New AR family printable lowers

[MNGunner]

Having an unreliable and easily damaged gun really isn't "sticking it to the man".
However, the technology will improve...

[JohnGageMN]

I don't equate freedom and liberty as being able to do everything I want to. It's just not a reasonable thing to expect. Have you ever seen the quality of product by do-it-yourself types? Do you want to see that quality introduced into firearms? I certainly don't!

A long time ago I realized that if there's a job that someone makes a living at professionally, chances are if you try to do that job without training or experience, you're very likely to screw it up. You're better off paying to have it done right in the first place. Hell, these days it's hard to find a competent professional in some areas, let alone competent novices!

By your logic I shouldn't be able to do my own custom work to my motorcycles or repair my own vehicles, or remodel my house. The problem with that is that some of us have good mechanical skills and the ability to build something just as well as something "professionally" produced. Just because you don't have faith in your skills don't assume that the entire populace is in the same boat.

[JohnGageMN]

Having an unreliable and easily damaged gun really isn't "sticking it to the man".
However, the technology will improve...

This.

The first power flight by Orville Wright lasted 12 seconds at a ground speed of 6.8 MPH. That first flight, in and of itself, wasn't particularly useful from an air travel standpoint, but it had to start somewhere.

[NMRMN]

More than information, less than an object.

- Cody Wilson

3D Printed Gun: Mashable Mini-Documentary

None of the visionaries then, Jobs and Gates and Sculley and those guys, nor the pundits, most of whom are forgotten now, could have seen where that first ozone-stinking 300 dpi black-and-white gadget and the little box that made funny noises on the phone line would take us. Entire business models have been born and died in the intervening decades, and other business models that have endured for centuries (think newspapers) are flailing.

While the incumbents in various positions of power try to stamp out Defense Distributed, and prop up various big firms with business models that have been erased by the disintermediating effect of the internet, the internet teems with ever more releases of novel gun components. From the point of view of the State Department’s “Department of Defense Trade Controls,” this is villainy that must be crushed. But they’ve just bought themselves a game of perpetual transnational whack-a-mole

More: http://weaponsman.com/?p=8933

Poll: 62 Percent Say Americans Should be Allowed to Own 3D Printers; Majority Opposes 3D Printed Guns

Recently the world’s first fully 3D-printed gun was successfully fired and Reason-Rupe finds Americans are torn on 3D technology. A substantial 62 percent of Americans say people should be allowed to use 3D printers in their homes. However, a majority (53 percent) of these Americans oppose allowing people to print their own guns.

More: http://reason.com/poll/2013/06/05/poll- ... -should-be

Cody Wilson's 3D Printed Liberator Gets Update -- V 1.1

The almost completely-plastic pistol was teased for weeks then unveiled earlier this month. Shortly afterwords, the U.S. government shut the project down for reasons of national security. The Internet being what it is, naturally the plans went viral, with the originals easily- and widely-available.

However, some 3D printing enthusiasts found problems with the plans. Part that would not fit, scaling issues, parts that would crash 3D printer computers.

It didn’t take very long: plans for the Liberator version 1.1 have been developed, although they’re not official by any means — they were put together by the community.

More: http://www.guns.com/2013/05/31/3d-print ... ersion-1-1

I'm guessing it doesn't have the 'glass rod break' trigger of a tuned 1911.

[NMRMN]

Hmmm. Advances in technology -- sooner than later I guess:

Today, the CNC (Computer Numerical Control) milling process is responsible for chiseling out most gun parts for most guns—frame, barrel, firing pin, internal components, all cut down from a hunk of metal by the spinning bit of a CNC machine. Now what if that was something you could set up next to your home computer? Well, a San Francisco based R&D firm may have just answered your prayers and not even really know it.

Otherfab, a San Francisco based R&D firm under the eponymous Otherlab, launched a Kickstarter campaign May 5 to fund the production of “a portable, computer controlled, 3-axis mill that is specifically designed for use at home.”

More: http://www.guns.com/2013/05/23/3d-print ... me-office/