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So go ahead and print your barrel (that should be interesting...)

Not really. It's old news by now in fact.

Now, of course, people don't have additive printers using the laser sintred process at home just yet. But I don't see anything fundamentally difficult about getting those to market at a reasonable cost in the future. And neither does the experts aparently.

So, forget the plastic pop-gun crap. "Real" guns are just around the corner. The first are already here.

A year and a half ago:

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

Metal barrel and all, with at least 2000 rounds through it according to a later press release:

https://blog.solidconcepts.com...

So yes, like I said before, the machines already exist to 3d print functional metal gun barrels, but they're just not widely available yet due to cost. Serializing barrels as a form of controlling guns in the age of 3d printing is already an obsolete idea.

Also, 3-D printed titanium? Have we skipped ahead a century or so?

No. If you have a cool million or so to drop on a 3 printer, you can print with a variety of metals in very high precision, including titanium and hardened steel.

For example, here is a 3D printed gun:

https://www.solidconcepts.com/...

You can print all sorts of stuff.

Dude, I think the process yields a result strong enough for a jaw.

Nope, just a demo piece. Heck if I know. I only know of using laser sintered parts in aircraft rotors. I'm not a firearms manufacturing material specialist. I can whistle the tune for aerospace, however.

http://www.solidconcepts.com/n...

You do know someone's already printed a metal gun, right?

And somehow they did it without all the fanfare (aka trolling) like Cody Wilson? Impossible!!!

You do know someone's already printed a metal gun, right?

So they think they can advance from playing with plastic to making metal parts that are as strong as forged metals and electronics and so on.

I'm pretty sure you're not working in the 3D printing field, because those who are, beg to differ.on what's currently possible.

i've been working with a company for the last 4 years that's been doing this all along.
check out Solid Concepts.