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On Mon, 05 Oct 2015 19:59:11 -0400,
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On Mon, 05 Oct 2015 19:22:44 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 05 Oct 2015 17:25:21 -0400,
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On Mon, 05 Oct 2015 17:05:51 -0400, wrote:

That might do something in 20 or 30 years but we need an answer now.
There are hundreds of millions of guns here now, if they stopped
making them tomorrow.

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Before too long someone will figure out how to make an automatic
weapon on a 3D printer. Control that.

As soon as they make a 3d printer that works with steel "ink".
Right now all they can make are the parts that don't see the pressures
and the impacts. Guys have made the frame and some other parts.
OTOH those parts that can't be plastic are generally consumables so
they are not serialized or controlled. (barrels, firing pins,
extractors, springs and such)

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Even the 3D printers of today can be used to make high precision
templates which an amateur machinist can use with jigs, routers,
Dremel tools, etc. to turn out everything that's needed. It's just a
matter of time before the plans show up for downloading along with a
couple of "how to" videos on YouTube.

If you have a lathe and a milling machine you can make pretty much
everything but the barrel, assuming you are making a rifled bore.

I made a smooth bore .22 that worked from a car antenna and a bunch of
fiberglass wrapping. It was chucked up in a cap gun with most of the
hammer filed away. The problem was the brass came out the back almost
as fast as the bullet went out the front.