Man makes guns with a 3D printer

UncleRuckus · 26 Jul 2012 at 22:47

OhEsEcks said:
Did you miss my previous post where I mentioned that a bullet is only part of a whole? A bullet is a projectile. A bullet does not contain explosives.

How does a gun's bullet function without black powder? Without the black powder the gun's bullet does not function.

Judgeneo · 26 Jul 2012 at 22:49

UncleRuckus said:
How does a gun's bullet function without black powder? Without the black powder the gun's bullet does not function.

This.

OhEsEcks · 26 Jul 2012 at 22:52

UncleRuckus said:
How does a gun's bullet function without black powder? Without the black powder the gun's bullet does not function.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet

What you're talking about is a round. A bullet is a projectile. You could put it in a slingshot and fire it. No powder needed. So 3D printers CAN print functional bullets. What they can't do is print functional rounds.

If you're 3D printing firearms and bullets, you're probably well within your means of mixing up some black powder. Hell, you could just use the powder from fireworks and save yourself the trouble.

EdGey · 26 Jul 2012 at 22:55

If I see someone operating a 3d printer on my next flight, I'll know how to react.

UncleRuckus · 26 Jul 2012 at 22:57

OhEsEcks said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet

What you're talking about is a round. A bullet is a projectile. So 3D printers CAN print functional bullets. What they can't do is print functional rounds.

If you're 3D printing firearms and bullets, you're probably well within your means of mixing up some black powder. Hell, you could just use the powder from fireworks and save yourself the trouble.

I fully understand what is bullet is. I shall just quote myself again and add some bold text.

How does a gun's bullet function without black powder? Without the black powder the gun's bullet does not function.

Blue160 · 26 Jul 2012 at 22:59

UncleRuckus said:
How does a gun's bullet function without black powder? Without the black powder the gun's bullet does not function.

A car doesn't function without petrol, but it's still a car if it's out of fuel. You're confusing the bullet with the cartridge which consists of the bullet, propellant and primer in a brass case. The bullet is just the projectile.

UncleRuckus · 26 Jul 2012 at 23:02

Blue160 said:
A car doesn't function without petrol, but it's still a car if it's out of fuel. You're confusing the bullet with the cartridge which consists of the bullet, propellant and primer in a brass case. The bullet is just the projectile.

No, I would say a closer analogy would be a car without and engine is not a functioning car.

Narj · 26 Jul 2012 at 23:07

Can I make a sex robot on a 3D printer? If not then I'm not interested.

EDIT: As a teenager, I used to make guns with wood, pegs, elastic bands and darts. They were lethal but nvm.

Yaayuh! · 26 Jul 2012 at 23:08

cm1179 said:
guns don't kill people, printers do

I heard that in on a documentary on BBC2.

OhEsEcks · 26 Jul 2012 at 23:08

UncleRuckus said:
No, I would say a closer analogy would be a car without and engine is not a functioning car.

Well no, because the engine, like the round, is the bit that contains the explosion. The fuel is the powder. To answer your question about how does a bullet function without powder, you could say it's fired electromagnetically like in a railgun, but then you'd say that 3D printers can't print electricity. Blue160 would make the car analogy again, only in relation to electric cars and flat batteries. You will make the claim that it is an electric car without a battery, I will point out that technically a 3D printer can print a battery shell, what it can't do is print electrolyte's (though metal printing can get you your coils and things).

Blue160 · 26 Jul 2012 at 23:09

UncleRuckus said:
No, I would say a closer analogy would be a car without and engine is not a functioning car.

What I'm trying to say is a bullet is still a bullet without the powder. The printer can print bullets. It can't print cartridges.

paradisiac · 26 Jul 2012 at 23:10

OhEsEcks said:
Well no, because the engine, like the round, is the bit that contains the explosion. The fuel is the powder. To answer your question about how does a bullet function without powder, you could say it's fired electromagnetically like in a railgun, but then you'd say that 3D printers can't print electricity. Blue160 would make the car analogy again, only in relation to electric cars and flat batteries. You will make the claim that it is an electric car without a battery, I will point out that technically a 3D printer can print a battery shell, what it can't do is print electrolyte's (though metal printing can get you your coils and things).

I think the point is, and your only being pedantic over the use of the word bullet and failing to read the word functioning, that you cannot make a complete, fully working, gun with a 3D printer. you would still need to get other parts etc to make it work.

Spektor · 26 Jul 2012 at 23:12

OhEsEcks said:
3D printers can't print electricity

You're a bizarre individual. In every post so far you've quite neatly refuted yourself, yet are still arguing.

Blue160 · 26 Jul 2012 at 23:14

paradisiac said:
I think the point is, and your only being pedantic over the use of the word bullet and failing to read the word functioning

All a bullet has to do to function is hit something. Doesn't matter how it's propelled

you cannot make a complete, fully working, gun with a 3D printer. you would still need to get other parts etc to make it work.

You may well be right, although the example you give is to do with the ammunition rather than the gun.

norm · 26 Jul 2012 at 23:15

Has a carbon-fiber gun/rifle ever been made. It's lighter/stronger than steel so should be ideal.

StriderX · 26 Jul 2012 at 23:15

Hell i could search around Nevada for a few days and find all the nuclear material id ever need to make plenty of city flattening nukes.

This is NOTHING, seriously. :cool:

StriderX · 26 Jul 2012 at 23:16

norm said:
Has a carbon-fiber gun/rifle ever been made. It's lighter/stronger than steel so should be ideal.

Nvm, i was wrong.

OhEsEcks · 26 Jul 2012 at 23:17

paradisiac said:
I think the point is, and your only being pedantic over the use of the word bullet and failing to read the word functioning, that you cannot make a complete, fully working, gun with a 3D printer. you would still need to get other parts etc to make it work.

And others are being pedantic over the word functioning. You can still make a fully functioning gun. The gun will do everything it's supposed to up to the hammer action that sets off the primer. That's it's functionality. The cartridge's job is the explosive bit and forcing the projectile down the barrel.

And if we're being pedantic, you could always print a fully functioning 3D blow dart gun. Including bullets.

UncleRuckus · 26 Jul 2012 at 23:17

OhEsEcks said:
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So they can't, can they.

These bullets cannot by fired by the gun parts including what is made up of the cartridge which this printer produces.

OhEsEcks · 26 Jul 2012 at 23:19

Spektor said:
You're a bizarre individual. In every post so far you've quite neatly refuted yourself, yet are still arguing.

Yeah. I've refuted myself so much you're the one that jumped off the deep end on the previous page instead of I dunno, refuting the point instead of talking about chair legs and beating people with them.

Pipe down.