So?What is official NRA position on 3d printed guns?
3d printers are improving rapidly and they even 3d metal printers now.
If you can print your own gun you might not buy it from a manufacturer.
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So?What is official NRA position on 3d printed guns?
3d printers are improving rapidly and they even 3d metal printers now.
If you can print your own gun you might not buy it from a manufacturer.
So it could hurt manufacturers...
CBS was running a story on how anyone can just print their own AR15 rifle just this morning. Last I checked you can't print molten alloyed aluminum or chrome moly steel. But I guess you really can, it was on the news...
I mean you can though. Remember the printed polymer receiver is the firearm (though not necessarily rifle). The aluminum and steel parts are simply accessories.
So "anyone" can go out and download and "print" off the receiver and then build their finished rifle or pistol. Which, is as it should be.
The implication in some of the articles I read were that you could print the whole thing. Which is false.
If you want, you can build one out of wood:
http://www.weaponeer.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8035&PN=1&TPN=1
Sheet metal:
https://www.guns.com/2012/12/17/sheet-metal-ar-15-lower-set/
Weld one together from a pre-cut sheet kit:
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/06/02/weldable-ar15-flat-spot/
Search "sheet metal AR15 receiver" and you'll find lots of patterns/guides/drawings etc to make an AR15 lower.
And that's if I want to maintain "full" functionality of the AR.
If I just needed a way of taking a couple shots so I could "get" a fully functional gun, then things like the WW2 Liberator can be made easy enough.
The real point though, is that with 300+ MILLION firearms in private hands, mills and lathes and CAD drawings available, there is no "disarming".
That's why there is such hand-wringing by the anti-gunners (population controllers and their useful idiots). For anything resembling an unarmed populace, they have to turn the entire population that doesn't own guns against those who do. And convince as many FUDDs as possible.
I do agree on all your points, especially about them not disarming the public but I think it’s more about the principal chipping away at freedoms.
Cody Wilson states it far better than I can in just about any of the videos you’ll see on YouTube.
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Hobbes, that is in no way feasible for anyone's garage. Not even close.This from last year.
Rapid progress on metal printing.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/3d-printing-doubles-strength-stainless-steel
I hope prices come down like they have with the plastic composite printers.
Right now they start at about 5K.
The metal printers use a laser scintillation process to melt tiny beads of metal.
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