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How well financed can a state actor or cartel be if they have to print out shitty plastic guns?
It's a pretty nice setup for assassinations Print a gun, use it, drop it, GOTO 10
It's on the internet. It won't be just "Americans". Nice that TFA mentioned Cody Wilson's interesting politics, too. He certainly lives them...
I don't see why a CAD file would be any different than normal instructions for building firearms. For example, building a 12 gauge shotgun from 1" and 3/4" steel pipe is cheaper, easier, and probably safer/more effective than the plastic gun from the article. It seems to me the 3D printing part of this made the article popular for clickbait and thus it garnered more attention than the traditional approaches to homema…
One concern is that it's now cheaper, easier, and faster to mass produce weapons which will evade metal detectors. I don't think any of this should be illegal, but the concerns should be considered.
Realistically, how effective would a 3D printed firearm be? I was under the impression that PLA/ABS plastics are simply not that strong of a material.
However, with printed metal (which exists today) it's very possible to print something more reliable, or mods for an existing gun, etc.