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This Is The World's First Entirely 3D-Printed Gun (Photos)
Forbes ^
| 5/03/2013 @ 7:00AM
| Andy Greenberg
Posted on 05/03/2013 12:17:28 PM PDT by null and void
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
I just wish they could print .22 Long rifle rounds! I don't think we will see that happen but there are propellants that can be manufactured from household chemicals. You won't get the velocity of powder but you will get enough to be deadly at close range. If the propellant is stored as part of the weapon, it could be metered on an as-needed basis. I think we are going to see a lot of innovation in the production of printed weapons, including the ammo.
To: mylife
Those "Liberators" were made next door in Anderson, IN, along with this bad boy
The Liberators were provided to French Resistance fighters. "Never been fired, only dropped once"?
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posted on
05/03/2013 12:39:12 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
To: null and void
Congressman Steve Israel issued a press release Friday responding to this story: Security checkpoints, background checks, and gun regulations will do little good if criminals can print plastic firearms at home and bring those firearms through metal detectors with no one the wiser, his statement reads. When I started talking about the issue of plastic firearms months ago, I was told the idea of a plastic gun is science-fiction. Now that this technology is proven, we need to act now to extend the ban [on] plastic firearms. The gun may be "undetectable," but the bullets won't be, numbnuts.
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posted on
05/03/2013 12:39:40 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam is a religion of peace, and Moslems reserve the right to detonate anyone who says otherwise.)
To: null and void
Is that a broken trigger?
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posted on
05/03/2013 12:41:05 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam is a religion of peace, and Moslems reserve the right to detonate anyone who says otherwise.)
To: trubolotta
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posted on
05/03/2013 12:41:52 PM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: fuzzylogic
How long before somebody gets through airport security with one? ...and uses it? Good thing they don't make plastic cartridges.
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posted on
05/03/2013 12:42:37 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam is a religion of peace, and Moslems reserve the right to detonate anyone who says otherwise.)
To: tumblindice
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posted on
05/03/2013 12:42:50 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Opinions $1, Half Baked Ideas 50c)
To: null and void
Wouldn’t the cartridges set off a metal detector? Without cartridges, how serious of a threat is this thing...
To: tumblindice
Very few exist.
The Sterling however, was built like a tank and served for over 60 years.
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posted on
05/03/2013 12:47:40 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Opinions $1, Half Baked Ideas 50c)
To: ken5050
That will happen if this catches on, without-one-single-solitary doubt. How do you like this story yesterday in the NY Post...Store owner fined $60,000 that’s sixty THOUSAND dollars for selling a 3 inch lighter that looks like a gun.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/smoking_gun_nets_fine_mULOkpw09uyrCdvzFwsFqL
Even though it’s the despotic state of New York city, it shows besides banning, liberals will also try to wipe people out financially if they do not agree with something. This is a war!
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posted on
05/03/2013 12:50:42 PM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
To: ken5050
They better hurry. I just saw on Fox Business that Staples is going to start selling 3DSystem’s printer.
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posted on
05/03/2013 12:51:07 PM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Obama is the Chicken Little of politics)
To: null and void
Congressman Steve Israel issued a press release Friday responding to this story: Security checkpoints, background checks, and gun regulations will do little good if criminals can print plastic firearms at home and bring those firearms through metal detectors with no one the wiser, his statement reads.Great, the Congressmen gets it, and surely will propose we do away with these regulations that have been made obsolete by advances in technology! Right?
When I started talking about the issue of plastic firearms months ago, I was told the idea of a plastic gun is science-fiction. Now that this technology is proven, we need to act now to extend the ban [on] plastic firearms.
To: kingu
Call now and get a free TSA agent with your 3-D printer! Just pay additional postage and handling. (And we do mean “handling.”)
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posted on
05/03/2013 12:52:03 PM PDT
by
clintonh8r
("Europe was created by history. America was created by a philosophy." Baroness Thatcher)
To: mylife
The purpose of the liberator was to sneak behind the enemy, shoot them, and get a BETTER gun.
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posted on
05/03/2013 12:52:04 PM PDT
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is v?ery late in the day.")
To: reed13
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posted on
05/03/2013 12:52:28 PM PDT
by
reed13k
(For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
To: The Antiyuppie
That is correct.
It was basically a throw away.
It was not expected to survive much more than 6 shots.
Brass had to be cleared with a wooden dowel.
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posted on
05/03/2013 12:53:53 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Opinions $1, Half Baked Ideas 50c)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
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posted on
05/03/2013 12:57:58 PM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Obama is the Chicken Little of politics)
To: DannyTN
Not everyone should be allowed nude in public.
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posted on
05/03/2013 12:59:18 PM PDT
by
The_Media_never_lie
(Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
To: tumblindice
Those are M-3 “Grease Gun” submachine guns. Fired a .45ACP cartridge. They had barrels that would allow them to fire 9x19 rounds in some cases.
They were produced to bring down the cost of sub-guns, because the Thompson “tommy gun” was (and still is) a very expensive, exquisitely machined piece of work. Those are mostly sheet metal stampings.
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posted on
05/03/2013 1:06:07 PM PDT
by
NVDave
To: The_Media_never_lie
I don’t go out in public nude for two reasons. First I don’t want to and more importantly the public certainly doesn’t want me to.
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posted on
05/03/2013 1:06:31 PM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Obama is the Chicken Little of politics)
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