• ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    You wrong as hell lmao. Gone are the days of Cody Wilson’s proof-of-concept The Liberator, people are printing chairmanwon glock lowers, FGC2.0s, 3011s, Hoffman AR lowers, etc, they’ve even got full ass CETME lowers now.

    They have metal parts you can get without a background check, yes, but you can print the regulated part and they last a good couple thousand rounds. Not as sturdy as injection molded polymer but good enough to get “the job” done unless you’re like, deployed to Fallujah.

    And also: they’ll never be able to stop it. This won’t work.

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      Ok I’m wrong. But you could make those parts on a CNC machine. A cheap CNC could make aluminum parts that last for the life of the weapon.

      Stretch that… Have you ever seen a bad guy coming the the scene without shoes? Ban shoes! Its not even a right like the 2nd amendment. Ban shoes… But not all shoes, I’m not crazy. Ban light weight durable toe protecting running shoes. Everyone knows criminals don’t come to crime scenes wearing ballarina shoes. You can’t run very fast if you wear casual hard sole shoes or heal shoes either.

      In other words, nobody is printing anything that is so critical to the weapons that couldn’t be done in a different way.

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        Yes, and they sell small home CNC machines literally designed and branded for exactly that, for like $3,000. You can also make a full auto Luty SMG from parts at the hardware store and you can now do ECM rifling at home with a 3d printed jig. You can make a suppressor for it too out of a tube and some easily made baffles. Many things can be done.

        Criminals also all drink Dihydrogen Monoxide, bandhmo.org.