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This could be what it takes to get effective gun printing going. As soon as I can print effective guns, I will.

• DanBC 13y ago
  Why? Why not iust buy guns? Or buy gun parts and make them? What is it about printing that's appealing?
  • stefan_kendall3 13y ago
    Guns are extremely expensive, and I own many. I have many friends who wish they could own guns but cannot afford them, and thus live alone without a proper means of self defense. I don't let anyone fire anything I own without an intro safety course and firing practice with a laser bullet, so I don't intend to throw free guns into crowds, but I do know that there is a large group of responsible people who go unarmed for the sole reason that the price of guns is very, very high. At $500/pop, I can't afford to be charitable. At $50-100, these become birthday gifts.
  • stefan_kendall3 13y ago
    As another point of reference, I bought many "high capacity magazines" in 2010 for range practice. In 2012 I sold all of them for 4x what I bought them for on gunbroker because of the gun ban scare. The economics behind gun parts is wacky, and home production would be a radical shift in technology to finally send the cost downward. Of course gun manufacturers would lobby against any home printing. How could they sell $2400 rifles when a decent rifle would only cost a tenth of that to build at home?