On 18 July, 2018, on the Sunshine Coast of Eastern Australia, in the town of Mudjimba, police raided a house and found some 3D printed plastic guns, some printed false identification, and a small amount of drugs. From news.com.au:
Posted on 08/15/2018 6:00:43 AM PDT by marktwain
On 18 July, 2018, on the Sunshine Coast of Eastern Australia, in the town of Mudjimba, police raided a house and found some 3D printed plastic guns, some printed false identification, and a small amount of drugs. From news.com.au:
"They are all polymer and all they needed was a pin and a spring-type assembly pushed into it to make it work. For all intents and purposes they would look like a gun."The 3D revolver shown above appears to be a variation of the Imura revolver design, named for the Japanese inventor who was jailed for making a 3D printed revolver that was capable of firing blanks. The Mudjimba revolver does not seem to have any metal in it. This makes it highly unlikely for successful operation. As the police noted, a firing pin and spring would be needed at a minimum. If the officer quoted thinks it would contain the forces of factory ammunition, I would like to see a video of him test firing it.
Police allege that three 3D-printed handguns, along with weapon parts, a knuckle duster, false licences and drugs, were found at a house at Mudjimba on Wednesday.
Should Australia ban 3D-printed gun plans like the US?The United States has *not* banned 3D-printed guns. Designs have been freely available on the Internet in the United States for five years. Unlike Australia, individuals in the United States have always had a right to make their own firearms, and have done so for over 200 years. Only recently have a couple of authoritarian states claimed to have the power to license individuals who desire to make their own guns. Those claims will eventually be challenged in court.
Mr Matthews said that, while there should be a crackdown on printed weapons because “there is nothing stopping someone from getting a print from the States”, he disagrees with the need for regulatory movement against the 3D printing process being used to print other items.
In New South Wales, replicas are treated the same as actual firearms. The computer code to print a 3D gun is considered a gun.
“They are all polymer and all they needed was a pin and a spring-type assembly pushed into it to make it work. For all intents and purposes they would look like a gun.”
What would the bullets look like?
“The computer code to print a 3D gun is considered a gun.”
I wonder if carrying a thumb drive with the (legal in USA) 3d printer files onto school property would be considered a crime in far-left anti-gun states like Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Maryland.
The propaganda war continues. Or... should I call it a war for our minds, an infowar?
“Looks like a gun” is not a gun. Cap pistols, which have all but disappeared from modern life (except for some few that may have stayed in some kid’s collection years ago) looked like “real” guns, too, but there was no way they could have been converted into a real gun without an awful lot of machine work.
These “polymer pistols” have a very limited lifetime, with maybe a fifty-fifty chance of blowing the user’s hand off if used. For sure there is no second firing.
Now, modified with metal parts for barrel and chamber, and a reliable spring mechanism for the trigger, they could be as deadly as the same caliber handgun made in the conventional manner, but the heat and the pressure would also limit the use to no more than a couple of rounds before the device became too hot to hold, or deformed and became altogether useless. And the idea they would be undetectable by X-ray would be laughable, because of the added metal.
What we have here is an absolutely paralyzing fear of guns, all guns, bordering on superstition. It is my contention that guns not be made secret and mysterious, but be a part of EVERY child’s education, from the basic design of the mechanism, so the difference between a single-shot, a revolving chamber, a lever-cocking reload, and a semi-automatic reload system, and contrast this with a fully automatic weapon, which fires continuously until the trigger is released.
The next step is to further acquaint the young with the actual use, care, feeding, grooming, and proper means of handling the handgun or long gun in a controlled situation.
The next level will cover the basics of target selection, aiming at the specified target, and developing the skills to accurately put a bullet into that target with high reliability.
By this time, it should be apparent to those providing the instruction, there are some few who, either through ineptness, or those who bear malice thoughts of misusing the weapon, should never, ever be permitted access to a live-fire projectile. These few would be given appropriate instructions on how to avoid, evade or escape the presence of an armed person with real malice in mind, or for the more brave, how to confront such a person, and distract them sufficiently to either ruin their aim, or even surrender up the weapon.
Why would you write that response to an obvious joke?
What joke? The Australians are very obviously serious abot the mystic powers of firearms.
Much better. Thanks...
Easier with brass or steel.
Tannenburg Handgonne from the 1300s.
Use triple wall seamless steel pipe, home made black powder, close one end, drill a touch hole.
The problem is that for an essentially peaceful people, such as the Australians in their cities, they do not wish to be bothered by learning about guns.
Much easier to forbid everyone from having them (with a few minor exceptions), than have to learn all that nasty stuff about mechanics, weapons, and the laws about self defense.
“Looks like a gun” is not a gun.
You won’t score too many points with Mary, but you will have made your point.
You can bet that Hillary would've steered BATFE in that direction. *shudder*
Those guys have been known to stretch the credible limits of "constructive possession" in the past, when they had an enabling administration.
I had my gun confiscated in kindergarden. It leaked into the book I had cut out to hide it in. It was a Readers Digest.
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