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That's a stereotype but whatever.. I have a family member who is a convected felon and he is wealthy, lives in a high class society, has no affiliations to gangs, has degrees from U of M and Columbia University, very smart eduacted nice person, would be very capable of using a 3D printer. And I agree especially being right outside detroit, if I wanted to go buy a weapon illegally, gang territory is where I'd likely find one, and not many people going to risk that unless they are gang affiliated. And AK47 templates online and other related searches are likely red flagged as well.
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Years ago a guy known to us (who shall remain nameless) made himself a Sten gun. I suppose he found the plans online.
The Sten was a cheap and nasty submachine gun, designed to be slapped together in improvised workshops during World War 2. As it was fully automatic, he got done under the National Firearms Act (passed in 1934 to regulate "gangster weapons") and went to jail for a while.
So you can see this controversy is older than 3D printers, and the law already has mechanisms to handle it. The Sten is 100x more lethal than this stupid toy plastic gun, and the tools required to make one cost less than a 3D printer.
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Physics Junkie wrote ...
I doubt you can get military grade lower receivers off "your local street corner" lol. I certainly don't know any where around where I live that you can go to the street corner and buy any guns... however, making a 3D printed lower receiver and then buying top grade parts to finish the weapon is more probable. Ak47 are cheap, M16's are not. 3D printers are much cheaper than an M16.
Actually you can easily, illegally, fit M16 parts into an AR15 lower reciever (with minor mods).
Physics Junkie wrote ... Furthermore, I'm not concerned that the average DIY guy is going to use a 3D printer to make his replica M240B into a fully functioning weapon for evil intentions. I am concerned about the people with bad intentions, criminal or not.
Criminals will be criminals. Why punish the law abiding?
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