Version 2.0 of 3D-Printed Rifle Successfully Fires 14 Rounds

coolnumbr12 writes "The world's first 3D-printed rifle, named 'The Grizzly' after Canadian-built tanks used in World War II, was fired in June, but the first shot fractured the barrel receiver. The creator, a Canadian man who simply goes by 'Matthew,' refined his design and posted a video Friday on YouTube of Grizzly 2.0 successfully firing 3 rounds of Winchester bullets. The video description says the Grizzly 2.0 fired 14 rounds before it cracked. The new rifle was also safe enough for Matthew to fire it by hand rather than the string system used in the first test."

Comments

How long before

[mozumder]

these things are ready to kill a classroom full of first-graders?

Not too familiar with firearms terminology, since i'm not dumb enough to own a gun and have no desire to shoot up my family, but is that the standard measure of gun reliability? "First-graders-killed-per-minute"?

I hope it explodes and kills him

[Cyberax]

I hope this rifle explodes and kills him. I understand the motivation to go and explore the limits of 3D printing. But rifles and handguns? They are useless for hunting or self defense. About the only thing they're useful is terrorism and/or dodging regulations.

Re: I hope it explodes and kills him

[Cyberax]

Nope. I'd really like if every decision had consequences. I.e. if you refuse to be an organ donor then you should be disqualified from receiving them. If you invent a terror weapon - it'd be only fitting if you die by it.

Re:I hope it explodes and kills him

[Anonymous Coward]

You can shut your mind to the obvious, but he's working on a method to make a gun that bypasses regulation and makes creating and disposing of any number of murder weapons very easy, with hardly any other application (because we already have guns that are better, except they're not as easy to get and to get rid of). Someone who just gives orders and never fires a gun or makes the weapon and never fires it is still to blame and to hope that it backfires on them is not immoral.

Re: I hope it explodes and kills him

[Cyberax]

I'd just discovered a way to make a plague lethal in 80% cases, using only kitchen tools and 3d printer! What a wonderful discovery! I hope everyone makes a vial of it - for self-defense, of course. Or for duck hunting.

Re: I hope it explodes and kills him

[Jane Q. Public]

"A very large majority of the population is, by and large, satisfied with the job the government is doing, and while they may disagree with the party currently holding the power, they do not believe that armed resistance is necessary."

See... there's just this LITTLE flaw in your logic here...

Maybe lots (not a "majority"... read the recent polls) of people are not too dissatisfied with government right now (not the same as "satisfied" at all... again read the polls). BUT... IF there were military in the streets shoving those people around, you can bet your ass that would change in a heartbeat.

There are 100 people in this country for every military man, and there is a gun for each one of them. PLUS, you can also bet that most of the military would NOT be out there trying to fight their own people for some tyrannical President. So the odds just get worse from there.

No, the U.S. military would not have a snowball's chance in Hell against its own citizens. Count on it.

Re: How is this useless for self-defense?

[Cyberax]

Backup for what, exactly? If you can buy a gun then you certainly can buy another one for backup.

Re: How is this useless for self-defense?

[Cyberax]

Storing a gun in an usecured barn is illegal. So as I've said - it's only useful to break law. Not for anything else.