In the US, distributing weapon blueprints for 3D printing. Printed - and in the battle ...

One of the American companies decided to place on the Internet in the mode of paid access drawings on which you can create firearms weapon different types using 3D printing technology. The company Defense Distributed made a publication against the background of the appearance in the United States of a court decision extending the ban on the provision of materials of this kind in the general access mode.

In court, it was deemed unsafe the placement of information in the mode of general access, which would allow virtually anyone to create a firearm at home by purchasing an 3D printer.

However, in the company mentioned above, as reported by ABC, they stated that they do not violate the court decision. The argument is as follows:

The Court notes that the information cannot be shared on the Internet. But we are not sharing it in shared mode. Our content is paid. We only after payment send customers drawings or discs with relevant information.

It is noted that the number of customers is growing.

Earlier, the leadership of Defense Distributed sued the US administration, saying that the decision to ban the publication of blueprints for printing weapons on a 3D printer "violates the company's constitutional rights to do business."

In the United States legalized the storage of firearms for citizens. However, recently there has been a growth trend for Americans, who advocate tougher laws. The main reason is the increasing number of executions by firearms owners. A recent incident was shooting in Florida, where the loser “cybersportsman” (24-year-old David Katz) opened fire to kill, killing two and wounding a 9 man.

Comments

[asv363]

Drawings for 3d printing of pistols in the United States appeared a long time ago.

[Bypassed]

virtually anyone can create firearms at home by buying a 3D printer.

This is a very strong exaggeration. Not everyone can, even with drawings and programs.
Just last month, I was preparing a review for one company on additive technologies. Special thanks to the Russian VIAM - they adapted interesting material. In short, every major self-respecting company that is among the bourgeois that in Russia is developing its exclusive 3D printing technology. And a printing printer is made for a specific task and is often combined with additional equipment - for example, a device that provides laser sintering - to give strength to materials working in difficult conditions of alternating loads and temperature surges. And the materials for each process are made individually - for a specific task. So not everyone can and it’s not cheap. But to make a plastic mockup - well, it's already quite simple - is prototyping and is quite widespread.

[AID.S]

Quote: PASSED BY

virtually anyone can create firearms at home by buying a 3D printer.

This is a very strong exaggeration. Not everyone can, even with drawings and programs.

To make a samopal, you only need a couple - a triple of tools and a video tutorial Brother-2. And no printers are needed. Another thing is why ...

[san4es]

It is noted that the number of customers is growing.

... there must be suicides

[bouncyhunter]

Sanya, hi!

Quote: san4es

Must be suicides

No, tasters ...

[Engineer]

It’s ridiculous to read) I printed a plastic machine in my 3d printer and in front of the enemy with a bare backside. Yes, there are printers that print even the blades of jet engine compressors. But such a printer costs as F-35, and even more expensive. And on affordable printers to print something at least close to the samples of small arms sold in the United States, must not . This weapon is for one shot, it will only be shot so as not to be captured.

[voyaka uh]

Printers printing steel firearms cost tens of thousands of dollars. What is available for the average American. That is the problem. You can create a factory in your own garage.

[PSih2097]

Quote: voyaka uh

Printers that print steel firearms cost tens of thousands of dollars. What is available for the average American. That is the problem. You can create a factory in your own garage.

Well, let's see how many times the price tag for printed weapons will exceed the price of the manufacturer ...
let's take a simple example - a new H&K VP9 pistol in the states costs about 550 USD, and a printer with consumables is probably more than 10 dollars at times and some parts will still have to be bought, because you can't print ...

[igorbrsv]

The fact that they will print them cripples and the trunk must be taken somewhere

[voyaka uh]

Trunks print without any problems. 100 shots hold-checked. They will print, who do not have permission for weapons (not in all states they give it easily) or who want to earn extra money on sales, or all kinds of self-taught designers.

[igorbrsv]

In principle, I saw the rollers, but the barrel probably needs to be modified somehow, otherwise it will turn out like when casting. This will also require a lathe, plus experience in metal processing

[voyaka uh]

The point is that you don't need to modify anything for the barrel. The first bullet makes the "polish" of the inside of the barrel.
Only the bolt part is polished, if necessary. 3D printers give micron accuracy. At the same time, all kinds of internal shells and metal stresses are excluded.

[igorbrsv]

With micron accuracy, there will be bucks. Plus the cost of the powder. As I understand it, grains of the same size should be

[voyaka uh]

Not always powders. There are rods rolled into rolls. The laser melts the tip and drips a drop of the right size into the right place.
The weapon is a side scandalous case. But in micro-mechanics, jewelry 3-D completely displace all other methods.

[igorbrsv]

I did not know about this technology. I'll see. And it’s cheaper to print at home.

