http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drPz6n6UXQY
That, ladies and gentlemen, is the sound of gun control laws in the United States and around the world becoming completely pointless. We woke up this morning in a new world, one where a 3D printer and a nail is all you need to own a firearm. You can download the file here, but be aware: I’m pretty sure the smooth barrel in this gun makes it an AOW under U.S. law. Make the jump for some pictures of the original firearm and the first prototypes.
More pictures over at the Defense Distributed blog.
The NRA is in the process of broadening its mission to going beyond the RKBA 2A and to speaking out about the cultural war, liberty, and tyranny. It’s possible the NRA is being increasingly perceived by the elites and globalists as going from being a 2A pain to being a bigger political threat.
Download and share.
Incoming assault nail bans…
What colors does this come in?
If you use a Dimension printer from Stratasys (it was the Elite model shown printing) there are 9 colors available: red, bright yellow, orange, olive green, blue, black gray, white and ivory. Since it is ABS you ca paint it any color you want easily.
And here is the link:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/schumer-stop-plastic-guns-article-1.1335599
Alright, after researching this [expletive ommited] moron, I’ve come to the conclusion that Ghandi and Mother Theresa would have a go at her with Tasers, shuriken and the Flying Guillotine.
Crike!
I carry 3: a Fenix LD01 as a keychain light, a Fenix LD12 on my belt and an LD22 in my “murse” (5.11 MOAB 6).
I use Sanyo Eneloop rechargables in all of them.
The LD01 uses 1 AAA and is hardly larger than the battery, yet it puts out 72 lumens.
The LD12 and LD22 use 1 and 2 AA respectively, and max out at 125 and 215 lumens. They both have momentary on end-cap switches and a handy button just behind the emitter to control mode.
In cross-section pictures posted earlier, it appears that the barrel is rifled.
Okay, I’m getting a little sick of this: first graders are not “babies”, FFS. What, is it not sensational enough to sell it if they can walk and talk?
I will wait for the zombie edition to come out.
Heh.
Laws against this need to not be made, it’s cheaper and easier to for criminals to buy a gun from blackmarket dealers than to buy a printer and work at building a plastic gun, more people die from getting stabbed by plastic toothbrushes every year than stupid looking 3D printed firearms.
There’s really nothing new here.
Yes, it now requires no skill to make a nearly useless firearm – just some pricey machinery.
I can buy a block of Delron and do all this in an evening with a drill, Xacto and file.
Yes, it’s now easier – but it ain’t new.
I’m tired of all the b.s. and they wonder why we’re so stubborn.
Eagle Tac D25C. About $50 online, about the length of a tube of chapstik, penny in diameter, brighter than the sun(almost).
A sc600 mkii by zebralight, it has a nice solid feel to it. It’s more of a 900lumen flood light than a spotlight, with multiple settings that fits all situations for EDC.
This is outrageous. Yes, I know, with existing pen and ink technology, books can be copied en masse, but the mass automatic printing of books will not change anything. This will simply bring regulation of books down on legitimate book making enterprises.
I see this as a first step toward completely destroying all regulations on firearms for good, much as the first moveable type printing presses sounded the death knell for controlling books.
DR EVIL
Here’s the plan… Back in the 60s I invented a device known as a “COMPUTOR.” We sell “COMPUTORS” to everyone in the world, a “COMPUTOR” on every desktop, in every home. Kind of catchy. Anyway. We design a weapon and put the schematics on the “COMPUTOR.” Harmless enough. Then we make the schematic available to anyone with a “COMPUTOR” to print out as easily as a letter… unless–the world pays us–one MILLION dollars!
NUMBER TWO
That, too, has already happened.
DR EVIL
Shit.
OK, I have to go here…. She kept saying homicide. I kept hearing “homocide”.
Then I got this mental image of people dying by impaled objects….
Absolutely nothing to do with guns.
Mans-laughter is what I’m doing now. I really enjoy watching when she’s in front of the camera.
