“I expect to see 3-D revolvers within a year. This tech is just taking off with the open-source crowd. We’re still at early days. Think Moore’s Law.”
Not the same but I see you’re point. If they could figure out how to embed metal rails like you see done with injection-mold plastic guns receivers (think Glock) you’d have something to sit up and take notice of. Problem is ABS is a poor material for the stresses involved in most semi-auto guns and wouldn’t last.
Interesting the name they gave it though. That was the name of a cheap single shot pistol that the US air dropped all over occupied France during WWII. It was single shoot just like this and probably had the same accuracy. The idea was that you only needed one shot to kill a soldier with a better gun. That has got to make a lot of government types very nervous, won’t be long before this will be very very illegal to own. of course you don;t need to print it up until you feel that you need it so will be tough to contain.
3-D printers are printing with everything from concrete to ceramics to human tissue to sintered metals now.
/johnny