• Police arrest man for possessing printer
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[url]http://www.newstatesman.com/future-proof/2013/10/3d-printed-gun-seized-manchester-actually-spare-printer-parts[/url] [img]http://www.newstatesman.com/sites/default/files/images/Assembled_preview_featured%5B1%5D.jpg[/img] [quote]Greater Manchester Police claim that their raid on a gang hideout early this morning led to the seizure of the first 3D-printed gun in the UK. Except, they probably haven’t. For those who aren’t familiar with this, it’s now possible to 3D-print a working gun. Cody Wilson founded Defense Distributed in 2012 as a platform for his belief in the right to bear arms, using the site as a place to distribute (hence the name) the designs for the Liberator pistol. Every single piece of this pistol, except for the firing pin - which can be an off-the-shelf nail from any hardware store - is plastic. It took a long time to get the design right, but eventually Wilson demonstrated in front of reporters that the Liberator works. It’s plastic, though, with a smooth, unbored barrel, so it’s very difficult to aim, and the pressure and heat that it has to contain during firing can cause warping and cracks that render the gun useless. Or, worse, make it explode. In short, it's a crap gun. There’s a reason guns are made of metal; the Liberator is almost more of a political statement by Wilson than something intended for regular. It’s a middle finger aimed at any government that wants to restrict access to any firearm as a point of principle. By making the plans available online, disseminating them through file-sharing sites, means that even suppressing the idea is effectively impossible.[/quote] Rest of the article is in the source. They thought this was a "magazine" [img]http://www.newstatesman.com/sites/default/files/images/DSC_0885_preview_featured%5B1%5D.jpg[/img]
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This country needs Printer Control reform.
I don't understand why people think you need a 3D printer to make a gun. Even worse is that these police and authority figures believe them to be a threat. A Chechen, now that's threatening. A single Chechen can make anything into a gun.
High-capacity assault printers
Or you know, they could go to the hardware store and make one from some black iron pipes and a shotgun shell
[QUOTE=Explosions;42644256]High-capacity assault printers[/QUOTE] With rapid printing capabilities and numerous cartridge types.
[QUOTE=Binladen34;42644253]I don't understand why people think you need a 3D printer to make a gun. Even worse is that these police and authority figures believe them to be a threat. A Chechen, now that's threatening. A single Chechen can make anything into a gun.[/QUOTE] First google image result [img]http://i.imgur.com/8mpNb6K.png[/img] That's some MacGyver level shit
Meanwhile, my printer won't print black and white when the color is low. Did they raid them for this printer/plastic-gun alone, or for some other reason? All the article says is they found actual firearms.
[QUOTE=Explosions;42644256]High-capacity assault printers[/QUOTE] Then Obama would find a way to...you know...*cough* arrest you, and say you broke the ban on Military Weapon.
[QUOTE=mix999;42644291]First google image result [img]http://i.imgur.com/8mpNb6K.png[/img] That's some MacGyver level shit[/QUOTE] if you know the mechanics of a gun, they're incredible easy to make.
[QUOTE=mix999;42644291]First google image result [img]http://i.imgur.com/8mpNb6K.png[/img] That's some MacGyver level shit[/QUOTE] You can do it with less.
Someone post the guy who made an ak47 look alike with a shovel
It's like DarkRP in real life!
[QUOTE=OvB;42644361]You can do it with less.[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;n1wV3lmbSv4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1wV3lmbSv4[/video]
[QUOTE=Griffster26;42645432][video=youtube;n1wV3lmbSv4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1wV3lmbSv4[/video][/QUOTE] Those saw a lot of use during the second world war, typically by guerrillas of varying nationality. The Philippine resistance called it "the four winds shotgun", because you could literally scatter the parts all over the place so they'd look innocuous.
The Brit who designed the Sten gun designed it so that any Briton could make one out of sink piping in case Britain got invaded, and they were commonly built in toy factories, making makeshift guns isn't new.
[QUOTE=Griffster26;42645432][video=youtube;n1wV3lmbSv4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1wV3lmbSv4[/video][/QUOTE] Years ago a mate of mine found a shotgun shell, he took it home, shoved it in a tree and smacked it.
[QUOTE=DaCommie1;42648885]The Brit who designed the Sten gun designed it so that any Briton could make one out of sink piping in case Britain got invaded, and they were commonly built in toy factories, making makeshift guns isn't new.[/QUOTE] It was also notoriously rickety at times, some have been reported to discharge their entire magazines for no reason :v:
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;42649192]It was also notoriously rickety at times, some have been reported to discharge their entire magazines for no reason :v:[/QUOTE] One of the main reasons the British mass produced such an unreliable weapon was because of all the materiel they'd lost at Dunkirk. They needed automatic weapons, and they needed them fast.
A dude managed to make a gun out of a spent 20mm shell casing. It's really not that hard honestly. Just need a tube, a handle, and something to act as a firing pin
[QUOTE=Kyle902;42649301]A dude managed to make a gun out of a spent 20mm shell casing. It's really not that hard honestly. Just need a tube, a handle, and something to act as a firing pin[/QUOTE] In that case, it was less firing pin, and more slowmatch/black powder. Guy had essentially built a primitive pistol shotgun that had to be almost pressed against the target to work. Seen here: [t]http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131005210326/guns/images/1/18/Eoka_pistol!.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;42649330]In that case, it was less firing pin, and more slowmatch/black powder. Guy had essentially built a primitive pistol shotgun that had to be almost pressed against the target to work. Seen here: [t]http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131005210326/guns/images/1/18/Eoka_pistol!.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] I have a copy of the book that that pic is from, a few pages back in that section has a full-auto SMG with hand made magazines and a rifled barrel that was made by some IRA dude in the 1980s, there's loads of info on the history of guns in that book.
[QUOTE=zombini;42649439]I have a copy of the book that that pic is from, a few pages back in that section has a full-auto SMG with hand made magazines and a rifled barrel that was made by some IRA dude in the 1980s, there's loads of info on the history of guns in that book.[/QUOTE] Like someone said above, Sten guns are piss-easy to make with a little know-how, and the right tools.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;42649192]It was also notoriously rickety at times, some have been reported to discharge their entire magazines for no reason :v:[/QUOTE] Well a lot of them were assembled by school children so...
[QUOTE=Explosions;42644256]High-capacity assault printers[/QUOTE] Jaykin' Bacon devs should note
[QUOTE=zombini;42649439]I have a copy of the book that that pic is from, a few pages back in that section has a full-auto SMG with hand made magazines and a rifled barrel that was made by some IRA dude in the 1980s, there's loads of info on the history of guns in that book.[/QUOTE] Think I might have the same book. It's regarding weapons in general, throughout the ages, with modern, cartridge-based armaments as the last chapter, right?
[QUOTE=Timebomb575;42644286]Or you know, they could go to the hardware store and make one from some black iron pipes and a shotgun shell[/QUOTE] And it would certainly work better for longer than this plastic crap. I bet you could 3D print some nice Airsoft guns but even those you'd need some actual parts from elsewhere for it to be worth while
3D printing works well for Nerf parts. Real guns? go to the hardware store, grab few bits of pipe, ???, success. With sheet metal and half a brain you could probably do an automatic/semi automatic gun of sorts. They're really not that complex.
I thought this was going to be about some guy preforming a satanic ritual on a printer or something. Bedtime!
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