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it can actually be done quite cheaply now: http://shop.ghostgunner.net/products/ghost-gunner http://shop.ghostgunner.net/products/ghost-gunner

• lmm 11y ago
  You can make the lower receiver with one of those, but you'll still need access to a workshop with a bunch of expensive equipment to turn a lower receiver into something that actually fires bullets.
• hga 11y ago
  Nope, that just finishes an "80%" receiver, to which you then attach various finished parts. Note also that AR-15 pattern rifles don't seriously stress lower receivers in firing, people have cobbled together working ones out of plastic, scrap aluminum, etc. If you want to efficiently make one out of plain metal, you'd want at minimum a milling machine and lathe, and the knowledge of how to use them. A furnace for heat treating would also be handy, and making a good long barrel requires from what I've read more specialized machinery.
  • paulddraper 11y ago
    Right. Nobody (or mostly nobody) makes their whole gun from scratch. The idea is that the gun parts can be obtained with fairly ordinary efforts, just as plastic for a 3D printer can be obtained with fairly ordinary efforts. (Naturally, there is a big cost difference between these two.)