View Full Version : Gives new meaning to the term "gun printing"
marky
09-11-2012, 09:01 AM
Man Creates Homemade Gun With 3D Printer
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/topguns/man-creates-homemade-gun-3d-printer
I love the flag in this video. No agenda there!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqzJlBcCsow
MLESa7990
09-11-2012, 09:05 AM
Find this very hard to believe
tv_racin_fan
09-11-2012, 09:56 AM
Find this very hard to believe
What is hard to believe? A polymer lower for an AR? Or that you could program one of those "3d printers" to print a lower?
I don't find it hard to believe at all. But then a firearm is not all that hard to make.
marky
09-11-2012, 10:49 AM
I've read of guys being able to fire off a few rounds using a modified Airsoft lower!
TheTman
09-11-2012, 11:00 AM
I have an article about a car that had all it's parts printed on a 3D printer and it was drivable, and ran ok. 3D printing is a wld new technology jusy now taking off. I've invested in a few companies working to perfect the technology. One of them hopes to use some type of human cells to print replacement organs (hearts, livers, kidneys, etc) for use in transplants, they are working to add the transplantee's DNA into the tissue so they won't have rejection issues. Right now the technology is in it's infancy, and they expect great things to come of it. I invested in some stocks, hoping to get into the next Apple or Microsoft while the stock is still affordable.
MLESa7990
09-11-2012, 12:39 PM
What is hard to believe? A polymer lower for an AR? Or that you could program one of those "3d printers" to print a lower?
I don't find it hard to believe at all. But then a firearm is not all that hard to make.
Guess I either read into the article too much or not enough. I got the impression that he suppository made an entire rifle with the thing. But just the low is believable.
jlottmc
09-11-2012, 01:29 PM
Don't forget that there are what are basically desktop CNC machines and mills out there as well, both controlled with a PC. It would not be hard for a person with little machine working know how to make a gun in their garage.
Scoundrel
09-11-2012, 01:37 PM
Guess I either read into the article too much or not enough. I got the impression that he suppository made an entire rifle with the thing. But just the low is believable.
It would be possible, using the right materials, to make an entire rifle.
But, you'd have to make each part separately, not as a single printing job, sand them all down, fit them together. Lots of trial and error, and it would probably blow itself apart on the first shot. But eventually, this tech will work.
NASA is experimenting with 3D printing replacement parts so that they can take a printer and some material instead of a crapload of prefab replacement parts.
Star Trek Replicator, anyone?
marky
09-11-2012, 03:36 PM
I thought he made the white one but he said “it was extremely large and ungainly" so I guess the black one is the final product?
http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h20/marcopolo2_2006/3d-printed-ar-15-gun-lower-3.jpg
"The existing design was intended to be made out of solid metal, so the gun maker altered it a bit by strengthening some of the lug holes and adding a trigger guard."
http://www.gizmag.com/first-3d-printed-firearm/23473/
tv_racin_fan
09-11-2012, 07:56 PM
Guess I either read into the article too much or not enough. I got the impression that he suppository made an entire rifle with the thing. But just the low is believable.
Actually you read into it exactly what they wanted you to. THEY being anti gun they want you to think there is something wrong with a person having the ability to do such.
Fact is a firearm is very simple to make, a couple of levers and some springs makes a lock with a plate to hold it and a pan to hold a bit of powder. A tube makes a barrel. Threads on the inside of the tube at one end then a block of steel machined and threaded on the outside with an L bracket makes a breech plug. Drilled hole thru one part of that breech plug into a hollow on the inner part. A fitting on the end of one of those levers on the lock to hold a stone, some wood and screws to hold it together in the correct orientation and voila you have a working flintlock smoothbore.
FatMatt
09-11-2012, 08:31 PM
The sheeple are terrified! I think it's great. Just imagine in 5-10 years what the advanced technology of 3d printing will be like. Awesome new technology with unlimited bounds and restrictions.
AJBert
09-11-2012, 09:29 PM
Guess I either read into the article too much or not enough. I got the impression that he suppository an entire rifle with the thing. But just the low is believable.
Spell check really screws up sometimes!
marky
09-11-2012, 10:03 PM
That sounds painful!
MLESa7990
09-12-2012, 08:15 AM
Spell check really screws up sometimes!
haha dang, not bad:59:
Planedude
09-12-2012, 02:05 PM
Having worked with objects "printed" out with that system during the F-35 development, well I'll just say no pistol round is low pressure enough to not blow their "gun" to kingdom come. That is a super cool tech-toy, but what comes out is just a "model" like we built from the five and dime store as kids. I built the old Pyro brand gun kits back in the day, but I would'nt put a live 45 long colt round into my old kit-built Peacemaker...
Is kind of like the Star Trek "replicators" though.:rolleyes: Model guns are toys...
