"Gun Control was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Swalwell signed it. And Swalwell's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Gun Control was as dead as a doornail."
The notion of 3D printed guns has been considered almost mythical in the mind of the public; that is mostly due to the (very limited) hype around the Liberator single-shot pistol. However, the introduction of the Liberator was more than five years ago. Knowing how quickly technology adapts, the interested parties should have known that things would have advanced a great deal in the intervening period. Still, most are unaware of how far things have come in the field of homemade firearms.
This year, the 9mm Menendez Magazine's files went live (the name being a thumb in the eye to a gun-grabbing and (probable) child-fucking Senator of New Jersey). According to the creator and others, the plastic components hold up for about 500 rounds. In addition, an extended 30-round Extendez version design was released. Within the past couple weeks, a shorter than standard round version was tested with a legal auto-pistol and it feeds like a champ, a testament to the overall quality of the design of this family of DIY magazines. But the developers have not been working on magazines alone.
Released on the 9th of May this year was a Tec 9/AB10 frame suitable for thousands of rounds. Numerous smaller pistols have been fully developed and released. And as of now, the Crown Jewel of the project, the FGC9, is approaching its own release date. It even has accessories.
And as for updates to the dinky Liberator? It's suppressed now.
In the UK, the penalty for printing that liberator is a mandatory 5 years in prison.
Thats before you even assemble it. Literally just for a box of plastic, home made parts.
Do they have regulations on Narwhal tusks? If they don't, I imagine they will soon.
edit: at least the crime more readily approaches the sentence, what with the surprisingly nice suppression on current models https://twitter.com/KadeCad1/status/1195445273675345920
Apologies to the mods if I went over any lines, I think I steered clear by not directly hosting any files nor being expressly threatening in this general update on the field of DIY firearm manufacturing.
I think you're good. This is the caliber of topic (lol) we can talk about now that we're off reddit ? cheers!
To add some further context, as of January 1, 2019 New Jersey was supposed to have a law in place limiting magazines to under 10 rounds. It has almost 0% compliance, and the menendez/extendez family of magazines was a project that not only suits other DIY efforts but also demonstrates the utter futility of the law if anyone actually cared to enforce it.
PS - This is the search result of the Google Patents search string "firearm"
Legislators can whine and whine and whine about publicly available files for guns, when the drawings for 50 caliber machine guns and even larger anti-armor auto-cannons are just sitting out in the open, hosted by the UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
"Gun Control was dead, to begin with."
I see what you did there. Nice Christmas-y reference.
I think a new gun or two for Christmas is a great idea.
I thought so, and I'm not alone. There's apparently someone who does printed gun hip-hop who is working on a Christmas single titled Automat Krampus, there's a taste of it. The full song should be out in a day or two.
“Get you some nice filaments.” Love it!
This is what freedom looks like. If the people can print guns, then the slimy politicians and their unconstitutional anti-gun laws are no longer relevant, and that scares them much more than any number of guns in the hands of private citizens.
If you want to ban guns you have to ban tools. If you want to ban tools you have to ban raw materials, and books.
Anybody who says he “supports the Second Amendment, but…” has let that abnegatory but start him on a path that ends in a pile of blazing books.
Or blazing people.
Take our guns, we still have our tools. We will make new guns and take them back.
Take our tools, we still have our books. We will make new tools.
Take our books, we still have the knowledge in our minds. How do you propose to take that?
Hognose - (Weaponsman RIP)
The fact that any of these idiot politicians who write any of these gun control laws are showing that they cannot read or they don't understand the Constitution. If that is the case then why are they there?