[Hoot Gibson]

3D printers - something else for liberals to regulate out of business. These printers will soon revolutionize the prototyping of inventions. If we keep electing people like Obama, the U.S. may be left watching people in countries like India and China lead that revolution. In the not so distant future, it will probably become commonplace for people to download designs for all sorts of spare parts like knobs, handles, buttons, etc. and print them on a 3D printer in the privacy of their own home. This will happen, with or without government meddling because the printers are becoming almost self-replicating. Buy one, make two...

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Ctrl+P = Gun?: Printing firearms at home with 3D printers now a reality

Want to create a plastic, usable handgun in your own home? Thanks to a Texas law student, all it takes is a 3D printer.
Cody Wilson, 25, founded Defense Distributed, a nonprofit organization that has worked since August to create the world’s first entirely 3D-printable weapon, according to Forbes. The plan has come to fruition, as he announced the plan to make the blueprint for such a gun available online in the coming days.

All sixteen pieces of the weapon were made with plastic, except for a single firing pin, Forbes reports. The gun is designed to fire standard handgun rounds, using interchangeable barrels for different calibers of ammunition.

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[nky]

Plus the cost of these printers continue to drop. There will be a day these types of printers will be as common as all in priinters are in the home

[Hoot Gibson]

Plus the cost of these printers continue to drop. There will be a day these types of printers will be as common as all in priinters are in the home

I have seen kits priced at $499. The spools of plastic sell for $25-40/kg. The quality of the plastic commonly available is not going to be suitable for making complete guns, but printing large capacity magazines is already very feasible. There are several "Meetup" groups in northern Virginia that have 3D printers that they make available for members at no cost. 3D design is still not that easy, but there will be plenty of open source designs freely available on the internet.

[TheRealVille]

U.S. officials have told the Texas creator of a plastic gun that was made from a 3-D printer and successfully test-fired last weekend to take down online blueprints for the weapon.

The move by the State Department, under its authority to review arms exports, followed the posting of an online video by Defense Distributed showing a demonstration of its handgun, the Liberator. The gun, which looks like a water pistol but fires a .380 caliber bullet, was almost entirely made on a printer that can fabricate solid objects from blueprints. A regular nail was used as a firing pin.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nati...story.html

[Hoot Gibson]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nati...story.html

As expected, the tyrants in Washington have intimidated a Texas law school student into keeping his intellectual property to himself. It doesn't matter. By now, thousands of people have downloaded Cody Wilson's files, and there is no way that liberals will be able to track down all of the ever expanding number of copies of those files. Besides, designing a gun is not rocket science, and one could be made in any machine shop by somebody determined to make one. That is even more true of the high capacity magazines.

Even if the tyrants could prevent Americans who want to design and print plastic guns or gun parts who wish to do so, there are thousands of servers (millions counting torrent users) that are beyond the reach of Obama and his jack booted thugs. A 26-year old libertarian in Texas is making our federal government look foolish but that is becoming increasingly easy to do.