I bet you also had a copy of the Anarchist Cookbook.
If your only purpose is to fire off a few shots in an area where a person would be subject to a metal detector check, would this not be the perfect weapon?
No, I did not.
And no, I don’t intend to make or acquire a plastic gun.
But as long as people are using the legal system to try to muzzle somebody, I will acquire and pass on the plans on the pure principle of the thing alone.
Like this guy?
That’s pretty accurate, however I was also thinking of the eXistenZ gun.
of all the crazy stuff happening during this era, the printing of guns at home is the worst. the materials and printers will only get better. the plans will be more creative.
this is the huge deal we’ll all look back on and wonder why someone didn’t stop or regulate it.
Maybe I’m missing something, but it’s not like a gun is a sophisticated instrument. Hell, prisoners have made them. Check this one out.
So, does anyone really need any plans for one?
There was a liberal snowflake actress who has a rant piece on cnn.com. Goes off on people using 3D printed guns to kill people, courts, violating protective orders and all that. The acress (who I choose not to name) hot linked to an article from 2013 when someone had the downloaded plans and printed the parts on a $1,300 3D printer. She was boasting they don’t explode after one shot and this one shot 9 times!
Okay so I figured I’d read the linked article and it’s a freaking joke.
48 hours to print all the parts needed (so much for the quick thing) – and in 5 years time it would probably take the same amount of time to print.
So then you read in further and the first shot, the barrel exploded (I guess that doesn’t count as being able to shoot it 9 times without problems). So they had to print up a new barrel.
So then you read in further and in the 9 successful shots they used 2 barrels (8 shots through 1 and the 9th in a second). Wonder why they decided they needed to change???
Reading further, they had to replace METAL pins holding it together several time, and replace the METAL fireing pin several times.
Then the kicker, after each shot, they had to take a hammer and pound part of it back into shape (wonder what would have happened had they tried to shoot with it out of shape.)
But even that is jumping ahead of what you need to do:
First you would need to get a printer. You’ll hear of $100 and $200 printers. I wouldn’t trust one of those to make a gun.
But say you get a sub $1,000 dollar printer (either pre build, or buy the parts and build it yourself – and remember criminals aren’t the sharpest nail in the box). First thing your going to have to do is calibrate it. Even my “prints out of the box” 3D printer has issues. First print you do is something to check calibration for how level the bed is. Then calibration for temp, calibration for bridging, calibration to make sure the stepper motors are doing the right measurements.
Now my printer prints acceptable. Acceptable is not good enough. You’ll need to get it printing perfect.
So next thing you’ll need to do is get the proper plastic Fillament. The most popular (PLA) would explode without exception. Article says they used a certain type of ABS. Well you’d also have to make sure it’s a quality supplier (they vary widely).
The calibration can take from hours to months (depending on the quality you are looking for). Days to print all the parts. Time to assemble it (make sure everything fits just like it should. Fun part of 3D printing is no 2 prints come out exactly alike). Then you’re going to have to do a test fire to see if it explodes on the first shot. have all the necessary replacement parts, and apparently a hammer to pound it back to working order after each shot, and other replacement parts for if you think you’re going to be able to shoot it more than a couple of times.
Here is the article about the gun shooting 9 times without exploding (after the explosion on the first test fire).
And just for fun, here is a collection of stuff I’ve printed on a 3d Printer.
You best mind your Ps and Qs … his next target is dumb liberals.
Is that redundant?
The United States Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 (18 U.S.C. § 922(p)) makes it illegal to manufacture, import, sell, ship, deliver, possess, transfer, or receive any firearm that is not as detectable by walk-through metal detection as a security exemplar containing 3.7 oz (105 g) of steel, or any firearm with major components that do not generate an accurate image before standard airport imaging technology.[1]
It was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on November 10, 1988.[2]
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Meaningless, the designs are available elsewhere than Defense Distributed. The pirate bay for instance.
That’s not actually covered by a power delegated to the federal, as there is none given to restrict which Arms may be possessed or to regulate manufacturing. All present federal gun control laws, at least where the jurisdiction of any State is involved, should not exist.
The entire reason they were blocked from distributing the plans from 2015 till this month was due to the State Department classifying the plans as technical information controlled by ITAR. If the administration or you want’s to argue in court that they can no longer control the export of arms, I say, give it a shot…
sure it does.
You’re right. I don’t know much about plastic guns.
So revenge?
What is the barrel made out of? Ever see a plastic spring? How about the ammunition for it?
No the thing is how can the government tax it.
Plastic, the barrel is made of plastic… Same with all the components of the firearm itself…
They make them out of ink pens too.
