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It isn’t. They’ve confused a 3D printer with a lathe. I’m guessing Reuters is uncritically repeating the police’s story. It’s in both the police and Reuters’ b
by didgeoridoo 6y ago
It isn’t. They’ve confused a 3D printer with a lathe.
I’m guessing Reuters is uncritically repeating the police’s story. It’s in both the police and Reuters’ best interest to make this a sexy modern story about 3D printing, rather than a boring story about raiding a basic machine shop turning out unregistered firearms. Which feels approximately ten thousand times more likely.
- NoImmatureAdHom 6y agoYou can't make gun barrels on a lathe in two minutes either. Unless you started with a gun barrel.
- didgeoridoo 6y agoYou can certainly drill out a very short, non-rifled barrel on a drill lathe in single-digit minutes. Everything in this story is an exaggeration or misunderstanding, so it wouldn’t surprise me to find the “2 minute” figure to be a wild-ass guess too.
- NoImmatureAdHom 6y agoYeah, you can make a hole in some metal. I would argue that doesn't make it a "gun barrel". A barrel will almost always have rifling and some sort of breech locking mechanism. Unless you've got some truly wild CNC setup, you have no chance of both making the hole (even smoothbore) and any sort of locking mechanism.
- icegreentea2 6y agoIf your gun doesn't lock (simple blowback for example), then you can skip the breech locking mechanism. Agreed that I don't think you can meaningfully rifle a barrel in under 2 minutes though.
- aero-glide2 6y agoSo even Reuters makes mistakes? I consider them to be the most unbiased news source.
- NoImmatureAdHom 6y agoSadly, this doesn't seem like a mistake. It seems like they're either negligent or complicit in spreading propaganda.
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