Thanks, according to that the only thing that had been printed were some “handgun frames”.
I don’t know why this of interest to HN other than it has the words “3D-printed” in it. Maybe we can talk about how somehow 3D printers make illegal manufacturing scarier?
I mean underground illegal weapon manufacturing has been a thing for hundreds of years, so there’s nothing new here.
It’s just gone from a blacksmith pounding on metal to a machine shop operator with a lathe to a programmer with a 3D printer. Also you still need the lathe to turn a gun barrel so maybe it hasn’t even come that far...
Ok, here is how I know the entire article is bullshit. When they say 3D printed, they really mean that some parts like the trigger or the stock are 3D printed. The actual weapon still relies on steel barrels and other steel components. The 3D printed portion is often entirely insignificant and sometimes only two weapons out of half a dozen were 3d printed but the articles make it sound like all of them were and that 3D printing was the primary factor.
The article mentions this [0] synagogue shooting in Germany.
>En octubre de 2019, en Alemania, se cometió un atentado terrorista contra una sinagoga judía, en el que otras armas y explosivos, se utlizó un fusil fabricado con una impresora 3D.
Google translate:
>In October 2019, in Germany, a terrorist attack was committed against a Jewish synagogue, in which other weapons and explosives, a rifle manufactured with a 3D printer was used.
The shooter didn't need to 3D printing at all, all of his weapons (he had a complete arsenal ranging from handguns to shotguns to rifles) were made primarily made out of steel. The reason why he couldn't get through the synagogue door is that he couldn't obtain ammunition so he had to use a weak gunpowder substitute to make his own. I consider this proof that strict gun laws prevented this shooting from occurring the way he wanted.
The ignorance in this thread is mind-blowing. You most certainly can manufacture a reliable, semi-automatic, 9mm compact rifle where the only part that is not 3d-printed is the barrel and the springs. And even the barrel can be home-rifled using readily available tools from any hardware store, using 3d-printed jigs.
Now, the links you post look more like traditional Luty-style designs, albeit with some parts 3d-printed; still, regardless of whether this specific Spanish guy or the attacks in Germany used 3d-printed guns, 3d printed guns exist and you will see them show up in the news more often over the next few years. Brace yourself for the backlash, instead of closing your eyes, putting your fingers in your ears and singing "lalala you're all stupid, you can't print guns".
I don’t know why this of interest to HN other than it has the words “3D-printed” in it. Maybe we can talk about how somehow 3D printers make illegal manufacturing scarier?
I mean underground illegal weapon manufacturing has been a thing for hundreds of years, so there’s nothing new here.
It’s just gone from a blacksmith pounding on metal to a machine shop operator with a lathe to a programmer with a 3D printer. Also you still need the lathe to turn a gun barrel so maybe it hasn’t even come that far...