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30 cal slut
10-03-12, 16:09
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/10/stratasys-followup/




Direct digital manufacturing company Stratasys may have pulled the lease on a 3-D printer rented out by a group of unlicensed internet gunsmiths. But they’re all for making money by printing guns. According to internal sales documents acquired by Danger Room, Stratasys is working with some of the world’s top firearms-makers today.

According to those company documents, two “representative customers” for Stratasys’s 3-D printing machines include Knight’s Armament Company — which makes gun grips and produces its own line of firearms — and Remington Arms, the country’s largest producer of shotguns and rifles.

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chadbag
10-03-12, 18:54
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/10/stratasys-followup/

I know a guy who has a 3-D printer. Not necessarily that brand. We've talked about making some gun parts with it as an experiment. We talked about making an AR lower as an experiment personal use.

Maybe one of these days. He's busy making money hand over fist with nano-particle technology he has developed as well as doing things like small drones and stuff that some people are interested in and I am perpetually busy.


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