Print your own gun

davet82 · 07-05-2013 12:26PM #1

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22421185

The world's first gun made with 3D printer technology has been successfully fired in the US.

The controversial group which created the firearm, Defense Distributed, plans to make the blueprints available online.

The group has spent a year trying to create the firearm, which was successfully tested on Saturday at a firing range south of Austin, Texas.

Anti-gun campaigners have criticised the project.

Europe's law enforcement agency said it was monitoring developments

Just what the world needed.

Duff · 07-05-2013 12:28PM

Could you 3D print a vagina?

Aced_Up · 07-05-2013 12:29PM

This was done before the BBC got a hold of the news.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DconsfGsXyA

gumbo1 · 07-05-2013 12:30PM

Funny how an ear, with all the electronics needed to make it function was done this weekend also but that's not as widely reported!! Just sayin!!

SEPT 23 1989 · 07-05-2013 12:30PM

I wonder how far the big corporations have gone with this technology already?

mathie · 07-05-2013 12:33PM

You wouldn't print download a car.

Wacker The Attacker · 07-05-2013 12:46PM

Technology peaked (pardon the pun) with the invention of online porn.

Dancor · 07-05-2013 12:46PM

I seen this on CSI NY the other night.

longhalloween · 07-05-2013 12:48PM

Dancor wrote: »

I seen this on CSI NY the other night.

Hackaday did a piece on why this is no big deal.

http://hackaday.com/2013/05/06/the-first-3d-printed-gun-has-been-fired-and-i-dont-care/

Wacker The Attacker · 07-05-2013 12:51PM

Dancor wrote: »

I seen this on CSI NY the other night.

Gil is still on top of his sh1t I see

Duggy747 · 07-05-2013 12:52PM

Can it print a printer that can print prints?

Fighting Irish · 07-05-2013 12:57PM

can you 3d print weed?

dodderangler · 07-05-2013 12:59PM

And he's giving out the blueprints
Are Americans just complete idiots?

jimthemental · 07-05-2013 01:03PM

I think this guy is vile. Anyone who even remotely agrees with that jackass Alex Jones is not responsible enough to be let near a steering wheel, let alone a gun.

Tazz T · 07-05-2013 01:03PM

I know this should be in bargain requests, but does anyone know where you can get cheap ink for one of these?

littleredspot · 07-05-2013 01:04PM

Duggy747 wrote: »

Can it print a printer that can print prints?

I've seen a 3d printer print itself if that's what you mean? The machines are taking over...

Peregrine · 07-05-2013 01:06PM

I weep for America sometimes..

H3llR4iser · 07-05-2013 01:10PM

I'll just drop it randomly, but I have a feeling the f~@king morons obsessed with making guns out of anything will manage to get 3D printers banned; It's not too much of an unlikely scenario: a legislative knee jerk reaction under the pressure of the media and the manufacturing industry.

Hopefully, I'm wrong...

Birneybau · 07-05-2013 01:12PM

Duggy747 wrote: »

Can it print a printer that can print prints?

How many printers could a printing printer print if a printing printer could print prints?

garv123 · 07-05-2013 01:13PM

davet82 wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22421185

Just what the world needed.

un-proofed, un-tested guns.. Yeah it wont be long before someone firing them is the one killed or seriously injured when it blows up in their face.

If you had a cnc you could make one too and 3d printing is just the opposite of it..

Gosub · 07-05-2013 01:16PM

garv123 wrote: »

un-proofed, un-tested guns.. Yeah it wont be long before someone firing them is the one killed or seriously injured when it blows up in their face.

If you had a cnc you could make one too and 3d printing is just the opposite of it..

Darwinism in action

07-05-2013 01:16PM

mathie wrote: »

You wouldn't print download a car.

Already being done: http://blog.sculpteo.com/2012/04/04/3d-printing-for-the-car-industry-the-audi-example/

07-05-2013 01:20PM

It's not a big deal to be honest. Assuming you have access to ammunition then making a crude zip gun is trivial. People do it in prisons and third-world countries all the time.

garv123 · 07-05-2013 01:26PM

Can they print the rifling in a barrel?

yoyo · 07-05-2013 01:33PM

Good luck to them trying to print gunpowder :P or even metal bullets :pac: .

Nick

Duggy747 · 07-05-2013 01:35PM

Birneybau wrote: »

How many printers could a printing printer print if a printing printer could print prints?

*drools*

ScumLord · 07-05-2013 01:41PM

Pretty amazing engineering feat. I don't know how effective a gun like this would be. It looks like the kind of thing you make and shoot for the fun but you'd never expect the gun to be all that functional if it's made from ABS plastic.

gobnaitolunacy · 07-05-2013 01:55PM

dodderangler wrote: »

And he's giving out the blueprints
Are Americans just complete idiots?

Is that a rhetorical question?

BASHIR · 07-05-2013 02:26PM

garv123 wrote: »

Can they print the rifling in a barrel?

If you can draw it on a computer you can print it!

Anyone · 07-05-2013 02:31PM

BASHIR wrote: »

If you can draw it on a computer you can print it!

Think I'll print off the "Describe your first sexual experience with MS paint" thread.

garv123 · 07-05-2013 02:32PM

BASHIR wrote: »

If you can draw it on a computer you can print it!

Id like to see how plastic could handle a metal bullet travelling over 3000 fps

Print your own gun

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