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    I can't wait for selective laser sintering machines to come down to prices an individual can reasonably afford. Really similar to the plastic 3d printers except the end result can be a metallic part. With one of those you could feasibly produce every part of an AR aside from the barrel.

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    At some point it becomes... GOOD BYE to asking the goverment to do what you want.
    Exactly. At a certain point it becomes an excercise in futility for them to even attempt to regulate. Think about all the materials and equipment that COULD be used to manufacture a firearm and then imagine try to regulate and control it all. It's simply not possible.

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    Given enough time anything can be regulated. Just keep on living, it's happening as we type.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nova3930 View Post
    I can't wait for selective laser sintering machines to come down to prices an individual can reasonably afford. Really similar to the plastic 3d printers except the end result can be a metallic part. With one of those you could feasibly produce every part of an AR aside from the barrel.



    Exactly. At a certain point it becomes an excercise in futility for them to even attempt to regulate. Think about all the materials and equipment that COULD be used to manufacture a firearm and then imagine try to regulate and control it all. It's simply not possible.
    The Government already does this with high end laser printers (to prevent counterfeit money from being printed) don't believe me check this https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2005/10/16 (this is 4+ years old..). This is not tin foil hattery since an acquaintance of mine got to meet the Secret Service while they performed the other task they have besides guarding the POTUS. I'm pretty damn sure high end CNC's etc have some pretty interesting things in their code as well.

    Point being if they can't regulate it they'll just buy off/strong arm/bankrupt anyone that doesn't toe the line. There's more then one way to skin a cat.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ChrisCross View Post
    The Government already does this with high end laser printers (to prevent counterfeit money from being printed) don't believe me check this https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2005/10/16 (this is 4+ years old..). This is not tin foil hattery since an acquaintance of mine got to meet the Secret Service while they performed the other task they have besides guarding the POTUS. I'm pretty damn sure high end CNC's etc have some pretty interesting things in their code as well.

    Point being if they can't regulate it they'll just buy off/strong arm/bankrupt anyone that doesn't toe the line. There's more then one way to skin a cat.
    The difference between laser printers and these rapid prototyping systems is a lot of the RP systems are homebrew from the ground up. When the entire system is distributed from top to bottom, it becomes virtually impossible to control. Think about the issues controlling illegal drugs except imagine the materials and equipment is useful for more than just getting stoned. It makes it even worse.

    Even toss out the RP machines, for someone with even minimal mechanical ability, it's relatively easy to homebrew a multi-axis CNC mill that will turn out a metal part from a hunk of billet.

    Granted it was a bunch of engineering students, but we cobbled one together from off the shelf parts and some open source software when I was in college to help with a extracurricular project. It was a little slow, due to the spindle speed but it worked pretty good for turning out small components....

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    "Defense Distributed is awaiting its manufacturing Federal Firearms License (FFL) and special occupational taxpayer stamp (SOT) before it begins testing Wiki Weapon concepts."

    http://defensedistributed.com/wikiwep-a/

    So they need a FFL and SOT if they are doing this as a non profit...

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    MIT students just revealed a startup that allows you to buy a 3d printer for a reasonable amount. Pretty cool, and applicable for our kind of designs and tools.

    http://formlabs.com/
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    Alex Jones interviews Cody Wilson (austin Tx)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=XKAaO26FAvA
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    Quote Originally Posted by thehun View Post
    This is so stupid so stupid.....LETS GIVE CRIMINALS MORE IDEAS...freakin stupid....

    You are a handful of US Senators away from being that criminal...something to think about....

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    Once durable metals can be printed, this technology will be amazing.

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    A lot of discussion about the government and regulation, but what about the quality of a printable item such as a magazine? Can they be made with same materials that mags such as PMags are made of? I guess what I'm asking is this even worth it or are the printable mags going to be Tapco or worse quality.

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