So how many idiots jumped on this one as an actual threat to our safety? Well, let’s see.. the government, media and even the citizens that have been brain washed by the government and oil conglomerates. Because remember, plastic is a waste by product of fuel production. Now I will try and explain this simply for all the students out there. A gun made of plastic is just plain silly. What happens to the barrel after it shoots? It melts and will cause a jam and quite possibly explode. Oh but wait, you can only fire one round, a very small round at that. The barrel is also foolishly short but can’t be made longer. So the accuracy will be like throwing a stone at someone. Not to mention who will feel intimidated by a gun that looks like it was made of building blocks. Finally, the cost of a 3D printer really restricts the individuals that could make one. Thousands for a good one, or you could maybe just buy an illegal firearm of the street for less. People really are gullible for thinking this is an issue when one can make a crossbow or crockpot bomb that can cause more destruction. I love laughing at the gullible sheep. —A.R.
This article appears in May 23-29, 2013.
The 3D printers are making for interesting conversations in the library world. But the 3D guns are circumventing Canadian law as it stands. Unlike the States, you can’t legally buy/make parts up here in the same fashion.
Excuse me, I got to go make a 3D printer slug for the pop machine…
VICE had a decent mini-doc about the guy in the states who is causing concern…he was shown firing like 1000 rounds out of that piece of plastic, so you are just plain wrong. Glocks are all made of plastic, FYI. They seem to kill people just fine.
Giles is correct. There is a world of difference between a Conquistadors harquebus and a Kalashnikov.
Between Bleriots monoplane and an F-22 Raptor. Between Nelsons Victory and an Virginia Class SSN.
Technologies , especially weapons technologies, consistently evolve, adapt and improve. Someone makes a new type of ballistic body armour, the patent isn’t yet dry before someone has a new wadcutter round that can penetrate it. So, the problem may not be worth panicking over yet. But the pandoras box has been opened.
I remember when the Glock first came out – the primary concern was that this was a handgun tailor made for terrorists and hijackers. Didn’t work out that way. First buyers were military and law enforcement. Then it spread to the civilian market and from there to the criminal class. It has racked up an impressive body count to be sure, but mainly because of it’s ease of firing and accuracy – not the fact that it was made of polymers that could defeat metal detectors.
Thing isn’t a sniper rifle, and based on your inaccurate wordy effluent alone, it could still be used to kill at least one person at a reasonable distance.
Watch OB shit himself/herself once confronted by someone with a gun… Are ya’ gonna’ ask, “Is that plastic?” as your face blows off to one side…
That logic is like, “Only gay guys get AIDS”.
The spacktard who designed the plastic handgun getting all the press calls it “The Liberator”
In W.W.II, the American O.S.S. commissioned this weapon with the same name, for potential distribution through occupied Europe:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mde4pgoW…
Small and crude in the extreme, it was called a “gun that you use to get yourself a better gun”. There is no evidence that it was ever used.
Fuck the gun, we’re making better strides every day…
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/piz…
I want a neon 3-D plastic baseball bat instead.
The last video i saw, the plastic gun shot 9 shots through a rifled barrel without showing any wear. And it was printer on one of the nnewer $1800 3D printers.
Gotta a link. But I do love people who think they know firearms and don’t have a clue. People still think Glocks are an all plastic guns. The barrels and coils and some other parts are steel. The frame is a special polymer to reduce weight to about half that of its kin (Hi-Powers, Sigs, Barrettas, etc).
Very interesting book, for those who wish to learn more about Gaston Glocks brainchild:
http://www.amazon.ca/Glock-The-Rise-Americ…
Ivan – I just heard the Religion of Peace has block ordered 3,000,000 3D printers, how do you spell coincidence?
Seriously, this will cause airport security nightmares and undoubtedly result in more costs and delays, unless you fly El-Al.
They’ll probably demand a religious artifact tax exemption, same as with box cutters, machetes and weapons grade plutonium.
Does this plastic gun shoot marshmellow bullets? Mmmmmm…marshmellow bullets.
Ivan’s back! o/ (I know in a sense you never left, but still.)
Armed with real guns, this is how the police in England deal with terrorists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrXl9UEB-tE
The firing pin is still required to be metal.
Wonder if it’s big enough to set off a metal detector…
I wonder if the officers will have to undergo sensitivity training for their latent “islamophobia”?
More ‘armed bastards”, less grief counsellors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Us7ygIUII
Well the solution is painfully obvious to The Captain’s eyes…
We just need to arm everyone else with REAL guns. These plastic knock-offs won’t stand a chance against the real deal. That’ll put down this little issue before it becomes a problem.
BroTim, the issue in the states is that only one piece of the gun has a serial number. All the other pieces you can buy online with absolutely no red tape. As far as the law is concerned, the gun is only the bottom part with the serial number-the rest is easily and legally obtainable by anyone of any age. It is that specific part the guy is making on the 3d printer. The issue isn’t that plastic guns can get through security, the issue is that this makes gun control irrelavent. When every other part, no matter what the material, can be ordered on the internet you only need to manufacture one part of the gun and ‘Bam’…AR-15
Yeah but why go through all that hassle when you can buy a gun on the corner or in a bar for $50.
And please don’t confuse registration with gun control. Criminals do not register their weapons.
Yeah, man.
I just invested in a 3D printer and have printed off a 16″ cock, purely in the interests of science you understand.
You ride that giant cock.
http://dailypicksandflicks.com/wp-content/…
Ya, every part of a glock is plastic. Bull fucking shit.
Here is that documentary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=…