bilby
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Note who you are adressing. I used to be a gunsmith. I have made guns (legal, proofed firearms), from scratch.Note what he said--a few shaped pieces of metal.3D printed guns are shit, and not a notable threat.But it's too late for even that. Now all ya need for your crime spree are a few shaped pieces of metal and a 3d printer.
Your popular mechanics grasp of the topic doesn't grant you the qualifications to contradict me, without appearing absurd.
Yeah, nah. MI6 could do a LOT better than anything off a 3D printer.A fully printed gun is as you say junk. It could possibly make sense as an assassination weapon as the whole thing can be non-ferrous and thus only react very weakly to a metal detector.
Lovely anecdote. Irrelevant, but lovely.There's no other use, though. (Same as despite all the steps they take about keeping metal out of the MRI they didn't care one bit about my wedding ring because it's gold. The magnet showed no interest in it.)
CNC milling is completely unnecessary. A wise man once said:What the real danger is is machined guns. CNC milling has moved far enough down the scale that an advanced home workshop can turn out a fully operational gun.
"A reasonably skilled amateur with a lathe and a drill-press can make a better gun"
A highly skilled machinist (with no firearms experience, but with access to the Internet) could make a high quality gun with just the tools found in many suburban sheds.
Guns aren't particularly high-tech. some of the best ones ever crafted were made before computers even existed. I rather doubt that James Purdey Jr. had access to a CNC machine in the 1880s.
Sure, if by "decrease in performance" you mean "will blow your fucking hand off, despite being not much cheaper or easier to make than one which won't".And most of the parts could be printed albeit at a decrease in performance.
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