{"id":582,"date":"2012-07-29T01:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/29\/report-of-working-3d-printed-gun\/"},"modified":"2012-07-29T01:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T01:59:00","slug":"report-of-working-3d-printed-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/29\/report-of-working-3d-printed-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Report of working 3D printed gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Only the tiniest bare beginning of the legal and ethical conundra, folks. -egg]<br \/>[BoingBoing]<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/JHc1CyHumn4\/report-of-working-3d-printed-g.html\">Report of working 3D printed gun<\/a>: <br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/craphound.com\/images\/printedgun.jpg?w=625\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Popular Science<\/em>&#8216;s  John Robb reports on a person who claims that his 3D-printed pistol can successfully fire live ammunition, though not with total reliability. The same person then went on to print a working AR-15 rifle (this is a substantial advance on <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/09\/20\/3d-printed-ar-15-parts-challenge-firearm-regulation.html\">last year&#8217;s account<\/a> of a 3D printable AR-15 automatic conversion kit. This event has raised something of a crisis for <a href=\"http:\/\/thingiverse.com\/\">Thingiverse<\/a>, the online repository for 3D printable meshes, which is contemplating whether it will host files that can be printed into &#8220;weapons.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>An amateur gunsmith, operating under the handle of &#8220;HaveBlue&#8221; (incidentally, &#8220;Have Blue&#8221; is the codename that was used for the prototype stealth fighter that became the Lockheed F-117), announced recently in online forums that he had successfully printed a serviceable .22 caliber pistol.<\/p>\n<p>Despite predictions of disaster, the pistol worked. It successfully fired 200 rounds in testing.<\/p>\n<p>HaveBlue then decided to push the limits of what was possible and use his printer to make an AR-15 rifle. To do this, he downloaded plans for an AR-15 in the Solidworks file format from a site called CNCGunsmith.com. After some small modifications to the design, he fed about $30 of ABS plastic feedstock into his late-model Stratasys printer. The result was a functional AR-15 rifle. Early testing shows that it works, although it still has some minor feed and extraction problems to be worked out. \n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/article\/2012-07\/working-assault-rifle-made-3-d-printer\"> A Working Assault Rifle Made With a 3-D Printer <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=936ee810561e56b3c2d5f8cc6d4e6ef1&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=936ee810561e56b3c2d5f8cc6d4e6ef1&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tags.bluekai.com\/site\/5148\" width=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.adsrvr.org\/track\/evnt\/?ct=0:dupdmqp&#038;adv=wouzn4v&#038;fmt=3\" width=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/JHc1CyHumn4\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Only the tiniest bare beginning of the legal and ethical conundra, folks. -egg][BoingBoing]Report of working 3D printed gun: Popular Science&#8216;s John Robb reports on a person who claims that his 3D-printed pistol can successfully fire live ammunition, though not with total reliability. The same person then went on to print a working AR-15 rifle (this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-9o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}