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[krispos42]

59. It's my understanding it's not illegal to make your own gun for your own use

You just can't sell or give it to anybody, ever.



If you can legally own a gun, it would be much cheaper and much more effective to buy one legitimately than buy a printer and make some half-assed... thing.


If you can't legally own a gun, it would be faster and cheaper and more effective to buy one illegally (from, say, a private seller that doesn't know you're prohibited) or to buy a stolen gun than it would be to buy a printer and make some half-assed... thing.



I don't think this will be a problem in the near to medium term. I just don't see a demand for criminals to spend thousands of dollars buying a printer and learning how to print a plastic two-shot gun when they can get a stolen pistol on-demand for a few hundred or whatever, and that is far more safe, reliable, and holds more ammunition.

Ever see "In the Line of Fire"? John Malkovich's character makes a two-shot gun out of hobby modeling plastic using conventional tools... saws and files and drills and such.

If there was a demand for it, we'd have been seeing it done for decades now. Tough plastics like Delrin are readily available, and for a basic single-shot gun I don't see any need for big lathes or mills to cut it.

A rectangular block of Delrin, a drill press to make the barrel and chamber, taps and dies to make a screw-in breech, a screwed-on pistol grip, a nail for a firing pin, a stout spring to move it, some kind of trigger, and a sear to hold the firing pin back.


The simple fact that is CAN be done does not mean it will be common or popular or anything.