http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHrlasCSa3UOriginally Posted by Mr. Goodtimes
Depending on the app, they could be using some type of leaf spring or a wave washer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHrlasCSa3U
Depending on the app, they could be using some type of leaf spring or a wave washer
They show all the components of the firearm on the first page of the article:
(Emphasis added)The sixteen pieces of Defense Distributed's printed handgun, including spiral springs for its hammer mechanism and a nail used as its firing pin.
That type of spring is a piece of cake for a 3D Printer.
Ooooo scary!
Zip Gun circa 2013.
"For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then he felt good about feeling bad about feeling good about it and, satisfied, drove on into the night."
-- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy --
So, is the thing a single shot? Do you have to partially disassemble it to stuff a cartridge into the barrel? The only video I can find only shows a single shot.
Yes, it is single shot. They called it the Liberator as a reference to this gun that was developed in WWII.
Yep the idea was to mass drop these to insurgents who would then use them to kill occupiers at close range and retrieve better weapons.
Tyrants fear armed peasants.
Slate's technology columnist doesn't know anything about technology:
http://www.slate.com/articles/techno...rs.single.html
"it’s conceivable that lawmakers would impose severe restrictions on the 3-D printer industry, which, of course, isn’t protected by the Second Amendment. Lawmakers could require 3-D printer manufacturers to prevent their machines from printing certain files—in the same way your DVD player can’t play movies from a different region—and impose harsh penalties for circumventing those rules. They could even make you register your printer the way you’ve got to register your car. "
Of course the 3D printer industry isn't protected by the 2nd amendment, idiot, but you're going to run into that pesky First amendment roadblock.
How exactly can a manufacturer prevent their machine from printing files that are home made? How would the printer know which 'certain files' can be made into a firearm? Oh, that's right, there's absolutely no way possible to do that. And can you name one person who has had "harsh penalties" imposed on them for unlocking their DVD player?
Register your printer the way you register your car? Again, we run into questions of the First Amendment and the constitutionality of registration schemes to exercise rights. Tell me how that's going to work out when there are printers such as RepRap which can replicate themselves...this cannot be stopped.
The fatal flaw in this knucklehead's argument is trying to apply the infancy and uncertainty of Second Amendment jurisprudence to something that is clearly protected by the First Amendment.
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Probably not.
(Although I have to admit that I didn't know about the EURion constellation until just the other day.)
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