37 Replies to “Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors”

  1. You can’t make a properly functioning gun on a 3D printer because it’s PLASTIC. I thought that bit of stupidity died out years ago.

    1. While we like to bash Elon Musk here, his Draco rocket engines are 3D printed (not by him I’m sure).
      So while I wouldn’t ride in one of his rockets and I wouldn’t fire a pistol that was 3D printed – it seems to be feasible.

      1. Not with a tabletop machine… if you had about $300k US you could purchase yourself a sintering 3D printer which prints a metal dust in a polywax matrix, which then you have to put into a sintering oven for a couple of hours.

    2. 3-D printing isn’t restricted to plastic. It’s now called additive manufacturing. It adds material, unlike a lathe for example which is a subtractive technology. Additive materials include titanium, steel, stainless steel, aluminium, and copper, cobalt, chrome, and nickel-based alloys are available in powdered form as well as precious metals like gold, platinum, palladium and silver.
      Sulzer makes high pressure pump impellers using additive techniques. Boeing makes critical parts.
      If you have the blue print you can make a Gloc using AM, including the word Austria on the casing. I don’t think the one in the picture was printed but can’t say. Some parts look machined.

      1. Personally … I wouldn’t fire a gun that wasn’t machined from hardened and tempered, high-strength chromevanadium or chrome-molybdenum steel. YOU can take the risk of shooting a 3d printed “steel” barrel … not me.

      2. “If you have the blue print you can make a Gloc using AM, including the word Austria on the casing.”

        It’s called a “slide”, not a casing. It’s a moving part and underneath the slide is a spring which circles the barrel and brings the slide back to rest after the pistol is fired.
        Springs cannot be AM manufactured. You could AM manufacture something that looks like a spring and has the dimensions of a spring, but it wouldn’t have the springy characteristics of a spring. Springs were the Achilles Heal of firearms printing. Still are.

        1. True, but I can buy a spring with the same properties, in theory.. The biggest drawback to printing a gun is the outrageous cost of a metal-capable printer. You have to print in mass quantities to make it pay.
          Catch 22: you need a gun to rob a bank, you need to rob a bank to pay for the printer to print the gun.

    3. I am not sure you can print using polymers … plastic yes, Polymers … not sure …. Anyone?

    4. *
      “You can’t make a properly functioning gun on a 3D printer because it’s PLASTIC.”

      of course you can… what you can’t do is will it to hold together under pressure
      from a modern smokeless cartridge. it’ll function just fine right up until the
      moment the primer is struck.

      then your previously intact visage is full of shrapnel.

      physics doesn’t give a f@ck about you, puny earthling.

      *

    5. Why bother? Go to a sports store that begins with Cabel…. and buy a $400 Chinese knock off of a Browning 1911. In .45 cal or 9mm. Cheaper, disposable.

  2. “…the type that can be made…”

    Yes, in Austria.

    I wonder if Austrians are permitted to own Glocks or any other firearms.

  3. This is not surprising, the “journalist” could not tell the difference between an ass…. and a hole in the ground. Never questioned why is it that guns are made of steel.
    They, the “journalists” are the last to know. If they knew anything, they would have a hard time to omit, ignore, misrepresent, distort, falsify ….. (Synonym option in yer word is of great help here).

  4. I don’t know the difference between an ass…. and a Glock but I did read (on the Internet so it must be true) that 3D guns are being made from plastic and kits can be purchased for the tricky bits as inserts – these are made from metal. The benefit is the gun has no serial number and cannot be traced to an owner.

  5. What is the pool of materials that the barrel and firing chamber have to be made out of? Is it steel, and that is it? Or would other alloys suffice?

    Now, there are two types of barrels; the big naval guns, and I believe the tank and artillery pieces have a replaceable sleeve inside the main barrel. Once the rifling is warn down, 200, 1000 shots, whatever, it is refurbished. There is the quick change barrel, in use on machine guns lacking water cooling of the barrel.

