3D printed gun
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- CALLES0
- Hello, boys.prophetone
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- moth0
Guns don't kill people, 3D printers do.
- prophetone0
...well couldn't you print certain parts in hard wax and convert to metal via lost-wax casting? or build 1:1 positives to act as plugs for carbon fiber forms?
- I'd be surprised if they could print hot wax - wax is a fiddly fucker like that,.. but yeah, in plastics, why not?detritus
- fine print low heat plastic that can act in the same manner, melt away when thrown in an ovenprophetone
- JackRyan0
Ehhh...am I missing something? The only 3D printers Ive used print in either starch or plastic. Some parts would have to be made out of steel right? Barrel, firing mechanisms...etc?
- 3d printers do strong piolymer plastics and metals too.detritus
- ...what did you use one for, btw?detritus
- Product/environmenta... models while I was in school. I didn't know they printed in metal now. Rad...JackRyan
- check out materials at shapeways http://www.shapeways…scarabin
- jonny_quest_lives0
Dunno what the big deal is... People have been selling 80% AR lower receivers for years. You do the remaining 20% machining at home and you now have a homebuilt AR-15.
http://www.aresarmor.com/install…
- yurimon0
Also there are material breakthroughs in cell chips. They are looking for cheaper plastics with conductive properties. Those seem ideal for this type of combination. However for 3d printing, heat or proxy production of holding material together from powder. or cut from solid block which has limitations on design, produces waste. Powder/proxy or heat is flexible but bond seems weaker.
- Horp0
I can't open the link except for seeing the picture. Surely to goodness though, ballistics would fucking destroy a gun consisting of arefully place seperate portions of something. Surely to goodness its easier to mill and cast a reliable gun, the proper way, than it is to print one.
Am I missing something?
- Presumably if you have a decent 3d printer, it'd be much easier to print a barrel than mill one...detritus
- ...even if it is just a one-shot deal.detritus
- Anyway this is all early doors - no one's realistically suggesting people are going to print Uzis tomorrow.detritus
- Use the 3D printed parts as molds for casting?i_monk
- Beeswax0
What happened with software will eventually happen with hardware as well.
Combine this technology with Chip Printing http://phys.org/news2678.html
and people will begin sharing guides on to how to make your own cell phones.
- moth0
That'll be interesting. Sofa's with cancer.
- i_monk0
I remember reading an article (at dezeen or bldgblog, I thought, but Google isn't finding it) speculating that manufacturers will try to circumvent 3d printing by imprinting codes that will cause deformities when scanned. Furniture with tumours, that sort of thing.
- i think it same concept as virus. you will need like Nortons 3d printing virus scan...yurimon
- moth0
A gun has to suffer massive forces though right? What's the medium used to print? Surely a printed gun will fall apart?
- moth0
But... but... can it print me a Cherry 2000?
I mean that would be proper useful.
- yurimon0
Alot of what this is reminds me of 17th century france. when they banned buttons.
"Two of the most extreme examples of the suppression of innovation in France occurred shortly after the death of Colbert during the lengthy reign of Louis XIV. Button-making in France had been controlled by various guilds, depending on the material used, the most important part belonging to the cord and button makers' guild, who made cord buttons by hand. By the 1690s, tailors and dealers launched the innovation of weaving buttons from the material used in the garment. The outrage of the inefficient hand-button-makers brought the state leaping to their defense.
In the late 1690s, fines were imposed on the production, sale, and even the wearing of the new buttons, and the fines were continually increased. The local guild wardens even obtained the right to search people's houses and to arrest anyone in the street who wore the evil and illegal buttons. In a few years, however, the state and the hand-button-makers had to give up the fight, since everyone in France was using the new buttons."
source: http://mises.org/daily/4315
- I'm pretty sure that's what all of us were thinking.Fax_Benson
- bored2death0
We are certainly entering a new mechanical age of reproduction.
There will come a day when a perfect copy of any object is possible.
Where will value come from?
- chossy0
omg prints a gun. Looks down barrel and fires in his face, he blinds himself in one eye.
A company printed a safety leaflet warning him to not look down the barrel of the gun but omg thought they were taking away his freedom and liberties and trying to control him so he looked down the barrel.
I think this probably the kind of thing that would need to happen to you, omg, for you to even have a modicum of sense rattled into that thick skull of yours. I hope you do read safety leaflets etc. be safe out there and watch out for puddles as you could very well drown in them.
- GeorgesII0
Can someone print me some freedom and liberty?
- omg0
Once you see past the curtain of fear, of people running around with guns, and the morals of defense and security. Which has been a running debate for too many years now.
You see that the powers that be are puppeteering people to act upon what you can or cannot print. If they can stop you from printing a gun, how much further will big businesses go to protect their investments?
- omg. You have a good point. They are already starting to protect their investments.yurimon