The world's first gun made with 3D printer technology has been successfully fired in the US.
The controversial group which created the firearm, Defense Distributed, plans to make the blueprints available online.
The group has spent a year trying to create the firearm, which was successfully tested on Saturday at a firing range south of Austin, Texas. Anti-gun campaigners have criticised the project. Europe's law enforcement agency said it was monitoring developments.
All made from plastic, well, except the firing pin which is metal.
you still need to get rounds for it though, and since countries with stringent gun laws also tend to have stringent ammo laws as well, i can't see this being a major crime threat
So how useful is a plastic gun going to be after firing 2 or 3 rounds? Is the barrel warped and unusable? It's one thing to fire one round with a plastic gun and have it work correctly, let's see how it handles on a firing range blasting off half a box of ammo. I'm guessing it's either too hot to hold or it's thoroughly destroyed. Plastics have never been all that good at handling heat.
lol @ the idiots who even thought of this. Only in Muricuh.
GONNAFISTYA wrote:So how useful is a plastic gun going to be after firing 2 or 3 rounds? Is the barrel warped and unusable? It's one thing to fire one round with a plastic gun and have it work correctly, let's see how it handles on a firing range blasting off half a box of ammo. I'm guessing it's either too hot to hold or it's thoroughly destroyed. Plastics have never been all that good at handling heat.
lol @ the idiots who even thought of this. Only in Muricuh.
i'm seeing three barrels in that picture so gee... that's a really good querstchun
andyman wrote:i'm seeing three barrels in that picture so gee... that's a really good querstchun
lol
Well I guess that flies in the face of those opposed to smaller magazine sizes because "it'll slow them down during a mass killin' having to reload" but there's no problem with having to swap out half the fucking gun?
The better question would be, "how accurate can that gun be?"
Since it's made of plastic, I don't think there's any way of creating useful rifling in the barrel that would have a significant effect on the bullet's spin. It may fire as accurately as a musket with a 2" barrel.
andyman wrote:i'm seeing three barrels in that picture so gee... that's a really good querstchun
lol
Well I guess that flies in the face of those opposed to smaller magazine sizes because "it'll slow them down during a mass killin' having to reload" but there's no problem with having to swap out half the fucking gun?
You gun nuts really don't think at all, do you?
quoting this to preserve your posting style: tries to make something out of nothing
seremtan wrote:you still need to get rounds for it though, and since countries with stringent gun laws also tend to have stringent ammo laws as well, i can't see this being a major crime threat
You can walk into Walmart and buy ammo off the shelf with no questions asked.
[quote="YourGrandpa"]I'm satisfied with voicing my opinion and moving on.[/quote]
Well I guess that flies in the face of those opposed to smaller magazine sizes because "it'll slow them down during a mass killin' having to reload" but there's no problem with having to swap out half the fucking gun?
You gun nuts really don't think at all, do you?
quoting this to preserve your posting style: tries to make something out of nothing
i just have to ask... u mad?
lol you're the one who couldn't answer the question but responded to my post anyways. Which one of us is mad?
seremtan wrote:you still need to get rounds for it though, and since countries with stringent gun laws also tend to have stringent ammo laws as well, i can't see this being a major crime threat
You can walk into Walmart and buy ammo off the shelf with no questions asked.
Transient wrote:You can walk into Walmart and buy ammo off the shelf with no questions asked.
yeah, anyone could just walk into the Hemel Hempstead branch of Walmart in a country where it's illegal to buy/sell ammo over the counter, with no questions asked
i thought it was obvious that when i said "countries with stringent gun laws" i wasn't referring to the United States of Jesusland
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seremtan wrote:you still need to get rounds for it though, and since countries with stringent gun laws also tend to have stringent ammo laws as well, i can't see this being a major crime threat
You can walk into Walmart and buy ammo off the shelf with no questions asked.
If you can find it. Most stores shelves are empty at the moment. Even with prices at record high prices...
andyman wrote:i'm seeing three barrels in that picture so gee... that's a really good querstchun
lol
Well I guess that flies in the face of those opposed to smaller magazine sizes because "it'll slow them down during a mass killin' having to reload" but there's no problem with having to swap out half the fucking gun?
You gun nuts really don't think at all, do you?
Way to completely miss the point of this gun while still feeling superior to everyone around you.
scared? wrote:3d printers will eventually use other materials besides plastics to make guns...
I agree. There was a science TV show here the other night where they had a similar technology laying down grown human tissue. The idea is to fabricate (love that word) human spare parts/replacements, being simple bone or muscle & nerve tissue in the immediate future. They say 5 -10 years
EtUL wrote:Way to completely miss the point of this gun while still feeling superior to everyone around you.
I'm sorry...the "point" of this gun?
Ok...I'll bite: what exactly IS the "point" that I'm missing?
The point was to make an open source gun that anyone could print at their house (with a 3d printer...not exactly in every home now...). They didn't want to make an ar-15. They only wanted to fire a single round from the beginning.
