A Working Assault Rifle Made With a 3-D Printer!!

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dang check this technology out ?!* wow
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Slight issue though... don't all firearms (at least I'm pretty sure this is the case in VA if not other states) HAVE to have enough metal in their construction to be picked up by metal detectors? If so this guy could be in just a bit of hot water with the BATF.
 
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Slight issue though... don't all firearms (at least I'm pretty sure this is the case in VA if not other states) HAVE to have enough metal in their construction to be picked up by metal detectors? If so this guy could be in just a bit of hot water with the BATF.
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The guy is in hot water for manufacturing a firearm without a license. The lowers on AR platforms are the registered part of the weapon and need to have identifying numbers for registering and trace.
 
i was wondering about that myself.......perhaps still in the experimental stage with authorized personal only? but wow still that kind of technology is mind blowing and can go into many directions
 
I did some more looking, apparently the guy only manufactured the lower shell. He didn't do anything on the upper or barrel, or any of the internal parts (trigger, sear, recoil spring, etc...). Still though, I think you're right, isn't the lower on AR-15s the part considered a "firearm" by the BATF?
 
Purple, you're wrong.....I don't think he's breaking any laws. This would fall in the same category as 80 Percent AR lowers. If you're making the gun for yourself and not selling it then you're not breaking any laws.

Edit: When I'm talking laws, I'm talking about Federal laws. Local laws may apply here.
 
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He only printed the lower receiver not the whole gun... although that is the part that is considered the gun
 
you can buy 3d printers online, they are becoming more and more available and reasonable. i am currently going to school for mechanical engineering technology. in high school i took a cad class where we did 3d design and then had a rapid prototyper that is a 3d printer, it was made by dimension. last semester i also took a class ( now going into my senior year of college) where we did the same exact thing. it was a 3d design class using solidworks and then we had a dimension rapid prototyper. since i built my skills in high school and have been developing them i designed my own 1911 in my free time and them modeled it on the rapid protyper (3d printer). it is some amazing technology.

this is the 1911 i designed and modeled printed with the dimension printer. the gun is a little bit smaller than full size. i made that stand out of some wood to display it cause i am pretty proud of it honestly.

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this is what it looked like in the CAD program.
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just for some more info i did not use any dimensions while designing so some thing may be a little out of proportion and its completely designed from scratch i did not use any pre made file or anything. it is not a firing gun and this particular one does not have any moving parts just purely design for visual purpose.

let me know what you guys think
 
Back when I took computer classes in college it was with chain printers, key punch machines, card readers, and with the right class and computer rights, IBM Selectrics with 300 baud acoustic coupled modems. And a computer took up the whole room. Now a smartphone has more computing power than that computer had. When do we get the holodecks and the transporters?

As for the 3-D printers, they can make metal parts too using bronze and stainless steel powders. The part made of bronze is then used as a pattern as a lost bronze casting process with the stainless replacing it in the mold. Or the bronze part can be infused with more bronze to make it solid.
 
Polymer AR lower receivers are nothing new and manufacturing your own for personal use is legal as has been explained in ptrevious posts.
 
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