From Forbes online ... Technology is rather amazing.

This Is The World's First Entirely 3D-Printed Gun (Photos) - Forbes

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I'm with the banned ...

Technology just keeps marching onward.

Just think where things will be in another century,

it's only been a little over a century since the Wright Brothers flew.

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NRA Pistol/Rifle Inst. RSO

On the news last night. Already have a congress person pushing a bill to outlaw them.

Of course when they showed it, it was picture of the receiver on a AR type upper with a drum type magazine

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Still Running Against the Wind

That technology was a staple of science fiction in the 1960s, now it’s here.

I'm afaid I don't quite understand how this works. I would like to print out a new mod 41 though.

I printed out one but I can not figure how to put ammo in it??

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Still Running Against the Wind

I'm not buying into this technology ... I've never liked plastic guns.

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I'm with the banned ...

They have been 3D printing stuff for years. The first i seen was when they 3D printed tools and used them as if they were the actual tools they copied.

Why are they just now getting around to making a big deal over this. Did they not realize u can take something from reality and print it on a 3D printer? WELL DUH!!!!!!

What the guy should do and what he will do is 2 different things. He should just keep the CAD files and just let the world forget they even exist. Because without "HIS" CAD files, no one can do anything. Of course a knowledgeable person could write/draw their own CAD files, and if they do then thats on them.

IMO, this guy isnt helping the pro gun guys any at all.

Hey, Maybe we can print 22 Long Rifle ammo too!

Who really cares about 3-D printing a firearm. You can make a working firearm out of pipe and scrap metal. When they start 3-D printing functionable 22 LR ammo, or better yet sending it to me electronicaly to MY printer THEN I'll be very Impressed.

Maybe they should just ban the use of CNC machines. Im sure those are readily accessible around the Country. Or did they forget how easy it was to make a firearm with one.

actually, I think I understand what the guy is trying to do.
as it stands, firearms are fairly easily regulated via import restrictions and regulations set upon domestic manufacturers.
His quest seems to be one to render regulation impossible.

in recent regulatory attempts, we nearly lost our AR's and standard cap mags nation wide.
His work offered us all a work around.
One school of thought, supported by history, is that such regulation leads to genocide when we cannot resist it.
The man has established himself as the second to last check and balance after the NRA who seems to be the third to last.
the final check and balance is us ... if we have the means ... which he gave us, free of charge.

At the end of the day, the congress critters do what they want as long as they can get away with it, and they just keep on trying. Yeah ... most of our fight should be, and is, there right now. but it should not be a singular focal point for all effort as we become blind to the next step should proper channels fail.

His printed mag has proven the effectiveness of his idea.
Just months ago the AR mag market ran bone dry and we could have lost a few manufacturers of them.
his services filled the void for some in the AR circles.

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it just needs more voltage

Heck copy machines are so good you can print money if you have the right paper. The copiers got so good they had to change the paper money to build in more safeguards to help prevent forgery.

I just want a Star Trek replicator.

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Still Running Against the Wind

Technology marches on. This is good. It gives the antis something else to cry about. They better get busy trying to ban laser death beams, because I'm going to get one when they hit the market. If we can keep the gun grabbers busy squalling about new technology, then the less time they have to fret over 100 yr old tech. I wonder how many of them realize how simple a sten gun is? My question is, if a sten gun has 14 parts, is the 3 or 4 parts it takes for the magazine included? What about the stock?

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Wayne
Torn & Frayed

the Sten is a fine example of a bathtub sub gun.
got springs a barrel and some exhaust pipe ? you have a sten
but why do that when the real anti armor anti infantry weapons tech lies in rail guns and coil guns. that is .. if your the imaginative type

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it just needs more voltage

I would like to have one of those 3-D printers experts to make me a copy of Bar Raefael, the beautiful Israeli model --

Two questions:

Would I have to feed her and clothe her?? I am guessing she would rather high-maintenance.

If they manufacture her out of plastic, I am guessing that she won't age much if I keep her out of UV light -- so I will save a bundle on Botox (that I won't have to buy for her), fanny and facelifts, and hair coloring.

Oh, and one last question -- if I am sitting by a nice fire on the beach with her on a romantic spring evening and she accidentally gets too close to the fire, will she melt?? I would hate to have to re-name her
Bar Pudl Plastique.

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Gunner, Sabot Up!

If you have an $8K 3d printer. Those things are also hard to keep functional.

Try a $600,000 3-D printer.

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NRA Pistol/Rifle Inst. RSO

Ya know....the fact that two south Lousiiana lawyers would think of the same thing is kinda disturbing. Or not.
Me-I'd want my second wife-Sandra Bullock

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Forum consigliere

Not my choice in firearms, but I'm in favor of making it as difficult as possible for the govt from disarming citizens.

I'd rather have a homemade gun made from metals using machine tools. There are home hobbyist combo mill/lathes that can make them. It's the computer part that scares people. The plastic barrel and receiver bothers me, my hands, and my eyes.

I think it was Forbes that reported just last week that Staples intended to start selling a 3d printer for somewhere in the $1300 range ....
Its gotten tangible but not quite justifiable as yet.
If they manage to wrestle the price down to somewhere in the $600 - $800 range ... I might be inclined to bite for some of the other uses I have for such machines

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it just needs more voltage

read up on the project a little more closely.
the media conveniently left out the steel barrel liner detail

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it just needs more voltage

CAJ, actually I'm your long-lost little brother, we were separated after birth, I was put in a little basket of roseaux cane down by the Mermentau, and found and raised by a family of nutria -- and the rest, as they say is history.

And, I love having Sandra as a sister- in- law.

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Gunner, Sabot Up!

OK so the gun itself will be undetectable to metal detectors but what about the ammo for it? Isn't that made of brass, copper and lead? Doesn't a metal detector detect it?

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NRA Life member

I've been printing 3D bullets and primers for months now.

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- The Federalist #46 -

We had one similar to the 3D printer in the research facility. Al you had to do was scan anything...we had a laser... and put it into the computer. Today you can download the info over the internet and print it out. With the right binder you can now make a glock in you basement just as good as you can buy but without a serial #. Order a barrel from glock and you are good to go. This will also really open up a market for obsolete parts and designer custom grips. Scotty beam me up.....

Star Trek phasers will be next.

As for plastic girls, my choice is Victoria's Secret model Doutzen Kroes, a Dutchie. But I'd want a brunette ,too, so that'd be Aussie Miranda Kerr.

Both are married, but the 3-D girls get around that issue. The problem is, how do we get Doutzen's modesty and charm and Miranda's wry wit? Can the printers incorporate those qualities, or just the outside?