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4. People are already releasing files that let you make gun parts.

Sat Jan 21, 2012, 07:50 PM

Jan 2012

http://www.guns.com/how-to-use-a-3d-printer-to-build-an-ar-lower.html

3D printers can't make a complete gun...yet...but they can certainly make gun parts, including high-capacity magazines. The implications are interesting.

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The disruptive future of {3D} printing (BBC) [View all] eppur_se_muova Jan 2012 OP

"Earl Gray, hot." HopeHoops Jan 2012 #2

Next up: tricorder scanners. silverweb Jan 2012 #7

"Dang - the tricorder found my penile implant!!!" HopeHoops Jan 2012 #8

I missed that episode. silverweb Jan 2012 #9

It was in the outtakes. HopeHoops Jan 2012 #10

Easy to imagine, though. silverweb Jan 2012 #11

I think I will make one Vincardog Jan 2012 #3

People are already releasing files that let you make gun parts. Jean V. Dubois Jan 2012 #4

Great for things made purely from cheap plastic muriel_volestrangler Jan 2012 #6

Actually, this general category works for metals too. originalpckelly Jan 2012 #16

And the people making a mint... krispos42 Jan 2012 #13

And there are 3D scanners too... originalpckelly Jan 2012 #17

Throughout the history of manufacturing... krispos42 Jan 2012 #18