Well if you have 10,000 dollars to spend on this for a crappy guy then why wouldn't you just buy a real gun?
And besides, all this does is print the casing, you still have to assemble it and add in the parts like the firing pin yourself, which you can't print. Its not a snap together toy you know.
Tell that to the surviving members of the victims of mass shootings in the last 20 years. Nice speculations...pity he over looks the point that there are those who WILL use things such as ceramic composites for those firing pins and bullets, and that by his own admission ONE of the test FIRINGS failed. How many didn't, I wonder. This is a bad idea that our right wing Congress has laid on the public.
Now you're just spewing NRA propaganda, because it's not the Democrats who are at fault here. Observe and learn: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-many-gun-control-proposals-have-been-offered-since-2011/ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/04/opinion/thoughts-prayers-nra-funding-senators.html
Because we just established earlier that not all the ghost guns will be "crappy" for what they're designed to do, and terrorists (domestic and foreign) will find ways to foot the bill for the printers and materials....and the GOP just gives the software to them on a silver platter.
Of course it's the democrats fault. All the most violent cities in America are bastions of the democrat party.
The people who allowed the 9/11 bombers, the first trade center bombers, the truck attackers, and the jihadi training camp in NM for child school shooters. Democrats and democrat policies/laws.
So? They don't have a problem obtaining weapons now so what will the difference be? The only thing this may do is take some profit from gun manufacturers.
What makes you think I was talking about a terrorist doing it? I plainly said "I". Terrorists have much easier ways to get guns than making them with a printer.
I'm sorry I'm just not buying the hype. People have always been able to manufacture guns of Their Own like this. The fact that we're just now talking about it shows you how little a problem that truly is.
You can't legally build a gun without having enough metal to set off a detector and this 3D gun qualifies.
"Putting" it on the market? You realize its BEEN on the open market ever since the internet was invented right? You realize you can go RIGHT NOW to your local public library and check out gunsmithing diagrams for modern arms complete with CNC milling instructions? You could pull them off the net RIGHT NOW. You can buy instruction manuals on how to build submachine guns (Luty et alia) in your garage with hand tools. FFS you can CAST OUT OF PLASTIC AR 15 lower receivers (no 3d printer necessary. The mold is made with legos. no ****). People have been able to do this for decades already. Relax.
This post clearly shows your ignorance concerning both guns and 3D printing. As stated several times in this thread, you can build a single shot gun with basic materials from Home Depot for far cheaper and much easier than trying to 3D print one. Also, even with the plans in hand, 3D printing is far more complex than people believe it is. Go to your local library (if they have 3D printers available like some do now) and attempt to 3D print something simple from Thingiverse and then come back to this thread and let us know how easy it is to print a gun. Typical criminals are not going to waste their time 3D printing a single shot weapon. This is nothing more than fear mongering form the left to divert attention from their failed platforms.
Chicken Little runs amok again. One would think that murder and terrorism with the use of firearms was impossible prior to the arrival of the 3D printer. Does anyone remember the "zip gun" of the 50's? Kids would break off the antenna from a car and use one of the sections as a barrel for a .22. Add a wood handle, a nail, and a rubber band to drive the nail and you're a badass.
Federal law allows you to create your own weapons for your own use, provided you are not otherwise prohibited from owning firearms, and the firearm you create is a non-restricted type. It's been happening since the founding of the Republic. It's not a big deal. Guns aren't traceable after they leave a gun store anyway.
Ghost guns and printable guns are too different issues (although related because they are both legal due to federal law allowing one to manufacture your own firearm, provided the firearm type is legal and you are legally allowed to own a gun). Ghost guns are usually 80% complete gun receivers (the legal gun part) that are finished by the end user, and then attached to the rest of the gun that is not legally considered "the gun." They are perfectly legal under current law. For an AR-15, the receiver is the lower part of the gun.
