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I hope they recycled them into new filament so someone could make more ghost guns to turn in.

It's gunception.
lol after that happened and got in the news they put out a press release saying they wont accept them next time
You know some asshole was out there getting ready to print like 1000 of them for the next one
 
Finally getting around to moving my networking gear into the networking cabinet, which means translating a bunch of machine pan head wall mount screw spacing into Leviton push-pin spacing. Made a parameterized dildo that will let you pick the standoff spacing for the pan head screws, and any index in the leviton hole spacing array (which occur at .5, 1, 3.5, 6.5, 7, 10, 12.5, 13 inches from the left-hand wall, or 1" apart vertically).

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Printing up a prototype right now to test, but it's just an adapter dildo, I'm not worried that shit won't fit or anything. Probably put it on thingiverse later.
 
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I wonder how long that'll last once someone uses one to do something untoward.
I appreciate entrepreneurship. You cant actually filament print a gun though. I mean, you could go buy a bunch of cap guns and spray paint them black and see if they'd take them at that point. Call it upcycling.
 
I appreciate entrepreneurship. You cant actually filament print a gun though. I mean, you could go buy a bunch of cap guns and spray paint them black and see if they'd take them at that point. Call it upcycling.
I mean, not the whole thing, but you can print a pretty large subset of the whole thing.
 
I mean, not the whole thing, but you can print a pretty large subset of the whole thing.
How much of a gun is the gun part of a gun. The age old question.

If you ask the ATF apparently owning a bunch of random parts qualifies as a "constructive firearm."
 
How much of a gun is the gun part of a gun. The age old question.

If you ask the ATF apparently owning a bunch of random parts qualifies as a "constructive firearm."
If you're gonna get nitpicky about it, the "Liberator" is a 38, printed from ABS with the exception of the firing pin, which is a nail.

So, I'd go so far as to say, it's pretty much the whole enchilada.
 
If you're gonna get nitpicky about it, the "Liberator" is a 38, printed from ABS with the exception of the firing pin, which is a nail.

So, I'd go so far as to say, it's pretty much the whole enchilada.
Even the barrel?

I was thinking effective weapons, not single shot 38s

Cause like at that point, you can use a pipe like that dude in japan.
 
How much of a gun is the gun part of a gun. The age old question.

If you ask the ATF apparently owning a bunch of random parts qualifies as a "constructive firearm."
"a bunch of random parts" isn't even the limit. If you build one part that converts an AR into a full auto then that one part is a rifle and requires a license to own.
 
Well, it varies anywhere from AR lowers (seen 'em in ABS) to single shot 38s (yes, even the barrel).
Yeah I've seen the AR lowers, they dont hold up well and I know that's the "firearm" in law, but the only thing inside it is the trigger and mag well. You aren't going to produce a high quality firearm is all I'm saying. You could buy a CNC mill and make em all day I dont know the fear of 3D printers.

Philosophically this is almost a fear of knowledge.

Like my landlady locked herself out once and I picked the lock with two wires I had in my trunk and she was like you shouldnt be allowed to know how to do that... I was just like ok but... I got you in.

This idiotic notion that having potentially dangerous knowledge endangers anyone is so laughable.
 
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Yeah I've seen the AR lowers, they dont hold up well and I know that's the "firearm" in law, but the only thing inside it is the trigger and mag well. You aren't going to produce a high quality firearm is all I'm saying. You could buy a CNC mill and make em all day I dont know the fear of 3D printers.

Philosophically this is almost a fear of knowledge.

Like my landlady locked herself out once and I picked the lock with two wires I had in my trunk and she was like you shouldnt be allowed to know how to do that... I was just like ok but... I got you in.

This idiotic notion that having potentially dangerous knowledge endangers anyone is so laughable.
People make AK-47s out of shovels. Getting all ammosexual about it as if I give a shit what you do or how wrong you think I am is really beside the point. I don't care, I just think it's funny.
 
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People make AK-47s out of shovels. Getting all ammosexual about it as if I give a shit what you do or how wrong you think I am is really beside the point. I don't care, I just think it's funny.
I love talking about gun stuff. I feel like I get judged alot because I'm always at 11 :/ and I cant break it and... whatever
 
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Try #1 was a failure on the SMC adapters.

I needed some counter-sink around the holes for the push pins to go through. So, that's on the printer now, after adding a recessed rim of about 1/16" for the pin bushes to sit inside of.
 
cool, got the issue ironed out:
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The bushes fit in the holes, the pins fit in the bushes, and everything snaps together. I should find some wall mount screws and put the router in the cabinet.
 
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