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I
knew technology had passed me by when I first tried to open the
child-proof cap on my aspirin—but this is ridickilus. However, thanks
to a commenter
I learned "The headline is an
outright lie. He made a lower receiver not the entire weapon. Yet no
mention of that fact in the entire article."
Those bastids. But wait! As much as I
wanted this to be a parody, so as to sooth my feeling of inadequecy, --
this.
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 Before
you go about locking yourself in your closet, you should know that the
only printed part of the gun was the lower receiver. But, according to
the American Gun Control Act, the receiver is what counts as the
firearm.
HaveBlue reportedly used a Stratasys 3D printer to craft the part,
assembled it as a .22 pistol and fired more than 200 rounds with it.
The tester then attempted to assemble a rifle with the part and a .223
upper receiver but had “feed and extraction issues.” The problem may
not in fact be with the 3D-printed part, though, as the issues remained
when a standard aluminum lower was used.
3D printer gun designs have been floating around the Internet for some
time now, but HaveBlue seems to be the first to take it to the next
level.
[.... a terrifying thing]
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In the final analysis,
if
gun ownership in any society becomes a problem, it's because that
society has decayed to a point of no return. So, print me up a dozen.
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