Getting a proper industrially manufactured firearm has never been easier.
The paranoia around Ghost Guns is more an expression of the gun regulation movement’s impotence.
If you want a gun in this country, and you’ve got more than a couple hundred dollars, you can get one.
arctanthrope@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
not much more difficult to make a much more effective gun out of stock metal (or so I’ve heard), but they don’t mandate government surveillance on the personal property of every person who owns a welding torch
graycube@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Although metal working requires skill, but downloading and 3d printing stuff not so much.
SolSerkonos@piefed.social 8 hours ago
That kind of metal working? Just to make a dogshit pipe gun? Really doesn’t require a ton of skill. Probably more than using a user friendly 3D printer but probably less than a fiddly one.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Making a full on machine gun is literally one of the original cottage industries. They’re hard to design but the actual fabrication can be so dumbed down that you can make it out of non un-common household tools with minimal skill.
Some of the tricky bits are making the weapon fire slower, so it doesn’t jam or get so hot rounds fire before they’re actually in the chamber. Or just keeps firing because releasing the trigger wasn’t enough to keep the recoil from keeping it going.
If your goal is to give everyone in the UK too young, old or woman to draft a machine gun to make the Germans regret invading, then a horde of cockney 8 year olds with uncontrolled machine guns and poor trigger discipline is certainly a choice.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
From what I’ve seen, 3d printing a firearm isn’t worth the trouble. Especially when you can get 80%'s and finish them with a drill press.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
80% Glock frames only require simple hand tools.