Scoundrel
09-12-2012, 03:18 PM
As with all new tech, first comes the idea, then the proof of concept, then the first few runs of crappy stuff using crappy materials, and eventually it gets awesome.
Look at the first airplane flown by the Wright brothers, and then look at the F-14 Tomcat. One day we will be able to print full functional automatic rifles. But not today.
Bawanna
09-12-2012, 03:31 PM
Anyone but me ever wonder how cool it would be to somehow adjust the time machine and show the Wright Brothers some of the cool stuff that flies today. The Blackbird, or a 787.
Can you imagine their jaws dropping watching something like that take off without a barn to start from.
Mind boggling to me.
Same with John Moses although I don't think there's much we have now that he didn't think up. He might not of built it but he probably could have with just the seed of an idea. That was one wicked smart cookie that one.
I believe he might have been even smarter than GB. A close thing but he was smart.
ptoemmes
09-13-2012, 07:33 AM
Well now this will date you - or me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsrLHP26zvk
Who is that good looking young man?
Planedude
09-13-2012, 11:06 AM
Plastics, yep I remember that one. I have had folks aruge with me about composites being the future of any number of things (guns, cars, houses ect.) and they love to point out the composite 10/22 berrels you can now buy. I usally have to point out that the bullet travels down a stainless steel liner that contains the rifling...
Alot of matirials have advanced in my life, that does not make them the practical solution for most problems. Advance stuff costs alot $$$...
I'm with you Bawanna, lets go get Orville and Wilbur and show them what we can do now. I'd show them the F22, The best show was at Edwards when the Raptor come trolling down the runway at about 200ft and 250mph. Suddenly he nails AB and using the elevators and the moving nozzles flips that giant aircraft into a tail stand and accelerates thru Mach 1 going stright up. All that power and stealth too, when the Raptors come to play everybody else puts their toys away... or dies. I'm not sure the Wrights could have even imagined...
jlottmc
09-15-2012, 04:33 PM
Plastics, yep I remember that one. I have had folks aruge with me about composites being the future of any number of things (guns, cars, houses ect.) and they love to point out the composite 10/22 berrels you can now buy. I usally have to point out that the bullet travels down a stainless steel liner that contains the rifling...
Alot of matirials have advanced in my life, that does not make them the practical solution for most problems. Advance stuff costs alot $$$...
I'm with you Bawanna, lets go get Orville and Wilbur and show them what we can do now. I'd show them the F22, The best show was at Edwards when the Raptor come trolling down the runway at about 200ft and 250mph. Suddenly he nails AB and using the elevators and the moving nozzles flips that giant aircraft into a tail stand and accelerates thru Mach 1 going stright up. All that power and stealth too, when the Raptors come to play everybody else puts their toys away... or dies. I'm not sure the Wrights could have even imagined...
I was stationed at Cherry Point when they were doing the T&E on those. I remember tracking the new plane on base (F35) and seeing it over by the PX and from about 500ft off the deck doing the same thing. That is one of those moments that loses something in translation, but yes it is impressive. Very impressive.
jocko
09-15-2012, 05:13 PM
anyome remember the winchester Model 59 sh!tgun called theWin-lite.It has a paperthin metal barrel then wrapped wtih miles of fiber glass. Gun waslighter than air,Thebarrel was alittle bubleious,but blued like steel. The gun did not sell well at allbut I think this gun dates back in the early 60's. I sold one to my neighbor across the street from our business.
marky
09-15-2012, 10:02 PM
Remington Nylon 66, introduced in 1959. One of the best .22s ever made.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remington_Nylon_66
.221 Remington Fireball pistol, 1963. Very cool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remington_XP-100
Scoundrel
10-03-2012, 11:43 AM
Interesting development: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19813382
Longitude Zero
10-03-2012, 11:54 AM
My son is an architectural/structural engineering graduate. The company he works for uses 3D printers all the times. The technology is not exactly new but some of it is cutting edge.
Making a usable weapon with a printer looks good in theory but in practice it is a long way from every being much of a credible threat.
Scoundrel
10-03-2012, 12:12 PM
Yep. This printer company was just being all shy about their public image. You'd think they'd have embraced the publicity.
jeepster09
10-03-2012, 04:44 PM
It seems more like the anti gun sheeple trying to create hysteria like when the Glock's came out, how "plastic" guns would be going through all the metal detectors....:eek:
Planedude
10-03-2012, 08:29 PM
It seems more like the anti gun sheeple trying to create hysteria like when the Glock's came out, how "plastic" guns would be going through all the metal detectors....:eek:
I remember that, I thought "wow a plastic gun". Then I saw one at the LGS and I thought "Wow, big steel slide, metal in the rest of the gun, Anyone missing this in an x-ray machine is named Charles... Ray Charles".
I guess the Brit government getting hyped up on this silly much-ado-about-nuthin should not come as a surprise. Someday the geeks may be closer, but right now all the technology can do is make a kind of ugly toy gun.
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