A better question might be how can the NRA hating MSDNC NINO (News In Name ONly) so called free press profit from bashing the NRA who to date doesn’t have a dog in the fight? Go ahead and google (nra 3d guns). The only thing you’ll find is the yipping commie newsers filing gaseous stories. (With copius ads attached in their imperious pages.)
I’m happy to answer. I think the Obama Administration’s ability to respond to the great recession, the worst economy since the Great Depression, was a great accomplishment. “Swamp” policies reduced unemployment, made massive gains in the market and saved the economy.
And they will be able to produce even more guns now that the Trump administration has opened the door for anyone to manufacture their own… Heck, we might even see some of their products here in the US… Now that Defense Distributed is working on converting their plans for use with $1,200 CNC milling machines, they won’t even be plastic anymore…
Trump didn’t open that door. Obama did, if you want to get technical about it. Yet another burning bag of offal left on Trump’s doorstep by the previous regime.
Seen it 5000 times. A dem admin leaves little booby traps and burning sacks of poop for the incoming republican admin. Then they set back and roar hilarity…point fangers of blame for messes they made. It has always been thus and thus shall it ever be.
Read my DEFINITIVE explanation and reply above. Then come back and apowogize and say you are sorry.
Well there’s really no way to stop the publication of these plans without violating the first ammendment. However, the trademarks of companies that do this don’t have to be enforced or granted. Patents can be made pretty hard to come by as well.
That’s complete BS, he absolutely opened the door… The article you cite from 2013 was before the Obama administration shut down Defense Distributed for violating ITAR. The Trump administration tossed that aside last month…
3D Printing is not an really economical way to make goods compared to molding or forming technologies. It’s great for prototyping or getting artsy. It can even be used, with proper plastic selection, in lost wax casting. If it’s a limited run dealing in plastic then printing (or with softer metals with cheap CNC) is for you.
If one of the benefits of plastic guns via 3d printing technology isn’t that they can be mass produced, really what reason would a person want a 3d printed plastic gun?
The same sorts of reasons people make planetary gears and models of engines that have moving parts with 3D printers.
You seem rather impressed by the technology but are you aware of its difficulties? For plastic printers a huge one for manufacturing is that accuracy in the z-axis is usually much inferior to that in the x or y. This can be overcome at cost, and is with very expensive green sand or sintered powder metal printers. Even those can be slow. Plastic 3D printing is neat, and it has its uses, but it is not up to mass production. Certainly not with home units.
Inexpensive CNC is far better, though again often limited by the materials that can be worked with any speed (for consideration, high quality gray iron can with proper bit selection and slow material removal be milled with low cost CNC … but you’ll need to invest in a Sherline or equivalent motor that can run slowly to do so, as common router set ups tend to be entirely unsatisfactory, running too fast).
Except Bush put in most of the policy before leaving. And the swamp caused the crash in the first place, so… And if the economy was so great under Obama, Hillary would have won…
I bet you love those 30 years of stagnant wages too…
Or finding out they were wrong about WMD’s…
Or just missing the 9/11 hijackers in the first place even though they had reports on them.