A plastic gun with no metal parts is a plastic pipe bomb shaped like a gun.
There is now titanium 3d printing technology.
A firearm that won’t rust and never wear out?
You don’t need to make the gun all plastic. Just the part which is the “firearm”, per BATF definition.
Take the Glock, for example. The plastic frame is the piece with the serial number. I can buy a replacement barrel over the counter. I can buy the trigger assembly over the counter. So if I create a Glock frame, I can buy everything else that’s needed to make it a working gun for cash without paperwork.
Same thing for many other handguns and rifles. For an AR15, you just have to make the lower. The upper, with the barrel, you can buy for cash.
This is the same crap they came up with 35-40 years ago when Glocks first came out. Guns must have metal barrels and chambers...all detectable. Just a new crop of assholes.
This is the same crap they came up with 35-40 years ago when Glocks first came out. Guns must have metal barrels and chambers...all detectable. Just a new crop of assholes.
This is the same crap they came up with 35-40 years ago when Glocks first came out. Guns must have metal barrels and chambers...all detectable. Just a new crop of assholes.
This is the same crap they came up with 35-40 years ago when Glocks first came out. Guns must have metal barrels and chambers...all detectable. Just a new crop of assholes.
Actually the furor around this has tempted me to design a 3D printed air pistol with a fillable compressed air chamber similar to how many modern metal airguns work.
It would fire a single sharp, finned plastic (or wood, or carbon fiber, or ceramic, or...?) projectile.
I'm quite confident that such a gun could be lethal against an unarmored person. It also would NOT be covered by the "Undetectable Firearms Act", and would certainly serve the purpose of the "Liberator" pistol of WW II - getting a "real" gun from a bad guy.
The real beauty of it would be that it would require nothing beyond the printer, filament, and an air compressor or pump. I wonder how available 3D printers are in places like Iran and Venezuela...
Interesting times we live in...