sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoThe Ghost Gun Crackdown Is Quietly Threatening the Future of 3D Printingtech.yahoo.comexternal-linkmessage-square73linkfedilinkarrow-up1364arrow-down13
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minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 days agoYou can’t actually print a working gun out of plastic, you need metal parts. People think 3D printers are Star Trek replicators.
minus-squarebaldingpudenda@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days agoI saw a YouTube vid on 3d printing guys building glock based guns. Anything that actually took pressure (barrel, springs, extractors, etc) were store bought metal parts.
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agowell duh. There’s a reason guns are made of metal.
You can’t actually print a working gun out of plastic, you need metal parts. People think 3D printers are Star Trek replicators.
I saw a YouTube vid on 3d printing guys building glock based guns. Anything that actually took pressure (barrel, springs, extractors, etc) were store bought metal parts.
well duh. There’s a reason guns are made of metal.