Gunsmith Uses 3D Printer To Make A Rifle
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Gunsmith Uses 3D Printer To Make A Rifle
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Re: Gunsmith Uses 3D Printer To Make A Rifle
#2A long post on the topic of CNC, printing firearms, and more from a few months back:
http://www.popehat.com/2011/10/06/the-third-wave-cnc-stereol...
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#3Man, they didn't show you that in Star Trek...
edit: to be specific, they glossed over it instead of confronting a scenario where an enemy hijacked a replicator to make whatever physical or chemical weapons they wanted at a moment's notice.
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#4Well, it's definitely possible to print a silencer, a pistol shouldn't be that much harder. I'm afraid that this would make the governments impose stricter laws on 3D printers, which is not a good thing...
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#5I might be reading it wrong, but it looks to me like he printed a receiver and placed all the moving parts and the barrel etc. in it. See "I printed a modified version of the lower from cncguns.com"
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#6I guess 3D printers will be banned from the airports.
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#7Seriously, what happened to real journalism?
Articles are now being written based on a handful of unverified forum posts. Really?
Re: Gunsmith Uses 3D Printer To Make A Rifle
#8Well, it's definitely possible to print a silencer, a pistol shouldn't be that much harder. I'm afraid that this would make the governments impose stricter laws on 3D printers, which is not a good thing...
A suppressor has no moving parts and serves only to baffle the expanding gas and reduce noise. It experiences relatively low heat and gas pressure. The components of a firearm have far tighter tolerances and must withstand significantly higher levels of pressure and heat. It's not even close to the same thing.
Re: Gunsmith Uses 3D Printer To Make A Rifle
#9Man, they didn't show you that in Star Trek... edit: to be specific, they glossed over it instead of confronting a scenario where an enemy hijacked a replicator to make whatever physical or chemical weapons they wanted at a moment's notice.
Actually it was touched on in a number of episodes (which i don't feel like digging up) but in more than once instance they mentioned that the replicators had safety systems that prevented unauthorized creation of at least some dangerous materials, (from what i recall, poisons were mentioned in one, weapons themselves i'm not sure).
Re: Gunsmith Uses 3D Printer To Make A Rifle
#10Seriously, what happened to real journalism? Articles are now being written based on a handful of unverified forum posts. Really?
1) Betabeat isn't the NY Times.
2) Betabeat only reported that this forum existed and that someone had made these claim, which is indisputably correct. You may think it's not particularly news worthy, but online journalism is a big places and there's plenty of room for everything.
3) Would you rather this article not be written?