3D printers dont care if you don't like guns.

[TampaAnimusVortex]

That genie was out of the bottle a while back. You might as well try to regulate which way the wind blows.

3D Printable Files for Cody Wilson’s Liberator Gun are Now Available to All on 3DShare
http://3dprint.com/73842/download-3d-printed-gun/

[jeff47]

1. Yes, if you only spend 100x the cost of a gun, you can print a gun.

And they're even up to a printed gun that can fire four shots now!

Somehow, I think the "real" guns are a bit more of a problem.

Did you know that lots of high-end color printers run software that refuses to accurately print currency? Golly, I wonder if such a thing could be adapted to 3d printing....

[TampaAnimusVortex]

3. Really? So this plastic gun firing 600 rounds is CGI?

Of course this wont ever be a problem (he says not looking 5 years into the future).

[jeff47]

4. Psst...only the white part is 3d-printed.

The rest of the gun is made "the old fashioned way".

[Spazito]

5. LOL...

[TampaAnimusVortex]

6. And your point? You can buy those parts easily.

And on the outside chance, they did outlaw other parts, pretty much the rest of it can be printed or made easily.

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=ar15+parts

[jeff47]

11. Currently, 3d-printed barrels foul after only a few shots.

So no, the rest of it can not be printed or made easily.

Also, firing chambers are a problem, but the barrel fails first.

[Orsino]

22. You can buy ALL the parts much too easily. n/t

[aikoaiko]

17. right, but that is the only BATFE controlled part. Everything else can be mail ordered or ...

..,picked up a flea market with cash.

[jeff47]

19. Under current law. The OP's not trying to argue about current law

but attempting to cut off any further attempts at gun control.

(Btw, before this goes further, I don't support banning parts.)

[DanTex]

2. Odd that we're the only first-world nation with astronomical gun violence rates then.

You'd think that with these 3D-printed guns, people in the UK and Canada and Europe and Australia and Japan would be shooting each other just as much as Americans.

[TampaAnimusVortex]

8. They seem to understand that as the technology spreads, its only a matter of time.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/25/world/europe/uk-police-3d-printer-gun/

[DanTex]

10. Tell you what. Let's adopt UK style rules and save tens of thousands of lives per

year until this 3D-gun things takes off. I'm betting it never will. But even if it does, there are still many thousands of lives to be saved in the mean time.

And besides, if the 3D-gun thing is so easy, I'm sure you won't mind having to print your gun rather than buying one at the store.

[TampaAnimusVortex]

13. Never going to happen.

The culture in the U.S. is far different than the U.K.

Do you REALLY think Texas or other like state is going to allow anything like that? Yes, Maybe in New York or LA, but never in West Virgina or Utah. You can get that out of your pretty little head right now.

By the time you made any culture change, everyone would have a 3D printer on their desk and a gun is a click away.

[DanTex]

15. Probably true. Too many Americans think that easy access to guns is more valuable than

the tens of thousands of people killed every year. So instead of sensible gun laws, we have mass shootings.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

26. You're conflating two completely different things.

"Is it going to happen?" and "Would it be a good thing if it happened?" are two completely different questions. Both of them are very easy to answer - the answers are "definitely not" and "definitely", respectively.

So don't fret, thousands of Americans are going to go on dying needlessly every year, but no-one is going to take your gun away.

[Eleanors38]

7. Then there is always the less polarizing bomb. nt

[LanternWaste]

9. Interestingly enough, 3D printers also don't care if one promotes an agenda on DU

Interestingly enough, 3D printers also don't care if one promotes a hidden agenda on DU, regardless of wind direction and genies.

[MohRokTah]

12. Oddly enough, explosives can be manufactured with common household chemicals.

I don't see a lot of bathtub bombs going off all over the place.

[TampaAnimusVortex]

14. Why would they need to? A gun is easy to buy or make.

Also, ask yourself. If this kid who shot up a church didn't have that gun handy, you really don't think he wouldn't have done exactly that... Made some home-made bomb and tossed it in? He was crazy, and he aimed to do crazy things. Not much was going to stop him unless someone knew in advance of the plans.

