3D-Printed Rifle Successfully Fires 14 Rounds

It's coming.

Awesome. Stick that in your pipe and smoke gun control supporters.

I'm all for gun rights. I just don't see how this is a good thing.

The gun laws now are entirely too strick but you have to have some sort of checks and balances. Lets not fool ourselves.


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I'm all for gun rights. I just don't see how this is a good thing.

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It's certainly going to enable Darwin's theory of natural selelction to have a wide testing ground...

I think its interesting in that it effectively takes money out of the gun industry and also the gun lobby. I'd have to imagine that all of the major gun manufacturers are against this unless they think there will be money to be made licensing designs or software somewhat like McAfee or Norton Antivirus on your pc.

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I think its interesting in that it effectively takes money out of the gun industry and also the gun lobby. I'd have to imagine that all of the major gun manufacturers are against this unless they think there will be money to be made licensing designs or software somewhat like McAfee or Norton Antivirus on your pc.

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This is why I think it is a good thing. Making guns more affordable and available is a positive thing. Also making it harder for the government to track a gun is a good thing.

The way I see it is the criminals already get guns illegally in spite of the laws prohibiting them from doing so.

This is one of those weird times when the gun industry and the gun control lobby may have some common ground although the gun industry likely won't come right out and say they think it is a bad thing.

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Until these printed guns become capable of anything more than a single shot, they will never be a threat to modern sporting arms.

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I agree, but as quickly as technology progresses and assuming no intervention happens how long before a functional semi-auto appears? A year, maybe less?

We both know someone is actively working on making it happen...

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I agree, but as quickly as technology progresses and assuming no intervention happens how long before a functional semi-auto appears? A year, maybe less?

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If you haven't been following defense distributed they have already produced a functional lower receiver and standard cap mags. They also produced a fully printable gun that used a nail as a firing pin. Freaked the government out something aweful a couple months back.

Imagine this you have a box in your house capable of producing any non organic material good that you need. Instead of driving to Home Depot you go online and download a file. This is the biggest frick you to the government that you can ever have. In a couple decades its going to completely revolutionize how goods are produced and consumed.

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Imagine this you have a box in your house capable of producing any non organic material good that you need. Instead of driving to Home Depot you go online and download a file. This is the biggest frick you to the government that you can ever have. In a couple decades its going to completely revolutionize how goods are produced and consumed.

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The government is probably less worried about you printing goods as much as finding a way to tax you on the items you make.

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yeah, I'm gonna pass on this one.
Modern firearms made in a factory under industrial conditions going through quality checks still occasionally have catastrophic failures.

Not gonna trust a gun printed on a KMart bought Lexmark 3-D printer make in some dude's basement.

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If you have guns made by a gun manufacturer then you don't really need and probably won't want a 3D printed gun. This is more for folks that either can't afford a traditional gun or in the event that guns are banned from legal civilian purchase.

I got into this because my friend wanted to make 3D models of his pulling lures, with the ability to pull the prototype, and see how it runs…the gun and magazine prints are just a awsome by-product.