Posted on 12/23/2012 5:09:08 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
Seems the progs are at it again, not actually accomplishing anything you could call 'progress' re. gun violence while pig-headedly attempting to fix yesterday's problems with solutions that never worked in the first place...
Over the weekend the project’s founder Cody Wilson posted a YouTube clip of the group testing an AR-15 semi-automatic weapon Defense Distributed assembled with a 3D-printed lower receiver, the highly-regulated component that serves as the body of the gun onto which the barrel, stock, magazine and other elements are attached...
And did you scheming Obammunist tools at DHS note the 3-D printed guns are made of plastic? MAYBE it's time you all stop putzing-around, fomenting war with the TEA Party and get to work on a way to deal with the undetectable AR-15 clones
Al Qaeda and Hamas operatives are going to have printed-up by the vanload the minute they waltz over the porous Mexican border you intentionally created.
Prices on 3D printers are dropping fast, but one capable of producing the AR-15 lower receiver used in the test above would run in the $10,000-range... not cheap, but hardly prohibitive, either.
For any who scoff at the fact that at the current state-of-the-art, printed guns tend to disintegrate after a few shots, you know that's going to change as the technology advances- something that never seems to take very long these days.
fwiw, in the 1940s the US Army found plenty value in distributing one-shot, throwaway guns to aid the European resistance behind Nazi lines, more here...
Video/more at Reaganite Republican...
I’ve reloaded enough shotgun shells to know what a pain in the butt that must be
I have seen sintered titanium, used in jewelry. Not very impressive: rough and brittle.
Can an engineer chime in, here? Has this process been improved?
New explosives-—Makes the idea of the letter bomb more real or new ammunition:
Invention: Exploding ink
A very unusual ink-jet printer cartridge, containing explosive ink, has been patented by Qinetiq, the commercial spin-off of the British Ministry of Defence.
The ink is a mixture of very fine aluminium particles, each 1 micrometre in diameter, particles of copper oxide 5 micrometres wide, epoxy varnish and alcohol. The ink is stable in liquid form, making it safe to print onto conventional paper, but forms an explosive fuse once dry.
An engineer can easily sketch out a printable fuse using computer imaging software, modifying the delay in milliseconds by changing the length, thickness and pattern of the line on the paper...
New Scientist
14:00 07 February 2006 by Barry Fox
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8690-invention-exploding-ink.html
And how long do you think that would happen before people began CW2?
Not very I think. Those kinds of restrictions would see Anarchists becoming our best buds. That’s a WHOLE different world you’re talking about and no people on earth would willingly go along with it. In a couple more liberal generations perhaps. But not yet.
Need to renew your license? Turn in your guns first........................................ I sold it at a yard sale, or it was stolen years ago, I just noticed it was gone. Not a problem, I keep it in the trunk of my car, oops, its not there where I left it.
Lets just call these things what they are:
3-D Assault Printers
As an addition, I’d call 50 million plus unemployed, hungry with no future people the largest gurella army the world has ever seen.
The largest well armed G-army. How many cops and military do you believe will try fighting it when it’s made up of their sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, wives and husbands?
How long does the current powerstructure survive as a governing entity in that environment? And how long would it be before China/Russia landed troops of their own?
Don’t forget that many who might hand over their weapons, could after the fact easily burn down the houses of the jack booted thugs who took them away. In other words, make their lives a living hell. You couldn’t pay me enough to be the local gun confiscator.
And, using the same “logic” they apply to gun control, next they will want to ban 3D printers.
This won’t stop them.
Their solution will be 3D printer control and registration.
Exactly.
People REALLY need to study history. This BS always ends in blood and fire. And most of the people who rebelled were not losing nearly what the average American would be.
If I’m wrong, then we are far more pathetic as a people than the MSM makes us out to be. But I’m not wrong. And history has already proven it.
Or, a dramatically improved chemical combustion at a far lower temperature ~
Secondly: The AR15 that was printed fired 6 rounds. that's fantastic. The next one may fire 10 rounds. And after that, 20 rounds. and eventually, a virtually indestructible polymeric weapon will emerge and material costs will decrease. This is the future of everything.
Lastly, should they manage to get this ban through, we will adapt, we will improvise, and we will most certainly overcome. We will do this because we are Americans and that is our nature. This ban will not stop us, it will inspire us and propel us to the next level of weapons development.
$500 Solidoodle 3D printer
http://www.solidoodle.com/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2970084/posts?page=15
3D-Printed Weapons & the Consequences
http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1394&doc_id=255741
An AR-15 lower receiver is 3D printed and used to fire 200 rounds without catastrophic failure.
3D print your own personal electronics
http://www.designnews.com/document.asp?doc_id=255795
If it comes to that, it will be a matter of making every cartridge maximally lethal-it will be necessary to make bullet proof vests absolutely obsolete IOW.
One man and a lathe can do wonders.
Pretty soon the libs run out of things to ban. But it will never get as far as people think. Bad, yes. Very bad? Yes. But eventually people have enough. Whether it’s here or France a couple hundred years back.
And then ‘WE’ run the show when it falls apart. Because ‘we’ are not libs. We know how to build, we know how to survive ‘camping’ without microwaves...all of it.
Simple. Just ban any machine capable of making a gun. Ahem.
From an investor perspective, 3D printing is the next huge technology. The firearm articles just show the incredible potential as this technology evolves for all types of design and manufacturing. Those investing now will reap big returns!
I’ve been drawing in 3D for the last 20 years and can see where you draw up a part once and sell it like an app over and over again for 99 cents. Sounds like a great work-at-home strategy since I’ll get my first Social Security check early next year. My wife has already given me permission to use the first check on a printer.
The plastics are now selling in differing hardness from soft to hard, translucence to opaque and some of the printers are coming with multiple print heads so you can combine the materials such as in a tail light.
Here are some free examples of Stl files
http://www.3dvia.com/search/?search%5Bcurrent_page%5D=17&search%5Bresults_per_page%5D=12&search%5Bsort_order%5D=Rank&search%5Bformat%5D=stl&search%5Bfile_types%5D=1&search%5Bquery%5D=
This 3D printing issue is a non-starter. Its easier, cheaper, and faster to make firearms with readily available machining tools.
Start sorting out how to make smokeless powder, primers, and cases.
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