barnbwt
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C'mon guys, let's not get distracted by "possession politics" "rolleyes". 3D RP is the topic at hand. But, while we're here...
TCB
Have you seen the crap turned in at buy-backs? Old Iver Johnson's and the like that haven't worked for at least 50 years? Rusted into bricks? An RP gun (or even factory made, if that makes you feel better) of low quality would be far cheaper than anything designed for reliably delivering hundreds of thousands of rounds.I hope you know even the cheapest pistol on the market would be more reliable and a better self defense tool
No one's tried to make an all-RP firearm of any sort, or any glock-clone that I'm aware of. The AR (a fairly high-end locking breach firearm, in comparison to a blowback operated pistol) is just the idea being played with by DD at the moment. No reason you couldn't print a Glock frame or even a Liberator pistol--it just hasn't been tried yet. In case anyone reading this doesn't know, any design would need lots of metallic reinforcement, so the "undetectable" line doesn't apply.If you were to simply receive a lower receiver, free of charge, could you honestly say you could build a cheaper AR15 than buying a NIB or used glock at the gun store?
And there's scarcely little we law-abiding folks can do about it, so why bother fretting the inevitable misuse instead of simply defending ourselves against it? If it makes you feel better, drug cartels already have industrial-scale manufacturing operations for their dope, fleets of armored technical vehicles, and even friggin submarines. I'm certain they are busy converting (illegally ) smuggled semi-auto rifles into machine guns (again, illegally) with their own paid machinists, and wouldn't find low-quality low power starvation guns all that interesting.With great leaps in technology, come the possibilities for both good and evil.
Absoletely. It is the Gutenberg Printing Press of parts manufacture. We weathered the evils brought about the printing press (namely, every evil ideology ever promulgated through script and every war propagandized), we can surely withstand a slightly less effective class of defensive/offensive implement being available to the public.What I wanted to say was, this doesn't require NEARLY the programming skills or resources to use a CNC machine. This 3D printer is cheap and portable enough to be used by anyone with rudimentary knowledge of CAD software, so the comparison is not analogous.
And the last domino falls like a house of cards. Checkmate. (couldn't resist)Sorry for sticking a finger in your pie, but every coin has two sides.
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