3 ms·
What about 3D printers making guns? ... We're heading for a very interesting future. We're already there. These guys printed a lower receiver (legally conside
by ansible 14y ago
What about 3D printers making guns? ... We're heading for a very interesting future.
We're already there. These guys printed a lower receiver (legally considered to be "the gun") of an AR-15:
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/133514-the-worlds-first-3d-printed-gun http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/133514-the-worlds-first-3...
Now you can't (right now) even with laser sintering produce some of the highest tolerance parts of a gun, such as the barrel. But we're getting there.
- knewter 14y agoproducing a barrel is not even hard with a well set up lathe, is it? I mean, certainly you can outperform muskets easily enough.
- ansible 14y agoYeah, I was just thinking of the scenario where you just download a file, print it, and you have a finished product, with some assembly. With 3-D printers, this can currently be done with only very simple products. But the capabilities are expanding...