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0 pointsyellowapple3y ago0 comments

> It won’t change in the US for a very long time.

Right, but there are other places besides the US. Those are the places where 3D printing (and home manufacture in general) is a more viable threat to their attempts at gun control.

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kube-system3y ago· 1 in thread

Agreed. Although I don’t think the 3D printer is much of an advantage in countries with strict gun control. In those places, building the gun is the easy part. The hard part is primer (and to some degree, propellant).

For instance, the guy who just shot Abe. What he built was more of a hand cannon, because it’s very difficult to make proper cartridge style ammo without factory made precursor components. If your ammo technology is limited to cannon technology, that’s the best you can build anyway.

yellowappleOP3y ago

> What he built was more of a hand cannon, because it’s very difficult to make proper cartridge style ammo without factory made precursor components.

For now, yes. A year or two from now? I would be entirely unsurprised to see CAD files to 3D print casings designed to be loaded with homemade black powder / arbitrary projectiles and ignited via some external source (e.g. an automotive spark plug).

Even ignoring that possibility, the fact that some guy with a homemade electrically-ignited handcannon killed the leader of a country with some of the strictest gun control laws is itself a nail in gun control's coffin.

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