3D-printed gun plans explode online (1 website logged 1.4 million requests in 3 weeks)

wnd.com ^ | 8/21/2018 | unknown

[rktman]

Plans for 3D-printed guns have spread across the internet over the past three weeks despite the efforts of a federal judge and some of the country’s largest social media companies to try to impose limits.

Gun rights supporters say the online explosion — one website owner who posted the plans said his site logged 1.4 million requests over the past three weeks — shows the futility of efforts to put the genie back into the bottle.

But gun control advocates are still battling and will be back in court Tuesday to ask U.S. District Judge Robert S. Lasnik to extend his order halting a settlement between Texas-based Defense Distributed and the State Department, which struck a deal rolling back Obama-era restrictions on posting the plans.

[rktman]

Link goes to Washington Times which is acting up on my computer this morning. I'll post the link in the follow up . Anyway, a few machine tools and a half way descent machinist can still turn out a gun or two.

[rktman]

Washington times linky:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/20/3d-printed-guns-plans-explode-across-internet-amid/

[DouglasKC]

I don’t even have a 3d printer but I went to a site and downloaded everything they had just in case.

[rktman]

Just in case you stumble upon one at a garage sale? :-)

[DouglasKC]

Just in case you stumble upon one at a garage sale? :-)

I'll find one somewhere! But for now it's the principle of the thing.

[moovova]

"Just in case you stumble upon one at a garage sale? :-) "

Don't laugh. I picked up one of these old knitting machines at an attic sale for a steal.

[moovova]

Seriously though...how can this be? All of the lead social platforms have de-platformed anybody trying to spread this digital evil.

/sarc

[fireman15]

I have got a 3-D printer; I downloaded the files, but I wouldn’t spend hours printing out a “firearm” that is basically a joke. It would take much less time and result in a more effective firearm that was less likely to blow up in my hand if I went to the Home Depot and bought some pipe fittings.

But why would I bother with either project when great proven and relatively inexpensive firearms are still easy to obtain. The left is obsessed with 3-D printed “guns” only because they want to take away all guns and as long as these plans are floating around they know that they won’t be able to do it. It is actually pretty funny in some ways that they are so afraid of these mediocre toys.

[bert]

If you go one part at a time, you can probably subcontract the actual 3D printing.

You might even get your local community college to take the jobs.

[fireman15]

It is probably better not to have the terms explode and 3-D gun in the same sentence.

[Jed Eckert]

It would take much less time and result in a more effective firearm that was less likely to blow up in my hand if I went to the Home Depot and bought some pipe fittings.

Exactly right.

The late Philip Luty demonstrated that safe, workable firearms could be constructed of common materials available at plumbing and hardware stores. No lathes, mills or 3D printers required. The Brit authorities ended up arresting him over it.

Luty's website: The Home Gunsmith

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I’m a firm believer in quality over quantity every time.

Guide to gun metal.

http://www.rifleshootermag.com/rifles/ar-15/guide-to-gun-metal/

[DouglasKC]

But why would I bother with either project when great proven and relatively inexpensive firearms are still easy to obtain. The left is obsessed with 3-D printed “guns” only because they want to take away all guns and as long as these plans are floating around they know that they won’t be able to do it. It is actually pretty funny in some ways that they are so afraid of these mediocre toys.

Yep, no way to control them. And it's easy for someone with limited tools or mechanical skills to make a gun. And it's decentralized. Can't go to the firearms manufacturer and say "stop making guns or else".

[Col Freeper]

[Don’t laugh. I picked up one of these old knitting machines at an attic sale for a steal.]

Wow, that was a Top-of-the-Line Model at the time too!

[rktman]

Yup. Much easier to "get" a reliable firearm out of the trunk of some random car in a seedy neighborhood. Or the gun shop. 🔫💸👍🏼👹🇺🇸

[Tenacious 1]

This is hilarious to me because it drives the left crazy. They are going to start setting themselves on fire to protest technology. LMAO!

Their ignorance is appalling. “OMG! What will happen to this world if people can make guns in their garage!!!!????” Oh, NOOOOOOO!

The secret is, a potato gun can be lethal. A slingshot can be lethal. There are any number of things that are a lot easier to build than a fully functional and EFFECTIVE weapon of mass destruction (gun). These liberals think that this means that anybody can produce AR-15 “machine gun” in their garage for pennies.

1) They have no idea what a 3-D printer does.
2) They have no idea how a gun works.
3) They no nothing of the physics, science and metallurgical knowledge that goes into containing and focusing the energy behind a projectile.
4) They have no idea what the equipment and material costs.

I could no more afford to “make my own gun” with a 3-D printer than I could build and launch a SpaceEx rocket, if I had the plans. I might know how to do it, but don’t have the means.

Maybe someday.....

[Tenacious 1]

EXACTLY! See post #16.

[Cold Heart]

Trying to get more people to download the plans I posted for 3D printed plastic straws.

[rktman]

LOL! Yup. 5th graders are gonna be crankin’ out ARs by the truck load any minute now. The depths of stoopidness are being plumbed pretty dang deep these days. Kind of like mary anns trench or whatever it is out in the specific ocean. ;-)

[Ancesthntr]

“The left is obsessed with 3-D printed “guns” only because they want to take away all guns and as long as these plans are floating around they know that they won’t be able to do it.”

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Well, that is exactly the point. I downloaded a bunch of the plans, even though I don’t have a 3-D printer or plans to acquire one any time soon. Just them not wanting them is enough for me to go out of my way to get them, similar to how I went with friends to Pennsylvania gun shows in the mid- to late-’90s to get normal capacity magazines to bring back to fascist New Jersey.

“It is actually pretty funny in some ways that they are so afraid of these mediocre toys.”

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NOW they make mediocre toys. Wait 5-10 years, when both the plans and the machines become more sophisticated. One can already obtain 3-D printers that can sinter metal (albeit not firearm-quality metal, not for what most people can afford), and that’s what you really need for a reliable firearm.

I’m all in favor of letting the genie out of the bottle on this - the more guns there are, the more freedom we will have (see my tagline).