First 3-D printed gun M1911

[Mike Serpa]

Read more at http://www.pcworld.com/article/2062...rinted-metal-gun-blows-through-50-rounds.html

Edit: should read 'first 3-D printed metal gun'

 

[AndyHall]

I don't think I've seen 3d metal printing before.

 

[TerryB]

They should get a 3-D printed man to fire it.

 

[Union_Buff]

They should get a 3-D printed man to fire it.

Nice one Terry

I have read about these printed guns before and the concept is very interesting.

 

[Mike Serpa]

I don't think I've seen 3d metal printing before.

I've known about this gun since five minutes before I posted this. Seriously, NASA is working on 3D printed food. 3D printed clothes are coming our way, too. I first saw 3D printing in the early 1990s when I was working at a national research laboratory. A plastic part appearing before my very eyes!

 

[AndyHall]

There is also 3D printed organic tissue, that could at some point lead to transplant material.

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

I don't think I've seen 3d metal printing before.

I saw some (actually a little Iowa class battleship) at a seminar at the Ohio Historical Society not long ago. The company that did the printing was actually there because they had 3D-printed a mummy's skull based on CAT-scan data for a facial reconstruction, but they also had a number of other examples of what such a printer could do. I'm not sure if the metal was pewter or not, but it was at least something similar.

 

[Bob Owen]

Actually CNC machines produce much better guns at a faster pace and much cheaper.

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

(a friend of mine also just got himself a 3D printer and warned everyone that they would be getting little plastic trinkets for Christmas)

 

[101combatvet]

I hope their FFL is for manufacturing and not just selling.

 

[Southron]

The British "Anti-Gun/Anti-Freedom" crowd is going berserk about printed guns. The cops did a major raid on a company that had just installed one of those printers and instead of finding people making guns, they found people just printing ordinary plastic toys.

One thing the Anti-Gun/Anti-Freedom Zealots have done is by outlawing pistols and reducing the number of guns in the country is that that now Britain has the highest crime rate in the industrialized world. They have also outlawed "Self-Defense," so if you are attacked and resist-then you are just as guilty of breaking the law as your attacker.

The British Anti-Gun/Anti-Freedom Zealots are living in a "Never-Never Land" because they try to claim that they have a "Civilized Society" while the Barbarians in their society attack, rape and rob the regular law abiding citizens on a regular basis.