Well, no more worries about fixing the gun laws...
Soon you'll be able to print your weapons at home: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2408899,00.asp
Well, no more worries about fixing the gun laws...
Soon you'll be able to print your weapons at home: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2408899,00.asp
For the amount of money it costs to buy a 3-D printer (about 1500 bucks IIRC for the cheapest kind) combined with the effort needed to gather all the materials for it, you could get a real 22. caliber handgun illegally for similar if not less effort and cost.
It's always interesting to see technology progress, but this isn't a game changer in any way.
Originally posted by Tzeentch._
For the amount of money it costs to buy a 3-D printer (about 1500 bucks IIRC for the cheapest kind) combined with the effort needed to gather all the materials for it, you could get a real 22. caliber handgun illegally for similar if not less effort and cost.
Also, the quote from the article is a bit lol.
"We created the ability to destroy civilization more than half a century ago and today it's a totally banal idea or you know, we've managed to get by in a world with nuclear weapons. So why would the Wiki Weapon ruin the world?"
Hey guys and gals, it's much easier to get your hands on a nuke than we thought!
Originally posted by Tzeentch._
For the amount of money it costs to buy a 3-D printer (about 1500 bucks IIRC for the cheapest kind) combined with the effort needed to gather all the materials for it, you could get a real 22. caliber handgun illegally for similar if not less effort and cost.
For $1500 you could drive from anywhere in the US to a state with few gun laws and guy a cheap AR pattern rifle.
Originally posted by Omega Vision
There's one application I see for this, and it's making guns to elude metal detectors.Assuming of course an all-plastic gun would work and shoot reliably.
You could easily build a bulky single shot gun in the shape of a cannon. I doubt rifling would work. Anything more complex than that seems unlikely.
I know one guy built a lower receiver, magazine, and spring for an AR-15 using one of these printers.
Originally posted by Oliver North
all plastic bullets?
A single bullet probably wouldn't set off a metal detector.
Ah, now I know what 3D printing is. For a second I read the headline and got worried about some company trying to create some appliance that converts energy into matter. Better that everybody have a gun that one person have an accident with a replicator and blow up their house in a manner that can be seen from the Andromeda Galaxy.
Anyway, a 3D printed gun sounds like something that would cause sever injury to the user.
You can make single-shot guns out of plastic and scrap now, if the purpose is to bypass a detector and get a shot off at someone. Which seems to be the only real-world use for the idea he's marketing.
Having said that, the guy in the article sounds like an arrogant douche, so I hope he fails on that merit alone. Marketing weapons intended for criminal purposes is another argument.
Originally posted by Tzeentch._
I knew it.
Originally posted by Omega Vision
I expect this kind of thing from Dadud, not you.
you can't handle the heat
its actually kind of strange. I set them off when I only had one pierced with a small like 14 gauge barbell in it, but when I had both done with much larger 6 gauge barbells in, it didn't set it off.
It was at Canadian security, so it was really funny. They got embarrassed when they had to check it.
Originally posted by Robtard
You can make single-shot guns out of plastic and scrap now, if the purpose is to bypass a detector and get a shot off at someone. Which seems to be the only real-world use for the idea he's marketing.Having said that, the guy in the article sounds like an arrogant douche, so I hope he fails on that merit alone. Marketing weapons intended for criminal purposes is another argument.