Liberator Fail

[dave_303]

Yes the technology will improve (or could end up being a dead end)
But as it stands, if one was inclined to make such a home made firearm (as some criminals and terrorist groups have done) then for around 10 years now a book has existed, The Home Gunsmith by Philip Luty, apparently it's far cheaper and doesn't take too long to make his home made SMG.

[Dark Skies]

It's part of the creeping phenomenon of policing through deceit. The authorities have been brought up to speed that criminals don't pay any attention to the law so they are giving lying a try. A few years ago police in Oxfordshire found a woman sitting on the roof of her camper van in a secret field of legally farmed hemp toking joints. The spin was that people should not do this because unlike cannabis bought under the table in a pub this cannabis had no THC content and indeed would make anyone smoking it "very ill indeed". Unfortunately no-one had bothered to tell her this as she had, apparently, been in the field for over a week drying out buds and getting pleasurably stoned with no ill affect.

Similarly people driving older vehicles from, say, the 80s, may note that when driving at bang on 30 mph they still set off those smiley speed monitors that tell you to slow down. That's because their speedos are fairly accurate but modern speedometers are permitted, nay, encouraged, to over-read your actual speed - telling you that you're driving at 30 mph when in reality you're only doing 25 mph. The roadside monitors are calibrated to coincide with modern speedometers. The purpose being to trick you into driving slower.

[zanes]

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 :))

+1. I suspect a certain company's technology could already produce these things to be reliable very easily.