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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. Sensationalist summary at all? by tocsy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Adding to the 3-D printed gun/rifle controversy"

    How? Neither the Hack A Day article nor the design notes mention "3d" or "printing," and the fact that it's a gauss gun implies that metal is pretty central to the design... which can't be 3d printed at this point in time.

  2. Wives by arthurpaliden · · Score: 5, Funny

    Walking behind me as I watched the video and all she said was "No.".

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