I'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
That is the stuff of nightmares.
Cody Wilson, the man who wants Americans to 3D print their own guns
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Re: Cody Wilson, the man who wants Americans to 3D print their own guns
#52To be honest, though Cody Wilson was responsible for the initial organization of the movement, he is largely irrelevant now, and the DIY gun community has pretty much disavowed him and moved over to FOSSCAD.org // https://twitter.com/fosscad and IRC. To show the difference in the developments, compare the single-shot Liberator featured in this article to the revolving Washbear designs by FOSSCAD: https://imgur.com/a/…
Thanks, this kind of perspective is useful for outsiders.
Quick comment: isn't "Free Open Source Software & Computer Aided Design" a pretty misleading name for a group that is apparently only interested in 3d printing firearms?
Re: Cody Wilson, the man who wants Americans to 3D print their own guns
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It is easier and more economical to mill with a cnc. It is probably far cheaper even to just walk to the gun store and buy a rifle than it is to 3D print something similar.
Not everywhere has gun stores.
Re: Cody Wilson, the man who wants Americans to 3D print their own guns
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of the most interesting things about the gun rights community is how strenuously this exact question of "where do you draw the bright line that, once crossed, you'll rise up?" is avoided. You know how that guy took that video of himself asking anti-abortion protestors, "if abortion is murder, then shouldn't we put women who procure abortions on trial for murder?" and they all just short-circuited, like they'd nev…
Indeed. Which is why the widespread social stigmatizing and LEA spying of militia membership is so very effective, and so very worrisome. No reasonable organized resistance could ever arise in the US, as it stands - even if despotism took hold.
Militias do a fantastic job of socially stigmatizing themselves, no government plots required for that one at least.
Re: Cody Wilson, the man who wants Americans to 3D print their own guns
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It is easier and more economical to mill with a cnc. It is probably far cheaper even to just walk to the gun store and buy a rifle than it is to 3D print something similar.
A CNC is something that is pitifully easy for a regulatory agency to track, as far as large numbers of purchases go. See: that fellow who was milling AR-15 lowers and just got busted. We're talking about the difference between machining metal, and downloading and printing a schematic. I hope that you do see the difference.
Re: Cody Wilson, the man who wants Americans to 3D print their own guns
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
No it isn't, but look at the instructions on a pack of ketchup some time and bask in the glory of the LCD. "Set up a jig" is alien babble to a huge number of people, for whom, "Press print" would not be.
Re: Cody Wilson, the man who wants Americans to 3D print their own guns
#57With the advancement of technology it's harder and harder to sympathize with the idea that firearms in the US could effectively combat governmental tyranny. Situations such as Ruby Ridge and Waco could be handled by drones now. It's hard to believe that there is a principle at play here deeper than a simple love of guns.
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Re: Cody Wilson, the man who wants Americans to 3D print their own guns
#58To be honest, though Cody Wilson was responsible for the initial organization of the movement, he is largely irrelevant now, and the DIY gun community has pretty much disavowed him and moved over to FOSSCAD.org // https://twitter.com/fosscad and IRC. To show the difference in the developments, compare the single-shot Liberator featured in this article to the revolving Washbear designs by FOSSCAD: https://imgur.com/a/…
Thanks, this kind of perspective is useful for outsiders. Quick comment: isn't "Free Open Source Software & Computer Aided Design" a pretty misleading name for a group that is apparently only interested in 3d printing firearms?
Agreed, but it came out of evolution - Cody's organization used to be called "DEFCAD" (Defense CAD), but it operated more as a company than as an open source initiative, so the community forked to "FOSSCAD" to indicate that's how they would be operating.
Maybe FOSSDEF would have made more sense but it's kind of too late now.
Re: Cody Wilson, the man who wants Americans to 3D print their own guns
#59I'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.
As far as pedantic nitpicks go, that's actually pretty good. We changed the title.
Re: Cody Wilson, the man who wants Americans to 3D print their own guns
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is easier and more economical to mill with a cnc. It is probably far cheaper even to just walk to the gun store and buy a rifle than it is to 3D print something similar.
A CNC is something that is pitifully easy for a regulatory agency to track, as far as large numbers of purchases go. See: that fellow who was milling AR-15 lowers and just got busted. We're talking about the difference between machining metal, and downloading and printing a schematic. I hope that you do see the difference.
Easier than 3D printers? how so?