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no story yet where you can print metal's gun?
by bledfeet 13y ago
no story yet where you can print metal's gun?
- ChuckMcM 13y agohttp://mashable.com/2013/11/11/3d-printed-metal-gun/ http://mashable.com/2013/11/11/3d-printed-metal-gun/ There are already metal printing processes which can manufacture firearms. Still expensive though. Its relatively straight forward to build a black powder musket in your garage though.
- jared314 13y agoThat story just never made it to the front page. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6694279 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6694279 (5 days ago)
- VLM 13y agoAt this point in technology its a lot easier to make those using subtractive (traditional) machining rather than additive machining. Ask any gunsmith. You'll get into all manner of weird definition games, like the legal one for print your own is making a lower receiver, so are you cool with buying a COTS barrel and everything else but the lower? Or you want to make that stuff too, well, OK, are you cool with COTS firing pin and other very minor componenets? Or are you cool with buying plain old screws from home depot or do you insist on making those homemade too?