Geez
As I’ve said before:
1. To people who say “that’s nothing new, you could buy X material and put it into a CNC, load a program and push the green button and wha-la, you have the same result:” You are overlooking the barrier to entry of a CNC machine. Real CNC machines are big, they’re heavy and they’re expensive (unless you’re getting a well-used machine like a Fadal). Hobby CNC machines require that you know something about machining to overcome their limitations. (to the people who think that some little ChiCom bench mill retrofitted with a CNC controller is a “CNC machine”… imagine my smiling wryly as I pour myself a single malt and invite you to show me… because I’m looking forward to some quality entertainment…)
The best “production” machine that most home gunsmiths could hope for is a CNC retrofitted Bridgeport-type mill, possibly a CNC retrofitted lathe, and then you’d need a bunch of setups and fixtures to get some of the stuff he’s doing done. A Bridgeport retrofitted with ballscrews and a Centroid CNC controller could do a world of work in the right hands and fit into the corner of many people’s two-car garages. Put in a lathe, a surface grinder, some pedestal grinders, a good workbench or two with some good vises (don’t scrimp kids, buy Wilton vises), and you’re off the the races. Alas, you’re also going to need to get some real experience, and that’s going to take a couple years of devotion to your craft. So there’s a barrier to entry of machines, tooling, experience, learning and experimentation to making the first one, then there’s a barrier to entry for everyone who wants to copy that design, even if the first guy to pull it off writes down detailed procedures on what was done, why and how.
Can the home gunsmith pull off the fabrication of a firearm, either real or this one? Absolutely. But… no one without experience in working with their hands and machines is going to roll out of bed one Saturday morning with a notion that they’re going to have this successfully completed by the evening.
2. Making real guns is not complicated. It’s not mysterious. It’s not witchcraft. It’s just lots of finicky work, a knowledge of materials (especially the secret of steel) and attention to detail. All that anyone would need to accomplish this is an attention span longer than that of a goldfish… which excludes a vast and increasing proportion of the US population these days.
The reason why so many legislators and morons in the press are hyperventilating about this is that they see something so easy that even people who have no machining experience (eg, the typical “liberal arts major undergrad, law school for three years, then straight into politics” special brand of sociopathic retard) can pull this off. Just plunk down enough cash for a 3D printer, the feedstock and then run the program. Saying that “well, you can do that with a manual/CNC machine or files, or whatever” is all very well and nice, but you see, the retards in the press and Congress can’t pull this off with a CNC machine, manual machine, files or drill press. They’re too stupid. Therefore, in their minds, everyone is too stupid. After all, they’re so terribly smart. They’ve got lots and lots of advanced degrees from very august institutions of higher learning.
Any technology that isn’t understood or even remotely comprehended by the observer is indistinguishable from magic. And that’s what gun making looks like to the typical member of Congress or the press: magic. Raw steel, wood or polymer goes in one end of the Evil Gun Factory, then the orcs and trolls of the NRA Empire press these noble raw materials into their twisted purposes, aided by live sacrifices of puppies and kittens, and out the other end of the factory comes a veritable river of death! Inside is much black magic and evil sorcery, to be feared by white-wine sipping pecksniffs everywhere!
Ah, but the 3D printer… now they can see what’s going on. The print head goes back and forth, it builds up layers, and soon, an Evil, NRA-approved Baby Killing Gun[tm] emits forth from the 3D printer!
What’s going on in their shoe-sized IQ minds is “Holy crap! If I could do it, then any moron can do it! After all, I was such a miserable failure in the private sector, I had to run for Congress! And that means that millions of lazy, shiftless bums out there could do it! There might be pandemonium!”
“!!!!!”
The press, which is populated with people every bit as stupid as those in politics, only without the feral work ethic required to run for office, has come to the same realization: Even people as stupid and lazy as they are could pull this off.
This is the realization that has these very special retards filling their silk panties.
Being a total prick, I went looking. You can actually get a 15 year old used vertical machining center for about the same price as a used car – 10-15 grand. Finding a place to put an 11,000 pound machine and feeding it the 60-80A of power it needs isn’t going to be easy in a residential setting, but possible.
So, not totally impossible, but still not as simple as going to staples and buying the latest HP PlasticJet 4,000 and a bag of ABS resin.
When it gets to the point that these machines are available at retail, the politicians will be having puppies.
while you can have a plastic gun, and plastic ammo cases, how do you get away from metal projectiles?
so a metal detector would find the ammo, without which, the plastic gun is harmless!
so we dont need a new law remember the hysteria bout the original glocks?
