3-D Printed Assault Rifle Breaks After Just 6 Shots

[Oskutin]

My university has developed 3d metal printer.

[Mugofdoom]

[QUOTE=adam1172;38719487]As far as I know, where I live it is literally easier to get a smuggled illegal weaponry than to print a gun that shoots 6 bullets.[/QUOTE]

That's the way it is almost anywhere. 3D printers aren't cheap.

After the initial buy though they pay for themselves rather quickly.

[Madman_Andre]

[QUOTE=OrionChronicles;38705661]plastic parts like that don't last very long under the strain of gunfire.[/QUOTE]

Especially the high chamber pressures associated with assault rifle calibers. I'm surprised they got six shots off with 5.56. Something larger like 7.62 or a 12-Gauge would probably destroy the gun on the first shot.

[editline]5th December 2012[/editline]

[QUOTE=adam1172;38719487]As far as I know, where I live it is literally easier to get a smuggled illegal weaponry than to print a gun that shoots 6 bullets.[/QUOTE]

Let me guess: Either Russia or Detroit?

[[EG] Pepper]

[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;38715886]They also had an episode of CSI where some criminals got their hands on a metal storm system and literally evaporated people with it and another episode where a hurricane picked up a bullet and hurled it through a woman's head. CSI is hardly the place for realism and practicality.[/QUOTE]

CSI is riddled with computer illiteracy too.

99% of anything they talk about computers is impossible.

Like the episode with a virus carved into a bone blowing up all their shit

[Mugofdoom]

[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;38720272]Especially the high chamber pressures associated with assault rifle calibers. I'm surprised they got six shots off with 5.56. Something larger like 7.62 or a 12-Gauge would probably destroy the gun on the first shot.?[/QUOTE]

They used a 5.7x28 upper that uses P90 mags. I honestly doubt it would even withstand 3 5.56 rounds, but who knows?

They should try this with a .22lr conversion kit.

[Michael haxz]

I'm guessing that 7.62MM NATOs are out of the question?