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Related: About this forumIsn’t this gonna fuck up the gun industry a bit?
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 dealers 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
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Pholus
(4,062 posts)1. Oh well. Hopefully gunners buy it to make guns and find out it has other uses.
Then they can have a creative hobby instead of what they do now...
DavidDvorkin
(19,524 posts)2. It could fuck up much more than the gun industry
A lot.
Kablooie
(18,658 posts)3. Soon the NRA will condemn this kind of gun because of "safety" reasons.
"Safety" is a code word for loss of arms makers profits.
longship
(40,416 posts)4. These things have been available forever.
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.