So some guy printed an AR-15 assault rifle with a 3D printer.The video of him shooting it is somewhere on google video.This is great news for lovers of freedom everywhere! What would be the point in bringing in assault weapon bans if people can just print these things in their living room? Great technology IMO , really impressed with the possibilities of these things.
Get ready. It’s now possible to print weapons at home. An amateur gunsmith, operating under the handle of “HaveBlue” (incidentally, “Have Blue” is the codename that was used for the prototype stealth fighter that became the Lockheed F-117), announced recently in online forums that he had successfully printed a serviceable .22 caliber pistol. Despite predictions of disaster, the pistol worked. It successfully fired 200 rounds in testing.
HaveBlue then decided to push the limits of what was possible and print an AR-15 rifle. To do this, he downloaded plans for an AR-15 in the Solidworks file format from a site called CNCGunsmith.com. After some small modifications to the design, he fed about $30 of ABS plastic feedstock into his late-model Stratasys printer. The result was a functional AR-15 rifle. Early testing shows that it works, although it still has some minor feed and extraction problems to be worked out. . .
On July 29 2012 17:41 zalz wrote: This seems fake.
Almost obviously so.
why? have you seen the videos showing what 3d printers can do?
Yes, that is why I am saying that it is fake.
They can barely print a decent drinking cup, and now it is printing an automatic rifle?
We all understand that a gun, pedantic as it has become due to games and movies, is in fact a very advanced piece of technology.
If it is printed entirely out of plastic, how could it possible deal with the recoil? How could it possibly print all the miniature parts of varying metals that compose these rifles.
I know technology is advancing, I know 3D printing will one day be able to do this, but that day hasn't arrived yet.
Oh snap...3D printers really could be the next massive advance in tech on the level of smartphones and whatnot :O
On July 29 2012 16:48 Kojak21 wrote: What does Obama have to do with banning a printer?
Probably has to do with gun control, i.e. anybody with a 3D printer could download plans and print a gun etc.
Also with regard to some of the comments. A 3D printer is, for now, still incapable of printing an entire gun, since it would have to articulate moving parts, not to mention plastic likely isn't strong enough to be used alone in the construction of a gun.
What actually happened was that he printed the lower receiver (component of the gun) and assembled the gun. This, however, counts as the firearm according to the American Gun Control Act.
On July 29 2012 17:41 zalz wrote: This seems fake.
Almost obviously so.
why? have you seen the videos showing what 3d printers can do?
Yes, that is why I am saying that it is fake.
They can barely print a decent drinking cup, and now it is printing an automatic rifle?
We all understand that a gun, pedantic as it has become due to games and movies, is in fact a very advanced piece of technology.
If it is printed entirely out of plastic, how could it possible deal with the recoil? How could it possibly print all the miniature parts of varying metals that compose these rifles.
I know technology is advancing, I know 3D printing will one day be able to do this, but that day hasn't arrived yet.
looking at this, i feel like its possible to make each individual small part, but it would take days to do it. but it would not be able to make anything significantly big. each tiny part would have to be constructed and made.
I'm going to go ahead and say that in America it would be much easier to just acquire a real gun than to build one of questionable quality with a 3D printer. No nation-bashing intended.
They can barely print a decent drinking cup, and now it is printing an automatic rifle?
We all understand that a gun, pedantic as it has become due to games and movies, is in fact a very advanced piece of technology.
If it is printed entirely out of plastic, how could it possible deal with the recoil? How could it possibly print all the miniature parts of varying metals that compose these rifles.
I know technology is advancing, I know 3D printing will one day be able to do this, but that day hasn't arrived yet.
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