http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/145664-3d-printed-30-round-ar-magazine-brings-us-ever-closer-to-a-fully-3d-printed-gun

 

The wave of the future folks. I just hope they work the kinks out and the printer becomes affordable really soon.

I woke up this morning, went to Midway, and they are all out of polymer resin!!! I can't find it anywhere!

 

LOL

So we pool together and buy a 10k printer to print all of our... errr 15 round AR mag needs

Anyone know if the printing technology will be able to print metal? Maybe from pressed metal powder? Resin is all well and good but for a complete solution, we'll need some metal parts.

 

Unless someone can invent the super all-plastic, x-ray defeating guns the libs were ranting about a few years ago.

Anyone know if the printing technology will be able to print metal? Maybe from pressed metal powder? Resin is all well and good but for a complete solution, we'll need some metal parts.

 

Unless someone can invent the super all-plastic, x-ray defeating guns the libs were ranting about a few years ago.

 

You mean glocks? LoL

Anyone know if the printing technology will be able to print metal? Maybe from pressed metal powder? Resin is all well and good but for a complete solution, we'll need some metal parts.

 

Unless someone can invent the super all-plastic, x-ray defeating guns the libs were ranting about a few years ago.

 

Yes, there is metallic 3d printing. The machines are VERY expensive as is the metal powder you feed it.

 

A cnc machine you can stick in a billet of the right stuff and pop out something as odd as say a rifled pistol barrel runs about $125k.