    As for 3D printing rocket engines? Honestly, how stupid do you have to be, to believe something like that? Solid fuel burns at what, 4000 degrees? What are we talking about, 80,000 pounds of thrust? 250,000 pounds? The pressures and temps are far beyond anything other than highly specialized tooling and processes.

    1. Only steel makes economic sense for barrels. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the most accurate medium weight cannons were brass but in the heat of battle their crews might forget that they needed to be downloaded, as they expanded more than iron, which might occasionally result in an exploded gun and a dead gun crew. Titanium makes excellent barrels but it is expensive and hard on tools. S&W made a nine oz aluminum J frame 38 with titanium barrel and cylinder for a while. My J frame weighs 13 oz and is verging on painful with full house 38s. If I ever get my hands on one of those titanium jobs I will be interested to see if I can shoot it without ducking.

      1. I once had a lightweight rifle with a magnesium barrel with a steel liner. Never could make it shoot straight.

  6. Well, it’s technically a true statement for a sufficiently large value of “type”. It’s not a glue gun, a staple gun, a paint gun, a soldering gun or a pastry gun.

  7. I think it’s great. Get everyone to believe 3d printers can churn guns out no problem. Those same people would believe the 3d printers capable of such are cheap and readily available.
    Even the biggest idiot would have to admit there’s no point in banning guns if they can simply be printed.
    *(please note there is a class of liberal voter that doesn’t fit the designation of biggest idiot, they’ve gone beyond that.)

    Oh and for those who say ban the 3d printers just remind them the 3d printers already out there are just printing other 3d printers.

  8. So is it an assault weapon?
    Or is it a 30-30 shotgun?

    The genius reporter must be a Bernie Bro..he’s gonna learn to shoot,yeah thats the ticket.
    Death to the tool users.

    1. “That punk pulled a Glock 7 on me. You know what that is? It’s a porcelain gun made in Germany. It dosen’t show up on you airport X-ray machines, and it cost more than you make here in a month.” ~ John McClane

  9. He is about 10% right.
    The frame (the part that is registered) is a Polymer80 frame (not Glock).
    You buy those in kit form (in the US), and have to do some machining and fitting work to complete it. Then you buy the internal fire control parts, a slide and barrel and assemble a complete gun.

    In this case, it has used a Glock slide, but look at the hand grip and you can see “P80”.
    These have zero to do with 3D printing. They are what the US media call “ghost guns” because they don’t have (and don’t require) a serial number.

    Democrats get bent out of shape about the lack of a serial number to which they attach magical properties.

  10. So how long before Trudeau bans 3D printers?

    I can see Unifor writing articles with headlines such as; To Keep Toronto Safe; To Save Women’s Lives.

  11. “and in the possession of Edwin Garcia as he was in a car illegally parked in an alley.”

    If someone is “in the car” it is technically not parked. An occupied immobile vehicle is a -standing vehicle-. The law makes a distinction. Ed Garcia will likely get off because he couldn’t be searched for cause. Since the 2nd Amendment guarantees Ed’s right to own and bear arms without infringement, he will also likely get off on any related firearms charges and have his pistol returned.
    If not, the cops and courts in Oxnard are the bad guys here, not Ed.

  12. guns could grow in trees that would not make the murder rate higher

    criminals commit crimes, it is not guns that commit crimes

    a few hours ago there was another terror attack in England the guy used a Machette

    guns are not even a factor

  13. gun legislation.
    ‘aimed’ (pun intended) @ LEGITIMATE firearms owners.
    cariminals cant get the req’d FAC because they committed a crime. #1
    yet somehow, they acquire said gadget, steal, black mkt, 3D printer (just kidding!). crime #2
    why do they acquire the firearm illegally? conversation piece (pun intended again!)? target shooting competiton?
    no and no. all answers are no.
    they acquire the firearms TO COMMIT MORE CRIMES. ie crime #3
    THREE criminal acts, but the LIEberal gun ban panic button instructions come with no mention of this.
    wtFCUK does banning ALL handguns in Tranna have to do with the above?

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