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.
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graycube@lemmy.world 1 month agoAlthough metal working requires skill, but downloading and 3d printing stuff not so much.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 month ago
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 month ago
80% Glock frames only require simple hand tools.
architect@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
I think people think this kind of metalwork is difficult. It’s really not.
SolSerkonos@piefed.social 1 month 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 1 month 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.