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US Justice Department settled with Cody Wilson, founder of Defense Distributed who provided downloadable files of 3D printed gun - http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/07/20/this-marks-end-gun-control.html
Proliferation of "metal" 3D printers will only continue like this 1911 as manufacturers may prefer 3D printing over MIM process in the future (which can be of higher strength/quality than MIM gun parts currently used) - https://www.stratasysdirect.com/tec...sintering/3d-printed-1911-pistol-how-its-made
In the near future, we may end up ordering our gun parts online from 3D printed sources. As metal 3D printing becomes more common at lower price, enforcing "gun control" will be very difficult, if not impossible.
"Anyone with access to a metal 3D printer can make guns functionally and aesthetically indistinguishable from any gun that can be bought in a store. Such metal printers are available for less than $2,000.
How the government will stop people from obtaining these printers isn’t exactly obvious. Proposals to require background checks, mandatory serial numbers and even a registration process for printers are easily defeated. Even if printers are registered with the government, what is going to stop gangs from stealing them? And the designs for making your own printer have been available on the Internet for years.
3D printers make the already extremely difficult job of controlling access to guns practically impossible. The government is not going to be able to ban guns, and limits on the size of bullet magazines will be even more laughable than before. Many parts of a gun can be made on very inexpensive, plastic 3D printers or even from simple machine tools.
... It is understandable that governments want to regulate 3D printing, but gutting the First Amendment is too high a cost. This settlement may bring some awareness to the futility of gun control regulations that only disarm the law-abiding."
Proliferation of "metal" 3D printers will only continue like this 1911 as manufacturers may prefer 3D printing over MIM process in the future (which can be of higher strength/quality than MIM gun parts currently used) - https://www.stratasysdirect.com/tec...sintering/3d-printed-1911-pistol-how-its-made
In the near future, we may end up ordering our gun parts online from 3D printed sources. As metal 3D printing becomes more common at lower price, enforcing "gun control" will be very difficult, if not impossible.
"Anyone with access to a metal 3D printer can make guns functionally and aesthetically indistinguishable from any gun that can be bought in a store. Such metal printers are available for less than $2,000.
How the government will stop people from obtaining these printers isn’t exactly obvious. Proposals to require background checks, mandatory serial numbers and even a registration process for printers are easily defeated. Even if printers are registered with the government, what is going to stop gangs from stealing them? And the designs for making your own printer have been available on the Internet for years.
3D printers make the already extremely difficult job of controlling access to guns practically impossible. The government is not going to be able to ban guns, and limits on the size of bullet magazines will be even more laughable than before. Many parts of a gun can be made on very inexpensive, plastic 3D printers or even from simple machine tools.
... It is understandable that governments want to regulate 3D printing, but gutting the First Amendment is too high a cost. This settlement may bring some awareness to the futility of gun control regulations that only disarm the law-abiding."