National An AR-15 made at home? With 3D printing, 'the downloadable gun' becomes available August 1

[Joe Link]

An AR-15 made at home? With 3D printing, 'the downloadable gun' becomes available August 1

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[Brian Vedack]

Pass.

 

[bolus]

golf clap. welcome to 2013 USA today. You do realize that 3D files to print or CNC machine a whole variety of existing firearms have been available for years right? oh no?

Before that they had this stuff called paper that had technical drawings where a person called a machinist could take a piece of metal and work it into a firearm receiver based on what the paper said. You might want to look up the industrial revolution, USA today.

(I think @Joe Link just posts these stories as an example of how stupid the media has become)

 

[Ura-Ki]

Even better, we have folks gifted with the engineering bug who through talent, experimenting, trial and error, create some of the greatest firearms of all time, been doing it like this for the last few hundred years!
Besides, the machines needed to print in metal are super expensive, not to mention hard to find and even harder to use!

 

[11Charlie]

I didn't even see a AR-15 in the article

 

[Laughingman]

Its not like you can 3d Print the entire semi auto firearms, unless you have access to specialized metal 3d printers (which start at 100K)... Barrels, bolt and bolt carriers are still largely the realm of subtractive manufacturing at the moment. And even then the path of least resistance is a Decent CNC machine (10K entry price)

 

[cigars]

USA Today also brought us the tactical chainsaw accessory for the AR-15. Is anybody really surprised by their crackerjack "journalists"?

 

[Stomper]

golf clap. welcome to 2013 USA today. You do realize that 3D files to print or CNC machine a whole variety of existing firearms have been available for years right? oh no?

Before that they had this stuff called paper that had technical drawings where a person called a machinist could take a piece of metal and work it into a firearm receiver based on what the paper said. You might want to look up the industrial revolution, USA today.

(I think @Joe Link just posts these stories as an example of how stupid the media has become)

Naw, he's just trying to get his "anemic" post count up!!

 

[Diamondback]

USA Today also brought us the tactical chainsaw accessory for the AR-15. Is anybody really surprised by their crackerjack "journalists"?

Imagine what they'd say about an AR with a Tac-Sac and Dickbrake... LOL

 

[albin25]

USA Today also brought us the tactical chainsaw accessory for the AR-15. Is anybody really surprised by their crackerjack "journalists"?

Allll righty then! Now all we need to find out is....
.......... who here can 3D print a tactical chainsaw?


The main problem I see with a pistol of the type shown in that article, is that a criminal attempting to use one, would probably need to shoot his victims immediately upon confronting them in a dark alley....
....just to get them to stop laughing.