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[–] andrewth09@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago (6 children)

They should put controls on lathes and mills to prevent making guns. Metal guns are a lot more effective than plastic guns anyways. /s

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

My understanding is that the metal parts are bought. The only part of a gun that is controlled legally is fine in plastic

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

This is basically how today's 3d printed guns work, but even still the gun isn't good for more then a few magazines afaik. So it's interesting as a way to create a gun that isn't serialized and the ATF can't trace, but it's not durable, and it still requires a good deal of precision engineering/cost, so its not feasible to print a truck-load and sell them for cheap.

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

The video kind of proves my point. It was janky, he fired <20bullets, and it jammed several times during the demo. Don't get me wrong, it's cool as hell, but yea not very practical for anything and certainly not durable enough to be a viable alternative to CNC/Milling.

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