this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2024
52 points (100.0% liked)
technology
23377 readers
20 users here now
On the road to fully automated luxury gay space communism.
Spreading Linux propaganda since 2020
- Ways to run Microsoft/Adobe and more on Linux
- The Ultimate FOSS Guide For Android
- Great libre software on Windows
- Hey you, the lib still using Chrome. Read this post!
Rules:
- 1. Obviously abide by the sitewide code of conduct. Bigotry will be met with an immediate ban
- 2. This community is about technology. Offtopic is permitted as long as it is kept in the comment sections
- 3. Although this is not /c/libre, FOSS related posting is tolerated, and even welcome in the case of effort posts
- 4. We believe technology should be liberating. As such, avoid promoting proprietary and/or bourgeois technology
- 5. Explanatory posts to correct the potential mistakes a comrade made in a post of their own are allowed, as long as they remain respectful
- 6. No crypto (Bitcoin, NFT, etc.) speculation, unless it is purely informative and not too cringe
- 7. Absolutely no tech bro shit. If you have a good opinion of Silicon Valley billionaires please manifest yourself so we can ban you.
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
...can you even get off 3 shots with a 3D printed gun? I figured all 3d printed guns worked like 1, 2, gun breaks
The pressure-bearing components usually aren't 3D-printed, but it turns out those aren't hard to make from innocuous stuff found at any hardware store (or if you're in America just buy "spare parts" lmao).
Fun fact: There are 3d printers for metal materials too. But obviously very expensive
I was under the impression that only receivers were actually regulated in the US ? So yeah, if you can print a receiver you should be able to legally buy the rest of the gun as spare parts
Printing is probably easier but is actually unnecessary.
https://web.archive.org/web/20241211151625/https://www.80-lower.com/80-handgun-frames/
I'm pretty sure that if you order from this website you get put on a list, but if you don't have a 3D printer, a few minutes with a Dremel is all you really need.
it's just a 3d printed frame
nearly all 3d printed guns need at least some metal (afaik there's only one completely metal free, and it uses custom ammo), so why not just use Glock metal?
Yeah I'm not an expert but I think you can get lower receiver kits without them being registered as firearms, and print the upper receiver yourself?
Probably gonna change soon
Other way around. You print the lower which is just like a grip with the serial number printed on it.
I wouldn't bet on it.
not with the current supreme court
With a little patience you can make full on AR10s.
It isn't terribly difficult to make a rifled barrel with electrolysis.
It was like that at first, but these days the standard practice is to use metal bolts, barrels and inserts for the parts that have to be strong. There were and probably still are fully printed guns like you describe, but it's far more common for a 3d printed piece to be a hybrid of plastic frame and purchased or machined metal parts
Yes, the video guy even has automatic 3D printed guns.