check.
Not to mention that totally non-metallic ammo isn’t a very common commodity.
Actually the furor around this has tempted me to design a 3D printed air pistol with a fillable compressed air chamber similar to how many modern metal airguns work.
It would fire a single sharp, finned plastic (or wood, or carbon fiber, or ceramic, or...?) projectile.
I'm quite confident that such a gun could be lethal against an unarmored person. It also would NOT be covered by the "Undetectable Firearms Act", and would certainly serve the purpose of the "Liberator" pistol of WW II - getting a "real" gun from a bad guy.
The real beauty of it would be that it would require nothing beyond the printer, filament, and an air compressor or pump. I wonder how available 3D printers are in places like Iran and Venezuela...
Interesting times we live in...
Whoops, I’d meant to address #73 to ‘All’...I hope you find it worthwhile.
“Same thing for many other handguns and rifles. For an AR15, you just have to make the lower. The upper, with the barrel, you can buy for cash.”
Guns have been made in people’s homes, garages and workshops since before the Revolutionary War, and that isn’t going to stop. All that the 3-D technology allows is for everyone to be able to do this more easily. This tech is also out there, and isn’t going to go away. The agreement that the Feds reached with Defense Distributed is the right way to go - power to the people, THAT is the essence of Liberty.
Get yourself a 120-year-old gun, and no one (except the seller, who probably won’t ask for ID) will know about it. I have an 1898 manufacturer Mosin-Nagant that fires the same 7.62x54R round used today in sniper rifles and crew-served machine guns by Russia and China...and it works like a charm, as you say.
As I’m sure that you’re aware, you can buy an 80% receiver for an AR-15 (AKA a “paperweight”) and then buy a gig and a router, all for less than $350 (a bit more if you want very high quality), and then you can make 100% AR lowers all day long. The router will need new bits perhaps every 20 jobs, and the jigs will wear out every 10-50 jobs (depending on quality), but the cost per lower ends up being WELL south of $100 each.
This is being done several tens of thousands of times per MONTH - and it drives many states and all gun-control freaks CRAZY, because no one has to register ANY of those items, ever.
“The line has to be drawn before bad precedents are set.”
There is a line (or, rather, several), and they’re not straight lines, but this ought to be protected free speech...because the lines of which I speak are the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. When Kavanaugh is confirmed, any attempts to engage in the prior restraint of the exercise of the Free Speech clause of the 1st Amendment will likely be tossed out.
Take a gander at my tagline. Read van Vogt’s “The Weapons Shops of Isher” (from which the quote comes) to understand this better.
I look forward to someday being able to 3-D print any of dozens of fully-functional and modern firearms...because this effort to kill this baby in its crib will fail on 1st Amendment grounds, and over the next 5-10 years the number of folks designing such guns will skyrocket, the quality of their designs will be outstanding, and the technology will get both better and cheaper. We are on the verge of “the good old days” for firearms freedom - gun control is on its last legs, between 3-D printing and the widespread availability of 80% receivers.
— Frank Fleming
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