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2016 Postmortem

busterbrown

(8,515 posts) Tue May 7, 2013, 01:12 AM May 2013

Gun nuts are gonna spend their next several paychecks on of these 3 dimensional printers rather than going down to their local red neck armament dealer’s store..

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/06/3-d-printed-gun-available-for-download-after-firing-first-shots/

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Isn’t this gonna fuck up the gun industry a bit? (Original Post) busterbrown May 2013 OP

It could fuck up much more than the gun industry DavidDvorkin May 2013 #2

These things have been available forever. longship May 2013 #4

(4,062 posts)

1. Oh well. Hopefully gunners buy it to make guns and find out it has other uses.

Tue May 7, 2013, 01:27 AM

May 2013

Then they can have a creative hobby instead of what they do now...

(19,475 posts)

2. It could fuck up much more than the gun industry

Tue May 7, 2013, 01:31 AM

May 2013

A lot.

(18,634 posts)

3. Soon the NRA will condemn this kind of gun because of "safety" reasons.

Tue May 7, 2013, 02:02 AM

May 2013

"Safety" is a code word for loss of arms makers profits.

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4. These things have been available forever.

Tue May 7, 2013, 02:32 AM

May 2013

They're called Zip guns and they've been around for as long as there have been guns with easy to buy cartridges.

Here: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=zip%20gun

And here's the Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_firearm

You don't need a 3D printer to make one.