Will 3D printed guns actually blow your hand off? Or is that just something the news media says to get people to not want to try to print them?
Will 3D printed guns actually blow your hand off?
Will 3D printed guns actually blow your hand off? Or is that just something the news media says to get people to not want to try to print them?
this question is pants on head moronic and dependent on so many factors there is no real way to answer it without more details on the printing technique, materials etc.
If you do it like a moron, yes, if you don't, no.
You almost have to be intentionally moronic at this point. Hmm, should I download AR15lowerTest2012 or ARlowerNewFinalFinal202kt2pk1
What do you mean verification failed? I nailed the captcha,, second times a charm. (looks at post, ffs) Does this mean I'm too moronic to 3D print a gun?
worst case I have heard from news is someone printed a glock frame with 0% infill and when he rack the slide the grip break off with live ammo in the chamber and his finger is on the trigger so he shot himself and survived. so yeah if you are not mentally challenged or ignore all the safety guidelines. you are fine, also plastic cracks before kaboom. so looks for the signs
I've never heard the news media claim they were dangerous to the user. The news media goes overboard painting "ghost guns" as a threat to everyone else, tho.
for a tv news segment they had someone print the original Liberator on a cheap FDM printer and of course it exploded
that's the root of those rumors
It will likely not blow your hand off if you're an idiot and mess around/don't read the readme's/etc, but it can seriously hurt you. If you know what you're doing or follow instructions to the letter you will be fine.
The liberator is outright dangerous regardless of what material you print it in. Even the creator of the damned thing never got it right, he claims it was only made to make a statement, which to an extent I can believe.
>is that just something the news media says to get people to not want to try to print them
Eight years ago they said so because the journos couldn't read the readme
I don't get why these frickers just use the 3d printer to make jigs for drilling holes into aluminium plate, instead of waiting days for some shitty plastic receiver that you can only use 10 times before it blows
are you printing the barrel or what?
You can get away with that for really small calibers like .22LR, just expect the lifespan of the barrel to be very short.
Can anybody explain to me why the printing meme is a thing when it would be just as cost effective and easy to make a replica firearm out of steel with basic hand and power tools? If one already has the knowledge on how everything works, and a 3d printed gun requires a metal barrel anyways why not just skip the plastic and make something that would last a lifetime?
Because it's simply easier to print out a receiver than to build it.
Especially because a lot of the people doing this don't have 'basic hand tools'.
>Can anybody explain to me why the printing meme is a thing when it would be just as cost effective and easy to make a replica firearm out of steel with basic hand and power tools? If one already has the knowledge on how everything works, and a 3d printed gun requires a metal barrel anyways why not just skip the plastic and make something that would last a lifetime?
it's because people who don't do a lot of construction/assembly on a reguilar basis, or who haven't been taught how to are intimidated by tools that require specialized knowledge to use correctly (like, um, measuring things) and they hear the "printer" part of 3D printing and assume that it will be easier than using a lathe or a drill press instead of constantly having to frick with things like resolution and supports and filament and whatever else goes wrong with 3D printing.
3D printing does have a lot of potential for making your plastic parts as easy to get as the metal parts, but I'm skeptical that it is a whole lot easier in either the short or the long term
because I dont want to hear the crying from those parts kit anymore. they deserve a better end
>basic hand and power tools
>costs thousands in [Current Year]
bAsIc HaNd ToOlS
lmao
I actually kindof feel bad for zoomers who will never own a hand drill because everything is prohibitively expensive in the creative/maker space now.
No, they won't. If we just keep it strictly to AR lowers, people have made them out of LEGO bricks or fricking wood. AR lowers don't take that much pressure during firing, its the upper that takes most of it.
Unless you think a “3D printed gun” is something like this, no.
Imagine the day polymer can actually take 9mm pressure.
it can, just needs to be made thicker
limited lifespan because high temperature and pressure will deform the thermoplastic.
Could it actually be possible to have a setup that is 100% non-metal that can be snuck through a metal detector? Even if the gun itself could be all polymer I think the rounds would make that a problem. Even polymer case ammo usually has a metal washer or something for support, a metal bullet and metal primer.
>wear belt buckle
>crotch magazine
>magnetic wand beeps at your belt buckle
I don't know why you're sneaking through metal detectors, I just open carry.
Metal detectors usually aren't set to go off on trace amounts of metal. I've walked through them at the airport with a couple of rounds of ammo in my pocket, purely by accident.
The newer backscatter microwave things probably would have caught those, though, and I'd be in prison for it now.
homemade firearms will perform in regards to their design, constriction and workmanship.
>does the media want me to be scared
easy question
Not if they’re made properly. You will look like you blow other dudes off though.
Building a 4.5" 22lr with the only metal being a CMMG AR 22lr conversion bolt, AR lower parts kit, and a Brownell barrel liner. Bolt can be swapped to new gats when this one shits the bed, and the cost to build a new one is only about $25.
>Allegedly
I have observed aver 500rds through a printed 9mm can that has not failed yet, exclusively on a PDW. 5 baffles in the tube and threads 1/2-28. Cost was, reportedly, about $8. Sounds like a 22lr without earpro.