Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer

Just a few weeks after Cody Wilson and friends successfully fired an instance of their own 3-D printed handgun design, Sparrowvsrevolution writes, "a couple of Wisconsin hobbyist gunsmiths have already managed to adapt Defense Distributed's so-called Liberator firearm and print it on a $1,725 Lulzbot 3D printer, a consumer grade machine that's far cheaper than the industrial quality Stratasys machine Defense Distributed used. They then proceeded to record their cheaper gun (dubbed the 'Lulz Liberator') firing nine .380 rounds without any signs of cracking or melting. Eight of the rounds were fired from a single plastic barrel. (Defense Distributed only fired one through its prototype.) In total, the Lulz Liberator's materials cost around $25 and were printed over just 48 hours."

Comments

Re:Requires more metal

[camperdave]

Metal detectors contain metal parts!

I don't know how they can stand it. If I was a metal detector that would drive me crazy.

Yeah! It's like how I can't use a stud finder.

Re:stratasys lies about strength?

[c]

When a marketing claim conflicts with real-world-testing-based claims by tinkerers, I consider the marketing claim to be false until proven otherwise.

You could have saved yourself some effort if you left out everything prior to the comma.

Re:3D-Printed Revolver?

[darkwing_bmf]

Then maybe, just maybe, we ought to be working on helping the irrational rather than banning inanimate objects that can do nothing at all on their own.

That's like saying we can end war or hunger. What are you, some kind of hippie?