I heard about this before on a documentary that was recommended on HN, so I'll pass the recommendation on:
Print the Legend, from 2014, on the story of 3d printing. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3557464/
Cody Wilson, the man who wants Americans to 3D print their own guns
31–40 of 125 posts
Re: Cody Wilson, the man who wants Americans to 3D print their own guns
#32I'm going to pedantically nitpick the title, but surely "3D" should apply to "print" rather than "guns". Printing 2d guns isn't a big deal.
Re: Cody Wilson, the man who wants Americans to 3D print their own guns
#33IMHO this whole movement is out there to point out how ridiculous some legislation is. Pretty much anyone with a brain can make a deadly weapon with time and materials. They even make guns in prisons, so of course someone could 3d print the serialized parts of a gun. In certain types of guns those 3d printed parts are only minorly structual so they don't receive that much force, you could even conceivably hand carve…
You can make a knife from a sharpened spoon, but you can do a lot more damage, more reliably, to more people, with a real sword. For now (although not forever) you're not going to 3D print an AR-15 Lower.
http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_3_118/579913_3D_printed_lower__...
Literally 10 seconds on Google.
Re: Cody Wilson, the man who wants Americans to 3D print their own guns
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, you're right. See, for instance, the way that the West totally put down the Taliban in Afghanistan and pacified the entire country, which is now peaceful to this day. The Taliban were just a bunch of illiterate goat herders with AKs, so there's no way they could stand up to the America's more technologically advanced army, plus the drones. And then look at Iraq, and Syria, and all of the other insurgencies invo…
Surely the big lesson from the middle East is that guns can deliver violent chaos or despotic centralism but not peaceful stability?
I'm not sure that there are any good lessons to be learned from that region at this point. It brings to mind the ending of Burn After Reading.
Re: Cody Wilson, the man who wants Americans to 3D print their own guns
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think there's enough evidence to say that we necessarily couldn't crush those insurgencies with drones. As far as I can tell, the US has (reasonably, humanely)[1] pulled its punches considerably over the last fifteen years. [1] to the extent that any war can have these descriptors slapped on them. War is hell, The US has done inhumane stuff, I don't think they did as much as for example I think they did in Vi…
Then you're left to argue that the US military has pulled its punches on the Taliban, but they're really gonna take the gloves off if they get turned against their fellow citizens. Good luck with that.
That doesn't seem too unreasonable. The former is a conflict half a world away for (at best) geopolitical goals, the later would be an existential threat.
Re: Cody Wilson, the man who wants Americans to 3D print their own guns
#36IMHO this whole movement is out there to point out how ridiculous some legislation is. Pretty much anyone with a brain can make a deadly weapon with time and materials. They even make guns in prisons, so of course someone could 3d print the serialized parts of a gun. In certain types of guns those 3d printed parts are only minorly structual so they don't receive that much force, you could even conceivably hand carve…
You can make a knife from a sharpened spoon, but you can do a lot more damage, more reliably, to more people, with a real sword. For now (although not forever) you're not going to 3D print an AR-15 Lower.
You can start with an 80% lower and a $20 router from Harbor Freight and get something pretty good depending on how you set up a jig. It ain't rocket science.
Re: Cody Wilson, the man who wants Americans to 3D print their own guns
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Surely the big lesson from the middle East is that guns can deliver violent chaos or despotic centralism but not peaceful stability?
I'm not sure that there are any good lessons to be learned from that region at this point. It brings to mind the ending of Burn After Reading .
First and last lesson: never partition countries out of disparate ethnic/religious/sectarian groups who don't have some sort of larger overriding loyalty holding them together.
Of course, that boat sailed a while ago.
Re: Cody Wilson, the man who wants Americans to 3D print their own guns
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
In case of unbearable government tyranny, the soldiers are going to kill insurgents that are their own fathers, sons, and brothers?
Absolutely. Given the full power of the UCMJ, Oathkeepers are little more than a fun Constitutionalist fantasy.
Aww. I think you hurt someone's libertarian ideals with that comment.
Re: Cody Wilson, the man who wants Americans to 3D print their own guns
#39I've been watching this story for the longest time. Great to see it on HN so people can discuss it a bit more. Don't shoot the messenger (No pun intended!). Cody is only a small part of the story, and the wider implications of 3D printing is the democratization of so called 'physibles' into every household.
I think makerspace needs a story like this to catapult 3D printing into mainstream, just like Silk Road kick-started the Darknet market phenomenon.
It's not as if criminals haven't thought of importing guns in parts rather then the fully assembled piece anyways, so the outrage is uncalled for. I imagine the parts of real guns are made with equipment very similar to the equipment mentioned in the article anyway?
Re: Cody Wilson, the man who wants Americans to 3D print their own guns
#40I'm going to pedantically nitpick the title, but surely "3D" should apply to "print" rather than "guns". Printing 2d guns isn't a big deal.
Imagine a paper cut at 370 m/s