12 Replies to “Defense Distributed’s Cody Wilson Explains the Printed Firearm”

  2. Yeah well I suppose this is not really surprising.
    The simple fact that the modern sporting rifles feature either cast aluminum alloy or stamped sheet steel receivers, that usable plastic receivers can be produced by whatever method.
    The main beef by the hoplophobes is that firearms can be produced outside of the normal manufacturing environment….duh…any and I mean any firearm can be manufactured in somebody’s basement or workshop. I have personaly seen Lee Enfield rifles made, in Pakistan, in shops with dirt floors and handtools…to match quality. It just takes longer than mass production.

  3. Sasquatch.. there’s a video floating around YouTube about the Swat valley in Pakistan, where they are making AK-47’s with charcoal forges, foot powered drills and hand tools. There are internet sites with the plans and step by step instructions on making sub machine guns.. the genie has been out of the bottle for centuries, but the anti gun crowd missed the memo..

  4. PLEASE SOMEBODY TELL ME WHERE TO GET THE PRINTING MACHINE !! I WILL BUY IT RIGHT NOW!!
    I WANT TO BUY IT SO I CAN PRINT my own stuff and build my own guns and other things!!
    Paul

  5. Google is your friend.I suggest a considerable period of research before laying down money.
    BTW, don’t get a MakerBot. They suck. They can be made to work, with a great deal of bodging and fiddling, but not ready for prime time.

  6. Wilson has pulled a reverse John Gault on the regulators.
    By making the manufacturing software for high cap mags and AR lower receivers available to anyone, and the technology being affordable and widely available for anyone, the banners were essentially defeated. Mag bans and semi auto bans will not be effective as someone will always be able to make them if the SHTF.
    The banners must have been insane to think they could ban the most popular widely used firearm in civilian hands today.
    Wilson is a true patriot throwing arrows into the authoritarianism of the leviathan state. We need more like him. RESIST TYRANNY!

  7. Meh. A printed lower receiver. Essentially just a bracket, that supports the functional parts of the weapon. It’s “magic”, because it’s the part that bears the serial number on a factory-made gun, that’s all. You can buy “eighty-percent” finished lower receivers (in the USA) for under $200, and finish the machining with a drill press, although admittedly, a bench-top milling machine would do it better.
    When 3D printing can make an accurately-rifled and durable barrel, then I will sit up and take notice.

  8. Wilson is making a fine point, it will go right over the heads of the controllers and fearful.
    Shame we don’t get milk in bottles anymore,however wine bottles are plentiful.
    When it comes to tools of destruction we humans have no peers, if the need arrises it is appalling how many household products can combine to satisfy the urge.
    Appearing to support the power-hungry whilst collapsing their aims is better than open conflict, power seekers are paranoids.

  9. Yeah well when I wuz in that neighbourhood, Peshwar was the centre for such activity….and the going rate for a Lee Enfield as 4 AK47’s…
    Prior to WW1, British Army musketry had a standard of 20 rounds into an 8″ target at 200 yds in 1 minute….a feat difficult with an AK….
    US ’07 Springfields were based on the Mauser as was the Pattern 14/1917 Springfield….were subject to overheating in sustained fire….
    That’s why the Brits keep their LE’s for so long…they had a good one…

  11. I’m very suspicious of Mr. Wilson.
    When I listen to him talk in other interviews, I hear typical language that suggest he’s absorbed a lot of socialist cant. Even though he claims to be in favour of liberty, he describes himself as an anarchist, and says he rejected socialism because it failed to work; not because it’s wrong or morally reprehensible. People like this are secret admirers of the leviathan. This man isn’t interested in liberty, but in power; and I suspect that in the long run he will do far more harm than help to the cause of liberty by making foolish claims that allow the power-brokers on the left to galvanize their supporters into headlong action.
    Anyone with a basic high-school level understanding of metallurgy will immediately see that all of the discussion of printable weapons is a red herring, in any case. Any deposited substrate will result in what is at best the equivalent of sand casted parts. There is no advance on the horizon of 3D printing that will that basic fact.
    At best, you’ll be able to produce the equivalent of a zip gun – a weapon that you fire just a few times before it will burst.
    The real outcome of all this blather will be to hand a cause that they ca use as a bludgeon to restrict legitimate research.

  12. In a SHTF scenario long range weapons will have limited effectiveness in urban combat settings. Light, short, med rate of fire select fire arms are made for house to house combat.

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