Defense Distributed's Cody Wilson Explains the Printed Firearm

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+8 1. Keiichii commented 11 years ago

What is next step?
Printed gun.
Printed food.
Printed life.
Printed girlfriend? :D
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+14 2. banzemanga commented 11 years ago

Remember to use printed plastic gun powder too! :x
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-4 3. Natan_el_Tigre commented 11 years ago

Texas: The last bastion of __________.
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-1 4. kekke2000 commented 11 years ago

They should make all guns with a 180 degree turn on the pipe. That would solve a lot of suffering for the innocent.
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+8 5. ProfessionalGeek commented 11 years ago

This may seem scary, but I'll take my future with an extra helping of freedom thank you. And just wait until we can 3D print with graphene...
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0 6. imagic commented 11 years ago

yeah,,, lets print a @#$@ gun instead of something usefull.... i hope they will go bankrupt quickly
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+3 7. mosfet23 commented 11 years ago

This is what you call exploiting an obvious loophole in firearms regulation. New regulation of the firing mechanism and barrel will be the obvious result with the ensuing 'outraged' gun advocates in 3...2...1
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0 8. loadrunner commented 11 years ago

Regulations won't stop anything, those are just words on paper. It is just not cool to use a 3D printer for guns, possible they ban the printers for firearm parts, making it almost impossible to develop the technology for medical use.

But that is common. Create a machine or technology with the intention to save a life, and always a jerk who turns it into something to take a life.
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+6 9. Gorf commented 11 years ago

I don't see the problem here. They've printed their own lower receiver and mag to prove that it can be done. This means that firearms regulations (and probably others) aren't going to work because components can be acquired without record. In the mind of a politician this means 3D printers need to be regulated too because they can print restricted items.

They are just proving a point. Here in the UK private ownership of most firearms has been banned by regulation, and it's only affected recreational shooters. The loonies who shoot up schools and the criminals and gangs can still get hold of them for less than the cost (and less hassle) than a realistic BB gun.
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+2 10. LightAng3l commented 11 years ago

Ban violent movies, and violent video games, and the ban violent music...while your at it ban your mother too! Whatever it takes just don't ban your precious guns!
In South Korea people listen to music and watch violent movies and play video games more than anywhere else in the world, do you know how many school shootings they had? ZERO! Because guns are banned!
Damn hicks!
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-2 11. h8isgr8 commented 11 years ago

Print me some ammunition for the guns I already have, then I'll be impressed.
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+2 12. wongraven commented 11 years ago

This will cut the price of guns , so maybe everyone can afford a machinegun in their home. But I would love to print my own bongs for starters, and maybe an action figure of myself :=) :(|)
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-1 13. Spartan118 commented 11 years ago

@1, sadly they already have printed girlfriends that people have actually married...
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+1 14. krillemaster commented 11 years ago

Well this is it, i'm never going to visit the southern parts of 'murica...

It's sad to see such a nice technology used to created weapons instead of useful things :(

#11 why would you want to use plastic bullets?
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+2 15. BabyJLE commented 11 years ago

He has actually has a license to manufacture now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DconsfGsXyA
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0 16. tas1978 commented 11 years ago

With the current price of the plastic used for the 3d printers, it's pretty impractical. If there is a legal means of obtaining these parts, like a federal firearms license, that's probably the better way to go.

You can make your own guns, that's not illegal, but manufacturing a gun and selling it to someone else is already regulated.
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+1 17. etplayer commented 11 years ago

This isn't necessarily a bad thing. Guns are not necessarily a bad thing. There are a lot of law abiding gun owners out there. Unfortunately, there are also a lot of highly strung nuts. As evidenced not only in the US but also China, if people can't get their hands on a gun, they will attack with whatever they can find, whether it be a fertilizer bomb, a knife, or a hijacked aircraft.
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-2 18. ughlah commented 11 years ago

#17 why do you mention china. There is no problems with shootings, fertilizer bombs or hijacked aircrafts over there.

#16 double the amount produced and the price will go down by 10%. With 3D printers i bet you any amount you are willing to wager that production cost will go down below 1% of the current price within 5 years.
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-1 19. roady commented 11 years ago

There are so many gun nuts in America it is not funny and it is spreading. And as far as I am concerned, if you are against guns, and you are nuts, you are a gun nut. The real issue here is not the device, but the people who are nuts. Why were well over half of the mass killings in the US done by people on legal drugs? Why is nothing being done about drugs that list psychotic behaviour as a known side effect? Is it something to do with them being worth billions a year? What about all the killings of less than four people, drug related? Why are people jumping on the bandwagon and ignoring known issues? Obsessive behaviour that ignores the facts is still nuts whether it is pro or anti gun.