Posted on 02/09/2013 1:55:41 PM PST by marktwain
The Cuomo (30 round AR-15 magazine) is said to have operated for 342 rounds, two thirds of them full auto. This is a complete redesign over the last prototype.
The video of the test and even the article by wired.com have been reported blocked by various sites.
The design is not available at the site that Defense Distributed has set up for "The Island of Misfit Objects" or DEFCAD .
The design is expected to be made available to the public in a few days.
As reported earlier, the group is also working on a 40 round magazine for firearms that use AK type magazines.
Link to video
Link to wired.com article
Link to DEFCAD
Dean Weingarten
Do a google search on your average high capacity office Xerox color copier and see why companies prefer to rent them rather than buy them.......
As for a copier that can replicate firearms parts or ammunition? Hell, there ain't a citizen around that will be able to afford the cost of the copier stuff let alone the copier itself.............
This is such a stupid non-story.........
Of course, everyone can afford color inkjet printers for low volume production.
But you are correct, this is a non-story, like that horseless carriage thing. It's just a fad, and can never come down in price where average citizen can own them. Besides, who can afford to pay a guy to walk in front waving a red flag?
/johnny
I am reminded of The Weapons Shops of Ishar by A.E. van Vogt. It was an influential sci-fi read for me in my teens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weapon_Shops_of_Isher
Know how to boil a frog?
A little at a time.
Those who are pushing (like these youngsters are with the printed mags) may well push the grabbers to try to grab everything.
When you drop a frog into boiling water, he jumps out.
Same thing here: the more extreme the grabbers get, the more people who will come down off the fence and start pushing back.
I’m considering drawing up plans and instructions on how to make a handgun from steel you find in a junkyard.
***You know dam well “they” will shut this down.***
Then we will do just like the Viet Cong in the jungles of
Vietnam. Using a piece of sheet metal and a pair of tin snips they turned out many a magazine for captured m-16s.
Zip gun - old school.
I’m going for above and beyond old school.
It’s easy enough to make a semi-auto with a mag capacity of 8 or more rounds that could be made at home with limited tools (think along the lines of what the muzzies have in Peshawar or the illegal gun makers in the Philippines), with instruction on how to us a drill, hacksaw and file... there’s no way that guns can effectively banned.
There are tons of Makarov and 1911 clones out there, made with little more than a set of hand files, drills or drill press, polishing cloth and a grinder.
They hate anything that empowers the individual: the constitution, the second amendment, the car, homeschooling, 3d printers. How long until they try to ban them all?
>>This is genius plans, the ability to make an object unbannable because it is too readily available is the perfect answer to the gun grabbers and statists.
Or it supplies them with the motivation to make the bans even more heinous. These stories scare the hoplophobic sheeple into demanding even stronger action to keep “those guns” out of the hands of citizens.
If these geniuses were our friends, they’d be designing the Liberator pistol and carbine for the 21st century. Something that can be cranked out by the hundreds and distributed to the oppressed masses so they can go out and get all the real AR15 mags, ammo, and rifles that they need.
If they were real smart, they’d be designing a 3D printed modern flintlock with a fully enclosed pan for the days when ammmo and primers are banned, or one that uses a “government-approved” 22 LR as the primer in a black powder weapon if they choose to ban all centerfire ammo but leave us the “right” to do target practice and small game hunting.
And they would be keeping their mouths shut about their ability to make throw-away mags.
- - - - — -— -— -— - - - - — — — —
Anyone can make a zip gun, just go to YouTube and check out one of a few hundred. For approximately $8 you can have a gun to do the Liberator activity. — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxHVDtD2S5U
What this is, the scary black rifle lower and magazine stops any real ban from ever happening. Quietly everyone will go into the basement then 5 minutes later build one.
If they try to ban, the revolution begins. I don’t care about the idiot sheeple that call for bans, I don’t follow violations of the 2nd amendment, and our local Sheriff has already confirmed, he isn’t going to seize guns. (He values his life! Folks in Texas take guns kinda serious.)
As for the other weapons, they are already in the design phase of a full gun. They will get there quite soon.
The Vietnamese had a history of over 30 years of struggle against various combatants and one might say they grew up with war and the basic instinct of survival.
Can you say the same thing about the citizens of this country? Or yourself?
I doubt it.......
In fact, a few days ago there was a thread here about the first New Yorker, a military vet, to get arrested for simplying having high capacity magazines in the trunk of his car.
I didn't hear you or any other chest thumpers filled with bravado, calling for action. What happened, did your job, your mortgage payment and your kid's college education get in the way? Or were you tied up that weekend with your kid's hockey tournament?
Sorry my brother but there isn't going to be any revolution so long as you and your buddies have that payment on your Chevy Silverado or the upcoming NCAA basketball tournament to think about........
No printer needed. The designs have been available for quite some time and the materials are as close as your hardware store.
One full auto design was even built and tested by a properly licensed individual (a manufacturer of dealer samples) here in the U.S. and was found to be functional and safe. Of course most of the designs are illegal for the average citizen to build since they are full auto and carry some rather stiff penalties for violations. However, there is one semi auto design which is perfectly legal for individuals to build for their own use in most States and under current Federal law. The rest of the information should be considered purely for academic and/or educational purposes.
***I didn’t hear you or any other chest thumpers filled with bravado, calling for action.****
Strange, I don’t remember thumping my chest calling for action. I’ve renewed my voting membership to the NRA and have a pair of tin snips for my blacksmith work. magazines are not that hard to make.
Let the NRA do their job first.
Did they somehow start off with 30 years experience, or did they start with the first battle on the first day of the struggle?
I don't have car payment, a house payment or a television. Not everyone lives that urban life.
/johnny
Dave,
my point is,
lower receiver is a FFL issue,
other parts are mail order.
Perhaps I'm looking at cost a little differently, but I spend more on ammo in a year than many of these 3D printers cost. current(?) 3D printers with prices It's a new technology, so prices are likely to come down substantially. It may be a non-story this year, but in a couple of years? I think and hope this will take some of the air out of the gun-grabber movement. Barrels and receivers may be hard, for now, but the rest of the parts? You can buy springs anywhere or make them, and most parts don't have to be stronger than a good plastic.
Yes, true.
With a 80% lower, everything is mail order.
aside from the price, companies usually prefer to rent/lease things because it can be expense'd rather than listed as a capital outlay, at least that's why we do it...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.