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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alighieri who wrote (692293)	1/11/2013 9:43:49 AM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575538

>Early 3d printer were developed at the Watson Research Center and I was directly involved with the process. Trust me...you can't make a gun with one. You can tinker with stock, receivers etc...but barrel, firing mechanics, and heavy duty metal parts have to be machined from stock metal. In any case this is never going to be the crucial problem. If ARs are illegal then they are illegal by whatever means obtainable....and that means that there is likely to always be a smuggler problem. I'd read/heard that it's possible to use a 3-D printer to create a gun that will be able to shoot one bullet, but not one that's strong enough to not fall apart after it does that. Is that true? -Z