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World's first 3D printed gun test fired
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#42You can't 3D print the bullets. Thus I'd speculate that this development does not significantly impact the effectiveness of gun control laws nor does it accomplish the goals of the creator.
Bullets aren't really controlled. You can buy them online or at Walmart, legally.
For starters, there is no Walmart here, nor is ammunition legally obtainable as far as I know.
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#43The only reason for wanting to read this is in hope that it alerts everyone about how flawed US gun regulations are and home much there is to do. Also, if this "manufacturing" was to be regulated, it would be great to know that gun manufacturer's representative, the NRA, will no longer be needed, if in fact "freedom" is that its members want.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it's a big story. 3d printing opens many possibilities that CNC doesn't offer. A CNC requires specialised skill. Downloading and printing 3d doesn't. Building guns with a CNC requires a lot of labour. Whereas you can imagine having a lab full of 3d printers being operated by a single pensioner. 3d printers look like they'll be generic and mass-produced. If so, in ten years there will be 3d printers everywhere…
> eople sitting in refugee camps on the edge of hotzones won't have have difficulty getting access to them. I am sorry but really - people in a refugee camp, with no sanitation, insufficient food and clean water, and yet working 3D printers with plentiful supplies of plastic dust? Refugee camps are by defintion, walkable from the worlds worst trouble spots, Access to weapons in the worlds worst trouble spots is not h…
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#45The only reason for wanting to read this is in hope that it alerts everyone about how flawed US gun regulations are and home much there is to do. Also, if this "manufacturing" was to be regulated, it would be great to know that gun manufacturer's representative, the NRA, will no longer be needed, if in fact "freedom" is that its members want.
The NRA is the gunowners' representative. The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Shooting_Sports_Founda...) is the "national trade association for the firearms industry..., the organization has more than 7,000 members: firearms manufacturers, distributors, retailers, shooting ranges, sportsmen's clubs and media."
Whereas individual gun owners, 5 million, a million more than before Newton, are the ones who belong to the NRA, and who, along with the gun owners who listen to us, are the ones who give it such political heft. Hatred towards "the NRA" is hatred towards the most politically active 1/20th of the nation's gun owners .
ADDED: Such as me, my father, my brothers, my oldest nephew, etc. You'll have to pardon us if we take this a bit personally.
Anyway, confusion over something so basic as who are the major players on the pro-RKBA side is one reason we don't pay much attention to ... negative sentiments such as you express.
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#46Actually, if the high school shooters where using one of this fully 3D printed gun that will destroy itself after a couple shots, instead of a more durable metal barrel, the shooters would have been stopped and neutralized sooner.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Now if you can 3d-print a reliable rifle like an AK-47, that could get interesting. The team that made this gun are already doing the most difficult bit from the AR-15, a semi-automatic rifle that has been used in several massacres in the west (including the one that sparked heavy gun regulation in Australia in the 90s). That's why I thought this was news. First they made the lower-receiver of a powerful gun. Now the…
the most difficult bit from the AR-15 As far as I understand it, the lower receiver on an AR-15 is actually a pretty trivial housing component, subject to almost no operational pressures, but interesting legally because it's where the gun's serial number happens to be stamped. (But I should note I don't really know much about AR-15s, just stuff I've read.)
It's simple as in there are no moving parts, but if it's not machined to the proper specifications the gun will be unreliable. The market failed for years trying to make the lower out of things such as carbon fiber instead of regular cast metal.
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#48Next up: 3D printed nuclear warhead. Only the plutonium is made from metal. As the saying goes: Hydrogen bombs don't kill people, people do.
The hard part has always been getting the fissionables.
The only country that's ever had a problem getting their first nuke to go boom as expected is North Korea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_North_Korean_nuclear_test), and they may have gotten their act together in their second try 3 years later (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_North_Korean_Nuclear_Test; the lack of detected radionuclides after it makes one wonder).
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don't even need a CNC machine. Just old fashioned tools will do just fine. Guns predate CNC tools by a comfortable margin in time.
Kind of reminds me of the arguments about ajax around 2004 when the term was popularised: everyone (me included) went "This is stupid, we've had 'ajax' for ever: years ago I was doing long polling with iframes, this is no different it's just a bit more convenient". Convenience turns out to be a pretty big contributing factor in how many people do something!
>Convenience turns out to be a pretty big contributing factor in how many people do something!
This is anti-American propaganda. All those mass shooters, they would have just found another way.
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#50You can't 3D print the bullets. Thus I'd speculate that this development does not significantly impact the effectiveness of gun control laws nor does it accomplish the goals of the creator.
I hope so. I live in a country where I do not have to carry a gun, the vast majority of people do not carry guns, police officers rarely carry guns, it is very unlikely you'll be killed with a gun, and I'd like it to stay that way.
You just don't understand freedom man.