Liberator Fail

[Charlotte the flyer]

Just in case anyone was thinking of trying one... (which would be illegal btw, just pointing that out!)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27634626

I don't understand what they mean by ammunition that's available in the US but not here.

[zanes]

Can't see the link, but your last line sounds like typical BBC/left wing s***.

[Charlotte the flyer]

It's a piece about the bill trying a 3d gun and it repeatedly blowing up.

[saddler]

It's a piece about the bill trying a 3d gun and it repeatedly blowing up.

...supplied/made by Glock perhaps?

[Gaz]

FFS, not bloody NABIS again. I'm surprised they're not babbling on about Liberators being section 58s or something equally intelligent and well-informed...

Incidentally, since when was firing something (as opposed to possession) a crime?

[Demonic69]

THIS IS NOT PROPAGANDA
REPEAT
THIS IS NOT PROPAGANDA

I don't read my own signature!

[Gaz]

THIS IS NOT PROPAGANDA
REPEAT
THIS IS NOT PROPAGANDA

And do you honestly think NABIS would go on the record saying "oh hell, these things do work after all ... errr, errr, don't print them, it's very naughty!"

Of course it's propaganda. Plenty of police forces around the world have produced videos claiming to show 3D-printed firearms blowing up. Frankly I don't trust them - in the same way I don't trust the inventors who produce videos showing that their particular 3D-printed gun design "definitely" does work. Vested interests on both sides.

[Demonic69]

Surely they'd be better off going on record advising any potential printers what laws they would be breaking and the penalty they should expect instead of making themselves look like fools and handing out an open challenge to prove them wrong. Unless a crime with a 3d gun is on their agenda for this decade.

I don't read my own signature!

[dave_303]

It may be of note that their ARs lowers fail after a couple hundred rounds. This is a none pressure bearing part. If a non pressure bearing part cracks and splits with little exertion I certainly wouldn't trust one let alone multiple shots from a Liberator

[1066]

This technology is here to stay! It will very quickly get better/cheaper/quicker and in only a few years time we will look back and laugh at the first attempts to create 3d guns.

If they haven't already, composite guns will soon appear with a piece of hydraulic pipe as a barrel and a plastic body printed around it.
Carbon fibre can be spun into light weight air bottles for airguns with safe pressures of 4000 lbs+.
Metal printing is already a reality, it's just expensive.

I first saw a hand held calculator in Dixons in the 1960's, it had just very basic functions, ran on a PP3 9v battery and cost £70.
LED wrist watches, only lit up when you pressed a button.
Mobile phones, the first one I saw was in around 1975, just a standard phone with a rotary dial attached to a wooden box about 9 inches square.
Computer printers. My first one used conductive paper and burnt the characters on, dot matrix, daisy wheel, ink jet, laser, colour laser.

This technology is a major breakthrough although, as yet, in it's infancy. Making a mould for plastic injection moulding is expensive and makes small runs uneconomical. Printing straight off the PC will become very cost effective and will effect all of our lives in the not too distant future.

(Plastic mags for my Sako Finnfire are £50 each, I'll soon be able to print a spare out for 50 pence :))