News: First 3D Metal Gun Fired Shots Successfully

Poe Dameron

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The gun comprises of more than 30 3D-printed components, including stainless steel and other metal parts.

In a blog, Californian engineering company Solid Concepts, said: "It functions beautifully. Our resident gun expert has fired 50 successful rounds and hit a few bull's eyes at over 30 yards (metres)."

But the firm said making the classic 1911 shotgun did not come cheap, requiring a lot more than a souped-up desktop printer.

The gun has Federal Firearms License
Vice President Kent Firestone said: "This isn't about desktop printers... the industrial printer we used costs more than my college tuition and I went to a private university."

Solid Concepts said its system is legal, claiming that they are the only 3D printing service provider with a Federal Firearms License.

The company said: "Now, if a qualifying customer needs a unique gun part in five days, we can deliver.

"We have the right materials, and the right engineers who know how to best programme and maintain these machines, to make 3D printing accurate, powerful and here to stay."

The gun is made of 30 stainless steel and metal parts
The use of 3D printing technology to manufacture weapons is not new but making them out of metal is.

Earlier this year computer files allowing someone to make a single-shot Liberator gun were downloaded more than 100,000 times from Defense Distributed, an open-source website dedicated to 3D printable gun components.

The State Department, which oversees US weapons exports, ordered the blueprints to be taken off the Internet in May, but by that point, users had already reposted them widely on various file-sharing sites.
http://news.sky.com/story/1166303/fi...d-successfully

Oh god

EnigmaPopstar

Why must they invent such things

BadBitch

Oh wow.

Goosey

Quote:

t the firm said making the classic 1911 shotgun did not come cheap

Is the reporter seriously that stupid?

Anyways, who cares?

First you pay several thousand dollars for a 3D printer capable of using metals. Then you spend hundreds of hours designing your gun. Then you print it out... and you have a substandard final product.

As opposed to just buying one at Big 5 for $400.

musicfan09

Mess :rip3

musicfan09

Mess

Deuces

Yay more weapons, that's exactly what America needs.

L.B GAGA

that's another life lost. Lack of priorities can be a cancer,one day when its too late, we shall all wake-up to our stupidity

.:Allen:.

Welp I feel safe

Goosey

Surprised at y'all

Someone with a passion uses technology and science to make a beautiful, classy, iconic pistol, the Colt .45 Auto, a symbol of Americana since 1911, and y'all aren't here for it.

Shocked!

Big Smoke

Oh noes! now anyone with half a mil and patented code worth millions of dollars could make their own gun at home.