[san4es]

Quote: igorbrsv

.... the barrel probably needs to be improved somehow, otherwise it will turn out as when casting ... plus experience in metal processing

[igorbrsv]

So Makarom and 3D printer to no one

[would]

Affordable, but completely unnecessary. Those who need it despite the legislative ban will buy illegal and it will cost much cheaper and safer than setting up an entire, most likely illegal workshop in a garage in such a state. The rest will buy a legal barrel which in many states they issue extremely easily and without shooting (emnip in only two states still shoot pistols) and at the same time the quality is really factory, with a normal factory barrel. Only a slightly traveled and wealthy enthusiast will set up a workshop at his place.

[igorbrsv]

. This weapon is for one shot, only shoots

Maybe that's the calculation? The roof went, printed a gun, ran to the police station to commit a terrorist attack and BACH !!! Unidentified corpse

[Snail N9]

Yeah, I "unsealed" the barrel for a submachine gun cartridge ....

[igorbrsv]

The main problem is just that. You're right

[Dormidont]

The notorious 3D printer has become a fetish for the layman, not a damn thing in the technology of manufacturing weapons. Although, a couple of stores may shoot

[igorka357]

What a couple of stores, a print printer of this level is worth "not downed Boeing", and only a couple of dozen people in the USA can afford it!

[RUSS]

Print, print , you can’t avoid a civil war, you’ll be able to crush each other

[Fat]

In Russia, drawings for the manufacture of weapons from paper and cardboard are publicly available only-paper.ru, who are interested can download both Kalashnikov and Glock 17. At the same time, the cardboard M-16 will never become a real weapon.
Workable Kalashnikov is much easier (and much cheaper) to buy than to print on a 3D printer.

[just exp]

no simpler, a simple citizen without connections in crime will not be able to buy even a sawn-off shotgun.
and anyone with money can buy a 3D printer.

[Fat]

Quote: just EXPL

Anyone who has money can buy a 3D printer.

Criminal connections? In Russia, anyone who has money CAN buy a weapon, even a traumatic one. And an ordinary citizen (without surplus funds) has enough hardware store to prepare a "samopal".

[just exp]

Well, with permission, you can buy normal weapons from us. but at first smoothbore.
and without it, injury is not the easiest thing to buy.

[Archivist Vasya]

I have no idea how this 3D printer works, but even if you imagine that it rivets an automaton from iron bars by some miracle, then what will it shoot with? Patricks need to be bought separately, and in general the reliability of the whole structure is in doubt ...

[Dead duck]

Quote: Engineer

It’s ridiculous to read) I printed a plastic machine in my 3d printer and in front of the enemy with a bare backside. Yes, there are printers that print even the blades of jet engine compressors. But such a printer costs as F-35, and even more expensive. And on affordable printers to print something at least close to the samples of small arms sold in the United States, must not . This weapon is for one shot, it will only be shot so as not to be captured.

as a rule, parts that are slightly prone to physical activity print, the rest is metal.
and plastic is different.
but mostly it is for "playing", people are well aware that it is like a disposable toy.

[Dead duck]

In court, it was considered unsafe to post in public access information that would allow virtually anyone to create firearms at home

oh, these fairy tales .... oh, these fairy tales ...
just no one wants to lose money for selling weapons

[igorbrsv]

On a regular 3D printer with plastic, even the layout is difficult to print. And printing by metal powder with laser sintering is not every company will pull on such a machine, especially for fun, because at best this weapon will be fired once, and then cripple

[voyaka uh]

You have no idea how much these technologies have developed in the West, and how much the prices of the printers and their materials have fallen.
This weapon shoots no worse than usual. And manufacturing accuracy exceeds machining.

[Archivist Vasya]

Oh, I’m messing up ... they’ll come up with the same - a 3D printer Do you also offer cartridges for the machine? With laser sintering, they are also torn in the printer.

[Altona]

Quote: AID.S

To make a samopal, you only need a couple - a triple of tools and a video tutorial Brother-2. And no printers are needed. Another thing is why ...

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Anonymized weapon is a criminal's dream. He is not in any bulletproof library.

[Kibl]

Let’s let yourself type! If fast food is in your head instead of a brain, then what can you get from them! The more they shoot each other, the Russian VKS will have to spend less ammunition!

[Disorder]

Directly and placed drawings with all tolerances and landings?
The weapon uses a variety of metals, with different physical parameters. I doubt that it will be possible to get by with one printer, and if you can get by, then such a printer will cost as much as an arsenal of a motorized rifle company. Besides. It’s not enough to print, we still have to collect it.

[Topotun]

What is fuss about? In the states there are no problems with the acquisition of the trunk (including non-legal). And printed trunks are in no way cheaper than normal ones. And the percentage of normal trunks printed in comparison with the shaft is scanty ....