There are fully 3D printed guns, like the Liberator (in which even the the barrel and springs for the hammer and the trigger are actually printed).
It is good for a single shot or barely a couple if you reload it with a lighter powder charge, but the ideia is to use it to "liberate" a better gun, like the original liberators during WW2.
For when you really can't get a "real" gun and getting some pipes and making a four winds shotgun is somehow out of question, this is a great alternative.
There's also the FGC, which have most of the parts printed, but still needs a metal barrel (hidraulic tubing and collar shafts) and a bolt (steel bars welded together) and springs.
Thank you. I would have to rethink my stay alive strategy if I was in a situation where it was impossible for me to acquire a gun for protection. First off, gun is great in a self defense car jacking or home invasion. If the swat team is coming for you, you’re dead. A group of bandits blast into your house, your dead. During civil war, I would leave the city and find a new friend with a gun. So many variables. But alas, I’m on a farm far from a city, and (clears throat) prepared for...well you know.
That's great.
But the world is big, and not everyone got a seconda amendment (Don't you Americans lose it now, ok?), so printing stuff and adapting/jerrynigging stuff is the easiest way to get yourself a gun.
Besides, it works as a huge "fuck you" to the government, which is always nice.
I hear you bro. And I’m all for FU. I’m all for improvising, I do it all the time. Do what you have to do to stay alive. I take issue with people saying they 3D printed a gun. They did not. They printed a piece of a gun. It is 100% non functioning without all the metal pieces that are required to send a bullet through the barrel.
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