[MohRokTah]

18. Thanks for proving my point. eom

[FrodosPet]

23. The Day Abraham Blew Himself Up at Emmanuel Baptist Church

http://brucegerencser.net/2015/04/the-day-abraham-blew-himself-up-at-emmanuel-baptist-church/

~ snip ~

In the 1970’s, Emmanuel Baptist Church was a large church, one of the largest churches in the United States. The church ran buses all over the Pontiac/Detroit area. During my time at Emmanuel, the church operated 80 buses.

One of the bus riders was a young man name Abraham.

Abraham was a walking contradiction. He was a brilliant, crazy, mentally ill young man.

~ snip ~

One day there was an explosion at the church. Abraham had built a bomb and brought to church. He carried the bomb into the restroom and, whether accidentally or on purpose, the bomb detonated. It was the last strange thing Abraham ever did. The bomb blew Abraham to bits. One man who helped clean up the mess said bits and pieces of Abraham fell from the drop ceiling.

~ snip ~

[hr]
http://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/30/us/police-say-bomb-in-a-church-may-have-been-planted-in-79.html

Police Say Bomb in a Church May Have Been Planted in '79
AP
Published: April 30, 1985

PONTIAC, Mich., April 29— A homemade bomb found in a church and detonated by the police was probably planted six years ago by a man who died in a 1979 bomb explosion there, the authorities said Sunday.

A maintenance worker spotted the pipe bomb Saturday above a ceiling panel in the basement recreation area of Emmanuel Baptist Church, said Sgt. Gary Johnston of the Pontiac police.

He said the bomb was probably placed there by Abraham Roberts, who was killed in October 1979 when a bomb he was handling in the church exploded and blew out a wall.

Mr. Roberts, who was 25 years old, was a member of the church who had a history of mental problems and apparently made the bombs in retaliation for being barred from worship services because he was disruptive, Sergeant Johnston said.

~ snip ~

[Skidmore]

16. And gun owners rejoice because

the future of killing others has been saved and they are made better people for it. Thre is no purpose for thatcgun han to kill another person.

I am weary to the bone of seeing all the ways weaponry and the mayhem they inflict are justified.

[jmowreader]

20. So they've come up with a new way to make zip guns. Yawn.

[hunter]

21. Oh bother.

This is the U.S.A..

You don't need to make a gun yourself, the market is saturated with them.

It's easier to get a gun in the U.S.A. than it is to get a gram of cannabis.

[Warren DeMontague]

24. Right or wrong, meaningful gun control is not going to happen in this country.

So it's pretty much a moot argument anyway.

If we couldn't get the most modest sort of background check legislation through after a school full of 6 year olds was shot up... it's just not going to happen.

The people arguing over it- from all sides- are fairly well wasting their time.

[alcibiades_mystery]

25. This truly is the dumbest of all the gunner nonsense

Plenty of shit that's easy to produce is regulated and/or illegal. It's trivially easy to make methamphetamine, for instance, from a chemical point of view. It's easy to grow cannabis. Nevertheless, you get caught doing it and you're going to prison in many states.

Here's how simple it is: you 3D print a gun, you go to federal prison for five years.

Of course, we won't pass that law because the Congress and 100 million dupes are complete tools of the gun manufacturers, but the fact that one can 3D print a gun is neither here nor there.

How fucking stupid are these people?

[beevul]

27. That seems a bit of a contradiction.

Of course, we won't pass that law because the Congress and 100 million dupes are complete tools of the gun manufacturers, but the fact that one can 3D print a gun is neither here nor there.

That seems a bit of a contradiction.

3D printing of gun parts seems like it would hurt the bottom line of the manufacturers, not help it.

This seems like it would be a gift to manufacturers:

Here's how simple it is: you 3D print a gun, you go to federal prison for five years.