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Building a Full-Auto Gauss Gun

Posted by Soulskill on from the science-is-fun dept.

Okian Warrior writes "Adding to the 3-D printed gun/rifle controversy, Delta-V Engineering built a Full-auto Gauss gun (aka 'machine gun'), capable of firing 15 steel bolts from its magazine in less than two seconds. At 3% the muzzle energy of a .22, it's still in the prototype stage. Bullets are made from turned-down nails, and the gun uses no chemical propellants. The builder has posted the design notes online. Video of the gun in action is pretty interesting."

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  1. Re:Sensationalist summary at all? by ganjadude · · Score: 4, Interesting

    actually there are metal 3d printers. they are just not as common and generally not what many are speaking of when talking 3d printers at this point in time. I just did a quick google search and found this one fvor example http://www.3dsystems.com/3d-printers/production/spro-125-direct-metal

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  2. Re:Sensationalist summary at all? by h4rr4r · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://thehomegunsmith.com/pdf/BSP-SMG_Book.pdf

    Machining can be done with a file, this is largely how Khyber pass guns are made.

    Give it up already.