Posted on 10/06/2014 12:37:17 PM PDT by Nachum
Last May, I covered the work of Defense Distributed with regard to its building of tools for individuals to 3D-print their own firearms in the post. Meet “The Liberator”: The World’s First Fully 3D-Printed Firearm, In it, I noted:
3D-printing, like decentralized crypto currencies, have the potential to change the world in which we live in extraordinary ways. Ways that are almost inconceivable at this point given we are so early in the game. More than anything else, these technologies can empower the individual like never before, and I think that is generally a very good thing.
While all sixteen pieces of the Liberator were printed in ABS plastic, the $1,200 computer-controlled (CNC) milling machine called the “Ghost Gunner,” is capable of automatically carving polymer, wood, and metal in three dimensions. More from Wired:
Americans want guns without serial numbers. And apparently, they want to make them at home.
On Wednesday, Cody Wilson’s libertarian non-profit Defense Distributed revealed the Ghost Gunner, a $1,200 computer-controlled (CNC) milling machine designed to let anyone make the aluminum body of an AR-15 rifle at home, with no expertise, no regulation, and no serial numbers. Since then, he’s sold more than 200 of the foot-cubed CNC mills—175 in the first 24 hours. That’s well beyond his expectations; Wilson had planned to sell only 110 of the machines total before cutting off orders.
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Look at all these cowering posts. Are these the writings of a free people?
The build parties are most popular in California where every gun sale must go through a dealer and be recorded by the state. I imagine the same restrictions apply to other leftist hell holes. Then you have those who just don’t want to leave a paper trail. Even in Texas when I see people selling AR’s person to person the seller usually insists on doing a transfer even though it is not legally required.
To your point I have found that I can get a good lower shipped and transfered for less than the cost of an 80% lower.
True, lowers are dirt cheap.
You can get the whole damn gun for $700-$800, or even less.
Are we free?
See if one of the old farts at your local gun store will teach you the secret hand shake :-)
I did the dorm thing. The one I stayed in was like going back in time to the early 70s. A weird feeling.
I got through EAA without spending a lot of money. The dorm people pointed me to Green Bay and the stadium tour. I don’t care about football but the tour was interesting and learned a lot. It was that day trip that made a noticeable dent in the budget.
The railroad museum was really interesting. I liked it better.
I flip through the magazines and pass them on to my uncle who was a chopper mechanic.
They could sell tens of thousands in time
bump to digest later
It was rhetorical. We all know the answer.
“Well, what do you know.... our harddrive crashed... then the dog ate it and it was lost in an electro-magnet for a bit before being shredded.... but you can have the pieces”
They’re not into ARs. Just collecting old cowboy guns.
Thanks. I’ve read some opinions where you can add a serial number and transfer them through a FFL.
You need more than a drill press unless you are EXTREMELY good at operating it. The 80% lowers sold today have the trigger well solid.
“You need more than a drill press unless you are EXTREMELY good at operating it. The 80% lowers sold today have the trigger well solid.”
No you don’t. A drill and a dremmel will do it, even on the solid fire control lowers. It just takes more time (a lot more), but can still be done in less than a good solid work day.
A vice is nice to have, but C clamps and some wood can work also.
So the anti-gunner’s new term to scare each other is “ghost gun”.
I would think you would have to get licensed as a manufacturer.
I’m not sure what you mean by making “a 100% receiver ONCE legally”, but you can make as many as you want and you can transfer them in your will.
Thanks for clearing up the will thing.
Yep, there is a M1911 manufacturer in Idaho that built 80% frames and invited all their buyers over to use their machines to finish the frame. Since they simply instructed the purchaser how to do it and did not do the work, there was nothing the feds could do.
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