3-D Printing: Law & Disorder

[Kirk Freeman]

Another interesting article on the efforts of the University of Texas law student who is the most prominent person in 3-D gun printing now.

“Download this gun”: 3D-printed semi-automatic fires over 600 rounds | Ars Technica

 

[actaeon277]

People have made guns for over a hundred years. This is just a different way to do it.

When people say the tech isn't ready on 3d, well airplanes originally couldn't sink ships. Now they can take out a city.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Not sure what to think of this portion of the interview.

“I don’t consider myself a tech guy, but I do consider myself a crypto-anarchist,” he said.

“I mean the philosophy that Tim May expressed, he predicted WikiLeaks and digital currency. [What I mean is] that the Internet and cryptography are these anarchic tools that can allow for the expanse of citizen action. We like the idea of the market becoming completely black and starving the nation-state from all the money they claim.”

 

[verv]

I took engineering in college and 3d printing is the sign of things to come imagine the cost effectiveness of printing your prototype for a lower or a pistol to work out any bugs. A lower could be printed in about 2 hours and wouldnt need any reworking it would be ready to go.

 

[U.S. Patriot]

Rapid prototyping is the wave of the future.

 

[Mgderf]

God I feel old. I still remember when mimeograph and micro-fish technology seemed futuristic.

 

[hornadylnl]

God I feel old. I still remember when mimeograph and micro-fish technology seemed futuristic.

You had to get out and hand crank your first car, didnt you Si?

 

[HoughMade]

God I feel old. I still remember when mimeograph and micro-fish technology seemed futuristic.

Futuristic- yes, but incredibly difficult to filet.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

People have made guns for over a hundred years. This is just a different way to do it.

Well, I have homemade guns that are older than 100 years, so we know it is has gone on longer than that.

Here is the game changer . . . a mouse click will some be able to get you whatever you want: 1911, AR, Thompson M1921, PPS-43, AK-74, whatever.

We just leapt over machining and tool and die knowledge.

 

[danielson]

3d printing on metal Im sure is quite expensive.

This will get regulated, like machine guns have, to where the only people who have them have paid out the ass, or are lying about it.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Are they will regulate the air how exactly?

 

[Bunnykid68]

Are they will regulate the air how exactly?

What are you trying to ask here?

 

[Kirk Freeman]

What are you trying to ask here?

How will .gov regulate clicking a mouse and printing off a machine gun?

 

[danielson]

The same way theyve regulated, you pissing on a tree.

They want it, they get it.

 

[Bunnykid68]

Are they will regulate the air how exactly?

How will .gov regulate clicking a mouse and printing off a machine gun?

The 2nd one definitely reads better then the first one.

Simple answer is they will regulate 3-D printers, they will become an NFA item that will require an even bigger tax stamp

 

[Sublime49er247]

Thanks for the post, 3D printing is very interesting.

 

[Hammerhead]

Thanks for the post, 3D printing is very interesting.

Care to elaborate, Kimosabe? Or are you satisfied now that you have your 50?

 

[Sublime49er247]

Sure I can elaborate

Care to elaborate, Kimosabe? Or are you satisfied now that you have your 50?

3D printing has unlimited capabilities. I have seen manufacturers start to use this technology to print shoes that are ultra light. I have heard of medical uses such as prosthetics, but I cant verify that. I would love to have one now but with any newer technology I will wait 5 years and let the "early adopter fee" go down. We have all seen the ability to print gun parts and some pocket size guns (not sure if they can fire).

I hope this is enough elaboration Hammerhead, if not I like to write books in my spare time. Let me know.

 

[Hammerhead]

3D printing has unlimited capabilities. I have seen manufacturers start to use this technology to print shoes that are ultra light. I have heard of medical uses such as prosthetics, but I cant verify that. I would love to have one now but with any newer technology I will wait 5 years and let the "early adopter fee" go down. We have all seen the ability to print gun parts and some pocket size guns (not sure if they can fire).

I hope this is enough elaboration Hammerhead, if not I like to write books in my spare time. Let me know.

Just checking, chief. One liners like that tend to look suspiciously like classified jumping without followup.

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