Gonna put a wager that some of the loony anti-gun liberals will take the plans, and hack the designs so the gun will blowup in the shooter's face.
They're not nearly that smart. If they were, they wouldn't be antis.
-Mike
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Gonna put a wager that some of the loony anti-gun liberals will take the plans, and hack the designs so the gun will blowup in the shooter's face.
Aha! so we just need ammo control, not gun control!
First of all the Liberator was a manual single shot disposable .45 that was designed to help the resistance get bigger guns by using the small, single-shot. It stored a few rounds in the butt as shown but was a single shot to be sure. Kill an enemy so you could take their more serious gun was their job. I've had the chance to shoot one and it was unpleasant to be sure as you might imagine. There's not much to them but they did the job.
Isn't that what we're experiencing right now? Someone is controlling ammo and it's not me!
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I won't be surprised if the next round of the gun control "debate" focuses on trying to control ammunition. Many anti-gunners probably won't care and will still try to do things like ban standard capacity magazines even though they can be printed. But the anti-gunners that are true believers in their cause will probably refocus on ammunition.
I think we've been winning the arms/technology race. First they tried to ban "saturday night specials" - that failed (except in MA sort of ), then the next low hanging fruit was "assault weapons" - that battle is still ongoing but leaning in our favor. The next low hanging fruit will probably be ammunition.
Screw the plastic stuff, If you have an extra $600K laying around buy one of these.
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...He's not trying to see these mass produced. He wants to make a point....
It's a step in a very positive direction for gun rights. It's not about how awesome a gun it is. It's about people being able to buy a printer at Staples, which go on sale in stores next month BTW, take it home and press a button. Viola, gun.
It's about access, not the implement. There vast majority of people have no idea how to fix a squeaky door hinge, let alone machine an 80% lower and assemble an AR. Everyone knows how to use the print button.
the future still holds protection guys. Once we get some printers , the files are the easiest to track down. possibilities are endless.
It's worth noting that the printers he's using for the new Liberator [as well as his printed AR lowers and mags] is incredibly different from what is available to the average person, or will ever be available.
WARNING FELLOW PATRIOTS: Please do yourself a favor and review the AOW (Any Other Weapons) provision of the National Firearms Act prior to printing this weapon. In its current form, the barrel in the CAD file appears to have a smooth bore. Printing a weapon with such a barrel could be interpreted by the ATF as “creating an AOW”, which is an act requiring special registration, and possibly even possession of a Federal Firearms License. As trivial and arbitrary as this law may seem, it’s not a law you want to be be caught breaking.
It's worth noting that the printers he's using for the new Liberator [as well as his printed AR lowers and mags] is incredibly different from what is available to the average person, or will ever be available. Extrusion printers are great toys, but that's all they can produce. His designs are meant for SLA machines, which use a laser to basically weld the plastic in order to print. These machines have heated print chambers and larger platens, as well as exceptionally expensive motors. Maintaining them is a giant pain in the balls, and if you don't use them regularly they quickly fall into disrepair.
It's worth noting that the printers he's using for the new Liberator [as well as his printed AR lowers and mags] is incredibly different from what is available to the average person, or will ever be available. Extrusion printers are great toys, but that's all they can produce. His designs are meant for SLA machines, which use a laser to basically weld the plastic in order to print. These machines have heated print chambers and larger platens, as well as exceptionally expensive motors. Maintaining them is a giant pain in the balls, and if you don't use them regularly they quickly fall into disrepair.
If you don't work in development, you will likely never really consider owning one. Their prices will come down, but never to the level of omnipresence. He knows this - he's not trying to see these mass produced. He wants to make a point - free men are governed by consent. When they stop consenting governments stop.
If someone really wanted to be a bastard, they'd make CAM toolpaths freely available. Then you could pick up a mill and lathe on Craigslist, and retrofit them to run on CNC for less than it would cost to buy the printer he uses. With that it would be relatively straightforward to manufacture reliable weapons. Of course, either of these would require genuine levels of intention.
The bottom of the line $30 ink jet printer you can go out and buy tommorow at walmart would blow away (speed and quality) the first ink jet printers that were over $1k.This, no one here will ever be making these things unless they have a 100K+ for a machine. At that price just buy some old mill/lathe equip and make something real. This is making a point only, real prints for real guns are already out there and have been for a very very long time.
One evening late last week, a Wisconsin engineer who calls himself “Joe” test-fired a new version of that handgun printed on a $1,725 Lulzbot A0-101 consumer-grade 3D printer, far cheaper than the one used by Defense Distributed. Joe, who asked that I not reveal his full name, loaded the weapon with .380 caliber rounds and fired it nine times, using a string to pull its trigger for safety.
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Joe’s printed gun contains a few more pieces of metal hardware than the original Liberator. Rather than print plastic pins to hold the hammer in the body, for instance, he used hardware store screws. Like Defense Distributed’s gun, the Lulz Liberator also uses a metal nail for a firing pin, and includes a chunk of non-functional steel designed to make it detectable with a metal detector so that it complies with the Undetectable Firearms Act. The rifling that Joe added to the barrel is designed to skirt the National Firearms Act, which regulates improvised weapons and those with smooth-bored barrels.
Cheaper and easier to visit the Home Depot. They have all the parts to make full autos there.