http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/02/cody-wilsons-3d-printed-gun-project-on-hold-after-company-recalims-printer_n_1933225.html?utm_hp_ref=technology

FYI, people get all uppity when you post just a link without a paragraph explaining what it is you are linking us to. Huffington Post

 

 

Second, this guy sounds like an idiot revolutionary wanna-be. I'm all for citizens being armed, and the government fearing its people not vice versa, but he comes off as some anarcho-punk.

yeah... I'm not sure how I feel about that.... ultimately amazing (if it works), but also a bit scary. Calling it "printing" is a bit of a misnomer: it's really CAD. Anybody know what makes this any different than a computer file fed to a CAD machine?

FYI, people get all uppity when you post just a link without a paragraph explaining what it is you are linking us to. Huffington Post

 

 

Second, this guy sounds like an idiot revolutionary wanna-be. I'm all for citizens being armed, and the government fearing its people not vice versa, but he comes off as some anarcho-punk.

 

I hear you. I figured that the subject line was self explanatory.

I hear you. I figured that the subject line was self explanatory.

 

It was, it didnt need any explaining

yeah... I'm not sure how I feel about that.... ultimately amazing (if it works), but also a bit scary. Calling it "printing" is a bit of a misnomer: it's really CAD. Anybody know what makes this any different than a computer file fed to a CAD machine?

 

In one you're removing material (machining). In the other, you're adding material. It's all still CAD (computer aided design).

 

3D printing seems to be the common term for it, at least for the ones here.

yeah... I'm not sure how I feel about that.... ultimately amazing (if it works), but also a bit scary. Calling it "printing" is a bit of a misnomer: it's really CAD. Anybody know what makes this any different than a computer file fed to a CAD machine?

 

 

CAD is Computer Aided Design, what he is trying to do is use new 3d printing technology that is used in rapid prototyping today to build firearms in a CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing) process. The implications are substantial considering any large criminal enterprise can afford to buy into the technology and mass produce whatever it needs anywhere it can find a live electrical outlet. Some of these things are even able to print in metal, if nothing else it is going to get interesting.

CAD is Computer Aided Design, what he is trying to do is use new 3d printing technology that is used in rapid prototyping today to build firearms in a CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing) process. The implications are substantial considering any large criminal enterprise can afford to buy into the technology and mass produce whatever it needs anywhere it can find a live electrical outlet. Some of these things are even able to print in metal, if nothing else it is going to get interesting.[/font][/size]

 

If it ever gets to that point, I can see gun rights going to one or either extreme: either the government will attempt to outright forbid the citizens from owning firearms in a misguided attempt to stem the flow of firearms, or they will loosen laws because firearms in the hands of criminals will be widespread and the media will no longer be able to use gun rights and citizens owning firearms as an effective scapegoat. ...Well, or maybe they'll try and ban printers or heavily regulate them. Assault printers, ahoy!

. Assault printers, ahoy!

 

"Assault printers".... yup, sounds like NJ!

This is something we will have to deal with. In the race for the cheapest labor and price, materials science and automation are taking huge leaps in technology and affordability.

 

Bio weapons need the gear of your basic microbrew and a couple smart people. Explosives have been that way for a while except for less equipment and people. Mills, cnc, 3d printing, circuit printing, etc.

 

You could probably build a pretty functional explosive laden autonomous drone for fairly cheap.

 

In many ways the stuff with Iran and nukes is a slightly larger scale of the same thing.

"Assault printers".... yup, sounds like NJ!

 

What's the over/under on how many more days before some Mensa member in the NJ legislature introduces a bill to ban 3D printers in NJ?

 

 

What's the over/under on how many more days before some Mensa member in the NJ legislature introduces a bill to ban 3D printers in NJ?

 

Or a bill to outlaw digital CAD drawings of firearms and components. Sounds like a typical knee-jerk sky is falling NJ legislative solution.

First, some quotes from Cody Wilson, the guy who started this idiocy project to print a useless and unsafe gun:

 

1) "How do governments behave if they must one day operate on the assumption that any and every citizen has near instant access to a firearm through the Internet? Let’s find out," - Cody Wilson

 

2) “You don’t need to be able to put 200 rounds through it. It only has to fire once. But even if the design is a little unworkable, it doesn't matter, as long as it has that guarantee of lethality.” - Cody Wilson

 

Also, look at these guys and read this article, from Forbes.

 

I think these are cheap theatrics, and I'd rather give all my money to the Wounded Warrior Project than give a cent to these trolls.

Also, they are NOT "Gunsmiths." Gunsmiths are individuals who study the craft of firearms. When you bring your gun to a gunsmith, you pay for their skill, experience and expertise.

 

These guys are no more gunsmiths than the guy who pumps your gas is an "automobile engineer."