Preserving the second amendment -Building the plastic gun (Page 3 of 4)

Did you write that? Nice copy work Manx.

Making weapons is as old as humans using tools.  Anyone that ever set foot in a metal shop can put an edge on something.
People have died from being stabbed with weapons made of paper.

I find it strange that people focus on 3D printers in this use as an unusual issue.
In a way it is not healthy.  That amused focus will eventually lead some regulator to believe that 3D printers attract weapons makers.

There is really nothing special about using a 3D printer for this purpose.
One could manufacture a light duty machine shop themselves and do the very same thing only out of metal or stock.

Then there's the whole 2nd Amendment issue.  Let's all get real here.  These toy guns are not going to stop a drone strike.
Further there's plenty of evidence that slave owners wanted the 2nd Amendment to insure they could carry weapons to collect slaves.

Personally I don't care if people want guns or to smith their own guns.  I just think that too many people don't know what they are doing.
I also think they don't really understand what they are talking about and that makes for a very tense stand off.

If they take all the guns away it's well proven you still have plenty of options to defend yourself.
After all anyone creative enough to use this technology like this is creative enough to figure out more ways to cause harm.
I am pro-gun ownership, but realistic that it's a profit center for business that capitalizes on other people's lack of skill.

Like any other business.  If profits ever got thin surely gun manufacturers would just obsolete models.

That aside, there is absolutely no way *anyone* can stop functional models for weapons from being transfered around.
There are so many ways to do it.  For that reason alone I'd rather large, obvious sites not post this stuff out where the press can run with it.
Let the average shmuck learn something to find it.

Okay when I'm done in my forge I'll go into my shop
A .22 is more than sufficient to kill someone and plenty of people have made poor man's 'Saturday night special'.
You don't even need a whole shop for it if you don't mind risking taking off your hand.
Was I the only kid that played with doing this when I was younger?
Even the original article to this topic refers to 'zip guns'.

If you print the *entire firearm* with for example an SD2 I doubt you'll end up with something as durable as your average assault rifle (200 rounds is really nothing to brag about and that wasn't done with a cheap printer).  Surely the odds are most modifications you can print this way that actually hold up could also be sculpted or poured in aluminum easy enough.

Apples to apples.

I grant more expensive printers with laser sintering could produce adequately reliable fire arm parts.
Still I'm not convinced that doing that produces anything less traceable or more useful to someone with really bad intentions.

Never let us mind the damage someone with a good old fashioned Jersey cocktail can do.  Maybe we can 3D print the can?

If you think about it for a bit it's sort of interesting that in one topic people are worried about having to make adjustments to their SD printer and in the other people are extolling how easy it is to just go and buy a cheap printer to print a firearm.  Most inexpensive printers require a little thought to get them working.  Spend a lot of money on a really good printer and quickly you'll find yourself getting a visit from the maker that has you by the balls and is under pressure from the Feds (and that has obviously happened already http://www.webpronews.com/diy-gun-proje … ed-2012-10).  More importantly the transaction itself is probably large enough to result in bank papers being filed.

That was nto soemthignw e doubted the problem wasn't that there were gun owners out ther or enthusiasts. Its that the media has its meme and marching orders and they are hellbent on portraying what happened in as bad a light as they can to guilt people into doing as they wish. the problem is there are to many stupid people who watch tte news once aweek and then have access to a voting machien or telephone. While the people who dopay atention or feelacertain way have real jobs they have to go work and so these thigns slip their mind... goon over to def cad syko they seem like nice fellas willing to help out anyone who wants to learn

I agree completely perfect example bidens "video game blame" even though its not video games fault yet thousands of people now believe it is

This being said more than likely this will be a 1 shot derringer style 22 that must be taken apart to be reloaded

printed a working clip for my friends gun and suppressor fully functional

Close enough

Oh, a flash suppressor... as long as you follow the rules noise suppressors are legal in most states

On another note what kind of flash hider did you do... I tried a couple and they didn't last more than 3 shots :0

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/1549 … -been-made

worlds first entirely printed 3d gun

photos
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenbe … un-photos/

Defense Distributed has announced they will be releasing the Liberator, a fully printed pistol, soon. They also posted pictures, see Defcad.org twitter feed.