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Goodbye Gun Control: The $1,200 Machine For 3D-Printing Guns Has Sold Out In 36 Hours
zero hedge ^ | 10/6/14 | tyker dyrdeb

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...


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KEYWORDS: 3d; banglist; control; gun; printing
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To: Beagle8U

Because there is no record or background check with a 80% lower.


61 posted on 10/06/2014 2:17:22 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Tenacious 1
They left some pertinent parts out of the price discussion. Besides the machine, there are some things you have to buy. I suppose the first assembly would be the most expensive. After you have manufactured 10 or 12, you are probably able to cover the start up costs. However, if you are making them for sale, you are committing a felony. (as I understand it).

Not if you go into the business of RENTING the machine. I could see somebody buying the machine, not using it to make anything for himself, but renting, for cash, access to the machine. And keep no records of who rented access to it.

62 posted on 10/06/2014 2:18:31 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: All

Does anyone know of any place where John Q. Citizen can walk in off the street
and buy an 80% lower for cash without providing name, rank, and serial number?


63 posted on 10/06/2014 2:20:21 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: mylife

It’s not a gray area. The ATF has admitted that you may legally construct a functioning firearm (i.e. the part that is serialized by the manufacturer) as long as you do the work yourself. Since a 80% completed lower is just a chunk of metal as far as the AFT cares, anyone can purchase one without having it recorded in some dealers bound book. Therefore the ATF has no record of it.


64 posted on 10/06/2014 2:20:55 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: wrench
Absolutely! These folks building 80% guns are nuts if thy think the gooberment doesn’t know. They have everyone’s credit card purchase info, 1,000 rounds of 223 ordered, you are assumed to have an AR. Same for a barrel, fire control group, etc.

Unless you make a habit of only buying with cash at gun shows. Even if you order online, if you have ONE registered AR-15, how can they know how many UNREGISTERED AR-15s you have?

65 posted on 10/06/2014 2:24:38 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: PapaBear3625

They know.

If they want our guns, they will knock on the door and demand them. Hand them “the one” and they will just burn your house down cause they know you are lying.

The next guy will give up ALL of his guns, 80% or not.

This is what the Nazis did and it was very effective. In case you missed it, our government is using both Hitler’s and Stalin’s playbook these days.


66 posted on 10/06/2014 2:34:07 PM PDT by wrench
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To: USMCPOP

How about those AK-47 “flats”, sheet metal with machinists’ drawings that they used to sell? Designed for production using stone age technology, add the front & rear trunions to the formed sheet metal, & there’s an AK receiver.


67 posted on 10/06/2014 2:42:30 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("I am now a radicalized infidel.")
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To: GeronL

I wouldn’t even do the Eric Holder/Lois Learner “my dog ate it” line.

I would just be up front with my customers that you need to send a cashier’s check, that you don’t keep records of who you sell it to, and if they want warranty work, they need to present the original item.

No sales list, no email list, no nothing.

From day one.


68 posted on 10/06/2014 2:51:30 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: longtermmemmory
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69 posted on 10/06/2014 3:00:25 PM PDT by Col Freeper (FR: A smorgasbord of Conservative Mindfood - dig in and enjoy it!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Yes fut there a restrictions on sale of said firearm.


70 posted on 10/06/2014 3:18:40 PM PDT by mylife
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To: Repeal The 17th
Does anyone know of any place where John Q. Citizen can walk in off the street and buy an 80% lower for cash without providing name, rank, and serial number?

I've seen lots of 80% lowers sold at gun shows, no way of identifying purchasers. Just park a few blocks away and walk, so the ATF doesn't record your license plate. ;-)

71 posted on 10/06/2014 4:16:42 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: mylife; All

My understanding is that once you have possessed the item for a year, you may sell it. The 1 year period without sale is presumptive proof that you did not “manufacture” it for profit.

That is the period an FFL needs to hold a personal firearm that he obtained from his FFL before he can sell it as a private party, without record-keeping.


72 posted on 10/06/2014 6:01:11 PM PDT by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: marktwain

How do they know when you “made” it?

This is why I never got a CR license.
The rules are vague at best.


73 posted on 10/06/2014 6:03:47 PM PDT by mylife
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To: mylife

You are correct.

But the burden of proof is on them, not you.

At least until considerable further degradation of the courts...


74 posted on 10/06/2014 6:27:31 PM PDT by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: marktwain

I just try to stay out of the gray areas with ATF.

The Feds had my fingerprints and address a long time ago.


75 posted on 10/06/2014 6:42:22 PM PDT by mylife
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To: thorvaldr
thorvaldr said: "... all you need to finish a 80% lower is a drill press."

Well, ... I know a guy who tried this. When the end mill slipped in the inexpensive drill chuck, the lower was ruined before he realized what was happening. There are probably some drill presses which are suitable, but many inexpensive ones are not.

76 posted on 10/06/2014 6:50:28 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: mylife

I’ve heard that you can transfer without cost. FWIW....


77 posted on 10/07/2014 5:14:19 PM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: mylife

“Sorry, dear...the law says I GOT to keep it....”


78 posted on 10/07/2014 5:15:23 PM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: mylife
Yes, you can sell one, even more than one.

You just can't make them with the intention to sell them as part of a business.

79 posted on 10/07/2014 5:20:13 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: mylife

There is no gray area. Manufacturing and being “in the business” are defined in law.


80 posted on 10/07/2014 5:22:34 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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