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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: null and void
That’s not a gun, that’s a hand grenade. There is no way that plastic is going to hold the pressures of a real centerfire pistol round.
The best they might manage is a one-shot device that destroys itself without harming the user.
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posted on
05/03/2013 1:08:05 PM PDT
by
MikeJ
To: DannyTN
"...including backpacks were rummaged through for valuables by TSA agents."
Ban black backpacks. Only allow see-through backpacks...
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posted on
05/03/2013 1:08:31 PM PDT
by
hummingbird
(So much conspiracy and not enough time.)
To: null and void
I would think it possible to make plastic casings and bullets too, at least with a fair bit of carbon fiber. Graphite lined barrel? Interesting.
Do TSA scanners pick up graphite?
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posted on
05/03/2013 1:09:54 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(An economy is not a zero-sum game, but politics usually is.)
To: kingu
"Thatll be the governments take on it, rather than simply: The people have debated the 2nd Amendment, and the 2nd won."
BTTT.
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posted on
05/03/2013 1:11:05 PM PDT
by
hummingbird
(So much conspiracy and not enough time.)
To: The_Media_never_lie
"Not everyone should be allowed nude in public."So you're saying we would just be trading one form of terrorism for another.
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posted on
05/03/2013 1:12:54 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The broken trigger suggests that the designer was a CAD commando, obsessed with extrusions, volumes of revolution, splined curves, and constructive solid geometry, but spent his time napping during strengths of materials class.
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posted on
05/03/2013 1:20:21 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: null and void
They’ll be push to outlaw cad soon.
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posted on
05/03/2013 1:23:04 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
To: mylife
The WW II Liberator was designed to fire a .45ACP shot into someone’s head, after which the shooter would take the victim’s full-featured gun.
To: DannyTN
As the sayin' goes..
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posted on
05/03/2013 1:25:27 PM PDT
by
Quickgun
(I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
To: Usually_Disappointed
The scary thing here, is that a single bullet starts to get into false alarm territory. People don’t like false alarms (turn the sensitivity down...!) or having to explain their implants (a LOT of people have some kind of metal part).
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posted on
05/03/2013 1:26:49 PM PDT
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is v?ery late in the day.")
To: MrB
You can drop a gun in acid and it’s gone.
You can drop a plastic gun in an acid and it’s gone.
It’s not like this can’t be done now or that it’s a novel idea.
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posted on
05/03/2013 1:26:50 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
To: mylife
RE Liberator:
Any gun gets you a better gun.
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posted on
05/03/2013 1:27:31 PM PDT
by
NFHale
(The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
To: Boogieman
Given this is “House”, the kicker should be “When you’re an a$$hole and you have to deal with stupid people.”
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posted on
05/03/2013 1:29:55 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
To: NFHale
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posted on
05/03/2013 1:31:09 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Opinions $1, Half Baked Ideas 50c)
To: ryan71
Well that wont hold back the federales. Did the Afghanis go force-on-force against the Soviets?
Did the Vietcong start off engaging in set-piece battles against us?
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posted on
05/03/2013 1:50:07 PM PDT
by
null and void
("Och, aye 'twas a huge beastie the shape of a haggis but the size o' the football pitch at Dunkeld!")
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Is that a broken trigger? Sure looks like it...
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posted on
05/03/2013 1:53:38 PM PDT
by
null and void
("Och, aye 'twas a huge beastie the shape of a haggis but the size o' the football pitch at Dunkeld!")
To: MikeJ; All
It is only meant to fire a few times. I am pretty sure it will do that.
I believe the base model is in .22, but many centerfire cartridges have lower pressures.
They could use .32 S&W or .38 S&W. Both are still available.
Heck, they might be *more* available than .22 at the moment!
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posted on
05/03/2013 2:41:54 PM PDT
by
marktwain
(The MSM must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
To: kingu
And now we have the justification required for TSA in bus stations, train stations, subway stations, . . .Which is why they made it a "T" for Transportation instead of "A" for Airport. That allows them on highway checkpoints at some time in the future - if it hasn't already happened. They slid that one by without anybody raising the alarm of "Bureaucracy Creep".
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posted on
05/03/2013 2:53:56 PM PDT
by
Oatka
(This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
To: GraceG
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posted on
05/03/2013 3:45:53 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(The monsters are due on Maple Street)
To: null and void
Not with that plastic gun.
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posted on
05/03/2013 5:10:20 PM PDT
by
ryan71
(The republican party is dead to me. Dead. Don't bother trying to revive it.)
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