Posted on 05/06/2013 6:50:23 PM PDT by marktwain
In this YouTube video, more details are revealed about the first pistol to be completely produced by a 3D printer. There is one metal part, but it is made from a common nail, and is so ubiquitous that it does not offer any impediment to the creation of these pistols.
Interesting details in this video include how the pistol is loaded. As I thought previously, the .380 ACP, 9x17, 9mm Kurtz, or 9mm Corto, all different designations for the same cartridge, is pushed into the chamber of the barrel by hand, then the barrel is simply snapped into place in the frame of the pistol.
If more than one barrel is printed, relatively fast reloading is possible because the cartridge case need not be extracted. Each barrel would be loaded before use. To reload, the fired barrel would be snapped out of the frame with a rapid upward tug of the off hand. A new loaded barrel would be snapped into place. With a little practice reloading should be possible in 2 seconds.
The video shows that four barrels were printed for the pistol.
As the pistols do not appear to be expensive to make once the 3D printer is available, the common custom from the days of military single shot pistols could be adopted, and a brace (pair) of pistols could be carried.
From the front angle of the video, after the shot, you can see the dark spot of powder residue in the end of the barrel.
Link to Gun Watch and YouTube Video
Dean Weingarten Defense Distributed Distributor
Yup. I read Blackbeard carried six of them on his person, ready to fire, at all times.
Politicans of course don't want to bring up this angle because if they advocate overthrowing oppressive leaders, they might find out their citizens put them in that category.
Not much better than a zip gun really. If anything would rather just get a black powder revolver, at least it has six shoots and most places you don’t even need to fill out a form. Of course getting black powder now days might be a bit more difficult but it’s easily made.
/johnny
Texans doing what Texans do.
Solving problems and innovating.
Now lets perfect caseless cartridges.
Muzzle loading revolvers would be superior weapons, faster firing, accurate, and more reliable.
But, they are subject to the same controls as cartridge arms in some states, and many countries.
In any case, this is primarily an intellectual and political exercise.
Make an rc C-17 Globemaster like this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5FjTcctkC4
controlled with drone avionics and electronics (easily available) and send it on a preprogrammed route over NorKlandia dropping those things by the plane load.
I don’t see what the point of the government going after this is.
Two pipes and a screw make a one shot shotgun.
“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.
/johnny
3-D printers are printing with everything from concrete to ceramics to human tissue to sintered metals now.
/johnny
“3-D printers are printing with everything from concrete to ceramics to human tissue to sintered metals now.”
Ya, good luck getting one of those for a reasonable price. Even the do-it-yourself ABS plastic printers are running around $600-1000. I’ve seen the technology used for other materials and it’s not cheap, strictly industrial and doesn’t look to be something most people will ever be able to afford, hell be the cheap ABS printers are out of the reach of most people. Who wants to drop $1000 just to be able to print this out? Not many. If you really want to go that route you’d be better off with a good CNC machine, then you could make anything you wanted in pretty much any material.
I believe that a normal center fire round can be initiated with electricity.
Exactly.
The prices are coming down quickly on 3-D printers.
Nobody's talking about buying one just to print out this plastic pistol V1.0. But if you have access to a printer, the plans are opensource. I'm sure V2.0 will be much better.
Just like the AR-15 lower designed to be printed on a 3-D printer. They went through several iterations before they got something reasonable.
What you are looking at is proof of concept, not the finished design.
/johnny
What we need here is a "Paradigm Shift"....(whack on the side of the head for those in Rio Linda)...
So the trick is to make a MOULD with the 3-D printer....
then use a metal powder and polymer fill that is converted into solid with liquid catalyst....(surface tension draws the liquid into the powder).....
That way you get a much stronger product.
First up....a wheel gun.
It's the opposite of homosexual marriage: in that situation, government removes the standard of one man-one woman and then there is no standard: polygamy cannot be banned because there is no longer a standard.
Well, if anyone can make a plastic gun at any time, then how can the government infringe on gun rights anymore? By what standard can you say "There is a law against that"? You can't infringe on plastic guns because ... well, you can't. It's like calling me an art forger because like laserjet printer is making copies of the Mona Lisa. If the government can't stop people from making plastic guns at home,how can the government infringe on Smith&Wesson? That's selective prosecution.
You don't need to have super fancy equipment: just the fact that you could have super fancy equipment is enough to make this a game-changer. Basic $1000 printers making single-shot plastic guns is like allowing homosexual marriage in MA -- the principle is established and now nothing can stop it. Real arms manufacturers will be the big winners here.
/johnny
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