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Topic: In the news: UK police cast doubt on 3D-printed 'gun parts'

http://news.yahoo.com/uk-police-cast-do … 03320.html

British officers said Friday they had seized what appeared to be gun components made on a 3-D printer — then, hours later, cast doubt on the find after technology experts said photos released by police appeared to be of parts for the printer itself.

Hahahahahahah.  Egg on their faces.

Anyone who knows anything about 3D printers knows that any randomly selected thing produced on a 3D printer has about a 75% chance to be a 3D printer part, and of those that remain, about a 75% chance to be either a Yoda, an octopus magnet, or an interlocking gears display piece.

"Look out, there's a madman on the loose and he's got... oh, no, he's got a 3D printer!  Run!  Run for your lives!"

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2 Reply by IanJohnson

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Re: In the news: UK police cast doubt on 3D-printed 'gun parts'

I can see why they were concerned, that thing in the picture was totally, kind of gun shaped.   Anyone could pick that up and start going "Pew! Pew!" and there would be nothing we could do about it.

Seriously, their forensic people just need to download the STLs (sorry, "Blueprints") from Pirate Bay and see what the parts actually look like.

I'm tempted to spend a few minutes in Meshmixer and make an AR-9 Yodareceiver.

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Re: In the news: UK police cast doubt on 3D-printed 'gun parts'

I for one would really like to see an AR-9 yodareceiver, do you think it would reach out further than my AR-15,AR-10 and AR-22 '3D Guns'.