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3D-Printed Guns A Reality
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3D printer technology and what it represents for home/local manufacture is one of the more interesting technologica
12:21 Mon 06th May 2013
I think it's a long way down the line until 3D printers of the scale and quality required to print anything like a gun will be anywhere near the price range of the average home user and even then you're going to end up with a seriously compromised gun which could probably only hit a target at 50yards by luck.
Also worth remembering that ammunition is fairly tightly controlled in the UK too and anyone who can easily get their hands on ammo without a firearms license is probably also in the position to get hold of a proper and much more effective and reliable gun.
Also worth remembering that ammunition is fairly tightly controlled in the UK too and anyone who can easily get their hands on ammo without a firearms license is probably also in the position to get hold of a proper and much more effective and reliable gun.
On a serious note, it's such a non-argument to counter "we should be worried about such-and-such" with "we should be worried about this". Why take only one issue at a time? We should be worried about, or concerned about, lots of things. A meteorite collision is fairly low down on my list, and perhaps higher on yours, but it's not exactly any more urgent than the possible risk of guns being (relatively) freely available to download off the internet.
The control on ammo availability is more important. I probably forgot about that in making the OP.
The control on ammo availability is more important. I probably forgot about that in making the OP.
3D printer technology and what it represents for home/local manufacture is one of the more interesting technological developments of the next few decades.
Not sure that we need worry too much about plastic guns though, for the reasons stated above. Where guns are plentiful, it is probably easier just to go buy a regular gun. Where they are not so easy to get hold of, they might represent a threat- but you still would need a firing pin and ammunition - not so easy to get hold of, and not something you can easily make from scratch either.
Not exactly sure how reliable or accurate a 3d printed gun would be either....
So I think the story is a bit of self-prmotion for the "crypto-anarchist" cody, and more hype and interest in 3d printers :)
Not sure that we need worry too much about plastic guns though, for the reasons stated above. Where guns are plentiful, it is probably easier just to go buy a regular gun. Where they are not so easy to get hold of, they might represent a threat- but you still would need a firing pin and ammunition - not so easy to get hold of, and not something you can easily make from scratch either.
Not exactly sure how reliable or accurate a 3d printed gun would be either....
So I think the story is a bit of self-prmotion for the "crypto-anarchist" cody, and more hype and interest in 3d printers :)
My Goodness such short sightedness
Did it ever occur to anybody who thought the price of a 3D printer was too high that there are loads of people out there that have access to them in their place of work?
Set a weekend job running get in early and pick it up!
Yes you can make one on a lathe - now what happens when you try to go through a metal detector with one of those?
This makes undetectable fire-arms available to thousands of people
Bad people could always get access to guns -yes
Now bad people can get access to guns that won't get picked up by metal detectors
I find this very scary - If you don't think about it a bit more next time you're on a plane
Did it ever occur to anybody who thought the price of a 3D printer was too high that there are loads of people out there that have access to them in their place of work?
Set a weekend job running get in early and pick it up!
Yes you can make one on a lathe - now what happens when you try to go through a metal detector with one of those?
This makes undetectable fire-arms available to thousands of people
Bad people could always get access to guns -yes
Now bad people can get access to guns that won't get picked up by metal detectors
I find this very scary - If you don't think about it a bit more next time you're on a plane
Mamyalynne, Shakespeare in King Henry VI wrote about "a fall off of a tree."
Richard Steele in The Spectator wrote, "I could not keep my eyes off of her."
Mark Twain in Huckleberry Finn wrote, "I'll borrow two or three dollars off of the judge."
Clearly, "off of" was a common structure in the past and on both sides of the Atlantic. Nowadays it may just be a colloquial or dialectal form here in Britain, but it is obviously still going strong. It may not be 'standard', but it is perfectly acceptable and not a heck of a lot different from "out of", really.
Richard Steele in The Spectator wrote, "I could not keep my eyes off of her."
Mark Twain in Huckleberry Finn wrote, "I'll borrow two or three dollars off of the judge."
Clearly, "off of" was a common structure in the past and on both sides of the Atlantic. Nowadays it may just be a colloquial or dialectal form here in Britain, but it is obviously still going strong. It may not be 'standard', but it is perfectly acceptable and not a heck of a lot different from "out of", really.
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That gun has been downloaded more than 100,000 times in just two days, and those can't be readily traced.
That gun has been downloaded more than 100,000 times in just two days, and those can't be readily traced.
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