Fake news, I’ve seen TV procedurals. (That’s a joke.)
I don’t know, seems you would need some expertise to make a viable cultural, but anyone can push a button to print something.
But I stand corrected!
Again, if you print a fully automatic weapon, you are violating the law. You will go to jail for 10 years.
And the extract is absorbed through the skin. It will kill you if you say, sit on some.
You can literally buy books and videos on how to machine your own firearms, and those have been around for decades. Even better, you can buy an “80% lower” which is an incomplete lower receiver. All you have to do is go finish drilling out that last 20% to make a working lower receiver. It’s unserialized and legal.
You say that, but I watched a Youtube video on how to replace a shower drain. Easy, done in 20 minutes right?
Except it took me half a day and it still didn’t work. :/
Yeah, crude blunderbuss-type guns turn out to be pretty easy to make if you can find a sturdy steel tube to use as a basis. Otherwise you might need a lathe. But of course a printed plastic gun is good for passing metal detectors, if it doesn’t explode in your hand.
The whole 3d-printed thing is a joke of an issue, though. There are supposed to be at least 265,000,000 real guns in the US. A few crappy printed ones that are more likely injure the shooter than the target are neither here nor there.
“Look around you. Can you construct some sort of rudimentary lathe?”
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Well, they are certainly more “there” than “here” right now… but only because of technological impediments that are quickly evaporating.
In the last day in this thread, people have hand-waved off designing custom viruses (“most people don’t have centrifuges”) and the efficacy of a 3D-printed gun (“gonna blow up on the first shot”). The problem is that these are simple tech issues that are either already cheap to solve (you can build a pretty nice centrifuge with a couple hundred bucks) or else is going to be solvable in the very near-term (metal-laced filaments are already becoming available). These issues seem like ridiculous science-fiction today, not worth worrying about… just like computers that weigh less than 1.5 tons.
Why worry about 3d-printed guns at all when ordinary guns are both universally available and will always be superior weapons? Because there is simply no way to sinter powder to make more reliable parts than conventional machining of solid metal. But even if by some magic a 3D-printer becomes available that stamps out Glocks, so what? Anyone can get a gun trivially as it is.
Any legislation or regulation that doesn’t address conventional firearms will have no effect whatsoever on gun violence in this country. Absolutely none. And that’s why this whole subject is a joke.
If you can afford a 3D printer, you can afford a gun.
While that’s true, you can also get access to 3D printers without actually buying one. Friends, local maker spaces, etc. I would be unsurprised to find some enterprising organized-crime types buying some nice printers and setting up shop to provide unregistered, untraceable firearms to their buddies.
Having said all that, I don’t think any of the current government attempts to nip this gun-printing in the bud are a good idea. They won’t help against big crime anyway.
People hand-waved off 3D printed viruses and guns because they don’t pose any greater threat than the viruses and guns that are already freely available.
Which would be totally illegal… and essentially the same as just getting guns and then defacing their serial numbers.
Only they’d be clunky, shitty guns.
Which wouldn’t trip metal detectors, but yep.
What is the threshold for airport metal detectors? Would the firing pin be big enough? I have titanium plates in my head and a titanium rod in my leg and it doesn’t set them off. So I guess a titanium firing pin would work?
The old school scanners worked off magnetic induction. I think the new ones basically work off density, so they notice your titanium but have resolution enough on the images to say they’re not interesting.
Interesting. Thanks.
Another question. I have a cheap $2.00 ceramic knife from China. It’s like a straight razor. Fold out thing. The only metal in it is an aluminum rivet. Would that be found passing through a metal detector?