drilling holes is not the same as making a gun

https://www.80-lower.com/blogs/80-lower-blog/how-to-complete-an-80-lower-receiver/

you can make an entire gun with a 3d printer

Okay but the lower reciever is what is serialized

autonomously from data

for $300

All the other parts can be delivered straight to your door

Assemble the council

If you make your own lower you have an untraceable gun

And by legal definition the lower is the gun

You’re supposed to notify the ATF if you manufacturer a firearm

Ive never heard of that

no doubt machined metal is the superior option but the difference in accessibility between a desktop 3d printer and a comparable subtractive milling machine is astronomical in terms of cost, availability, pre-req knowledge required, etc

Da perfect pinball machine

oh 100%

Hit 'Print', come back 30 hours later to all your parts printed out

yep

Run to the hardware store to get a pipe and some nails, boom

3d printing makes it impossible to eradicate gun production

you could shut down major mills

that make the lowers or whatever it is that's a legal part to sell/distribute

but you couldn't possibly shut down home appliances

if you shut down the majority of the manufacturers making gun parts, that's basically it

it takes a lot of knowledge, skill, and money to do that sort of thing and the average person will not be able to do it themselves

but a home appliance that can make virtually any object can't be banned, functionally

It'll eventually come down to 3D printer companies implementing some form of DRM to prevent printing anything that trips the "firearm part" trigger

true

Either DRM hardcoded into the machines or software DRM

but i think the cat is out of the bag and though they could slow it down slightly, they coudln't possibly extinguish it

every step they take now can easily be circumvented the next day

govt mandates drm? hackers find a way around it

so the govt takes additional steps and so on

cat and mouse

i think the reason it's so pervasive is because it's just an idea

3d printers are just a cnc hot glue gun

at least fdm ones

but that's all u need

Yeah all you really need is a polymer chassis to mount the metal hardware store parts inside

All you really need is a chamber, barrel, recoil spring and bolt

which are mass manufactured for super cheap