Standing before several thousands of kids who just spent the last four years being taught to question authority and telling them NOT to question authority is either sheer hubris or grasping at straws….
Slow Joe spent a lot of time talking about voices. Maybe he was the only one hearing those voices. Did anyone notice if his audience was backing away, putting distance between themselves and the 5150 drooling on about voices?
Ever since I bought my first CZ-75 first generation in 1990, I’ve handled other brands of firearms, but I always go back to my one and only. My CZ. I even got the put-together CZ-40P(on sale for $320 at Cabelas so hard to pass up). Still a nice gun, and still a CZ even though it’s a frankenstein(remnant parts) it shoots flawless, and it’s a 40SW. I have a Browning Hi-Power 9mm that the CZ mechanism was derived from, but the CZ-75 in my arsenal beats it a tad/bit. Anyone who knows guns and have handled a CZ will tell you of it’s reputation. Not from brochures and movie props, but from reliability and overall function. If you don’t want a metal gun, get a Glock. P.S. I like Glocks too, but not as much as CZ’s.
Goddamnit… I love what the NRA and other pro-2A orgs do for us, but when I go to the NRA site and the first thing I see is MrColionNoir with the catchphrase “Coloring the Issue” being thrust to the forefront, it seems less like an effort to promote an intelligent firearms enthusiast who happens to be black than a proclamation of “hey! We got a black guy to join! We’re so culturally diverse and tolerant, huh guys? Yeah, we did pretty good. Did we mention he’s black? We did good.” It’s over-the-top. Promote him as the smart gun-and-freedom-lover he is. The viewers will probably figure out that he’s black.
God Bless the NRA, I truly mean that. Maybe work on the delivery though? I’m sure Rick Ector would appreciate it too.
I swear this all seems vaguely familiar:
“Perry doesn’t really make clear if he’d like to send just the NRA brass to Guantanamo or all 5 million of its members. He does point out, however, that the rest of the country has NRA members outnumbered by about 62:1.”
I submit that it’s the 5 million of us that he’d like to send away “to rot in their own mental squalor;” hell, why not make it a nice, historic number? Say, 6 million?
He needs to take this to the top; he can call it the “Final Solution” to the “Patriot Question.”
“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Sir Winston Churchill.
I think I just read a 100 posts of gunbroker hatered…. Arms list has no guns …..mman all of these places don’t carry 10% of what gunbroker has…. Gunbroker might be clunky as hell but I am there to buy guns. I want a website I can search 1841 Brunswick rifle and shit actually comes up. With Gunbroker I get that. Thank you GB!!!
you can keep your good looking website
Well, as my 12 year old daughter leaves to school this morning-“Cool collage daddy, when is it coming out?.” I tell her I have no idea. Even as to its release format, is it to be on TV, the big screen, dvd, or pay-per-view? I do know however, that just like my daughter, I want to see this, It seems to be Really Interesting.
I personally liked the “I can guarantee you that Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Wesson never got raped.” (or however he said it) as a good quote too.
My woman told me that I had to get rid of all my guns before we married. It was a hard thing for me to do.
Of course…. the woman that I did finally marry had no problem with my guns.
Time to get phone callin’ your reps people.
Given that the price for a decent 3d printer is pretty close to the price of converting a Harbor Freight milling machine to CNC, metal guns are pretty damned easy, too. Mind you, DefCad is supplying ready-to-print files for receivers that work with relatively low quality plastic. The newer nylon copolymers are MUCH better than the ABS they tested the AR receiver with, but still not good enough to make the Liberator out of.
Yeah, we computer people – the open source movement – have been in the trenches for a long time, now.
Did y’all know that it’s a violation of federal law for me to write a program to play DVD’s without MPAA-provided licensure, or for use on other than Window$ or Muck/OS? Yup – such a capability MIGHT be used to infringe copyright.
Even modifying a player so that I can “cut to the chase” is illegal.
This is no different. Take it from someone of Russian, Welsh and Lakota descent: waiting ’til tomorrow to fight back guarantees at best a long, hard slog and at worst total obliteration.
We must reach out, educate and bury our congress-critters in PAPER letters, lest the march toward serfdom become irreversible.
OK, it’s legal. But it still looks, oh, ineffective. Or perhaps ridiculous. Pick one.