Print the revolution, comrades.https://twitter.com/Everytown/status/1021519942615740416 …
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Interesting question to someone who probably knows more than I do - could you print a single-shot gun? Not something that's supposed to be reused, but something all-plastic that'll fire exactly once.
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In principle, maybe? The challenge is the pressure the chamber can withstand. But it's been done before.
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That's my thought. If you can find a way to print something that'll get bullet A to target B and be completely undetectable, even if it only works once... well. It'd be terrifying.
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I read in a book many, many years ago that these kinds of guns with mostly plastic parts were banned more than 20 or 30 years ago because they could so easily be sneaked onto planes. I think this was even before 9/11, mind you.
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True, although the gun type in question was specifically a Swiss or Italian model. Or it was a category being introduced by both (one of them being Beretta, according to my faulty memory). Amazing how things change.
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The big blocky unit, called the liberator, is 100% printed, except for a common nail that is used as the firing pin. It's good for one shot, will blow up in your hand if it's off spec, or printed with the wrong filament. But itself may not set off a metal detector
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I, for one, look forward to our new, handless 2A champions. That will own the libs right proper.
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People realize that guns heat up kind of a lot when you shoot them, and that 3D printers work by melting things, right
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I feel like there are some low hanging fruit jokes about the NRA and “you wouldn’t download a gun” 2000s piracy bits
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(This makes me a terrible person but I know just enough about Saturday Night Specials & zip guns to know they often exploded. I’m perfectly ok with natural consequences in search of a target.)
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I remember Lyudmilla Pavlichenko had 309 rifles printed out, cos they were only good for one shot each.
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Wait you want people to be able to print guns? Cute.
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