But there are a bunch of people talking out their ass as they haven't a fucking clue about the first things about firearms.
plastic printed guns are the NON STRESS parts, lower on a AR-15 the grips ect. the internals all need to be made of steel, and assembled properly (even if you could print them all together, an AR-15 is complex on the inside with many small springs)
Laser sintering, the parts are going to be porous and need to be filled in, and then heat treated with a forge not your every day oven (unless yours can get to 1300 degree's+). the barrel needs to be of sufficient strength not to explode during the first round. (ie stand up to pressures from 35,000 psi (for a 9mm handgun round) to 55,000 psi + for rifle rounds. the bolt and firing pin need to be stronger so they don't fly back into your face.
Laser sintering is used for some things these days like making door handles, but after they are made they are fragile VERY fragile. they need to have bronze or other metal added to fill in the gaps and hold it together properly. none of this is going to work for a little "script kiddie" at home.
There is a element of skill involved with firearms manufacture, you don't just plonk them together. they need fitting and adjusting to work correctly. there are very few action parts of a firearm that are "drop in" most need fitting and adjusting to work correctly.
Sorry for anything Rude, but all i see is Fear mongering from people who don't know the internal workings of a firearm from a hole in the wall. i would expect better from people on a site like this. i am not a professional computer programmer, or network engineer, i don't presume to tell you any Shlub can do you your job just as good as you. Don't presume to tell me that any shlub with a computer can do my job as a gunsmith as good or better than me. Do some research first, EDUCATE yourself on these things. Go to a firearms Forum. Good ones that i am a member of are Thehighroad.org, and Canadiangunnutz.com We arent a bunch of inbred rednecks like people would like you to think, most of us hold down very hard jobs (some of the same jobs you yourselves have)
the internal parts of a firearm are not going to be anywhere NEAR strong enough to stand up to even being fired once if they are printed. the bolt face of a firearm is case hardened to stand up to the explosive force of a round going off. neither plastic printed nor laser sintering is going to be even close to strong enough, you are going to end up with chunks of your gun embedded in your face after the first round. the firing pin is another part, if you cant hammer it into a 2x4 it is not going to work for hitting a primer.
as for the barrel, unless it can stand up to 35,000psi of pressure for a 9mm, up to 55,000 for a.223(5.56). the operator is going to be very unhappy with the results. as it will be explosive and quite deadly.
You still need all the internal parts to finish off an AR 15. and most other firearms would not work being printed. (it might but you are going to lose a hand firing it)
assembling an AR-15 and getting it to work right is not as easy as people make it out to be, you have to have firearms knowledge to do it, just reading a book isnt going to cut it.
im an experienced gunsmith and it still takes me several hours to get a new trigger working in an AR-15 as they are a very convoluted design.
Actually more people are killed by drunk drivers every year than the number 1 firearm (handguns) and just slightly under the over all firearm deaths. BUT, the firearms deaths in the states are calculated with Crime murders, police shootings, and personal protection. that cuts down the over all illegal use (murder) by a lot. Cant say that with drunk driving that's 11000 a year straight up no other options. Impaired driving deaths make up 1/3rd of the over all car deaths in the united states, so over 30,000 people a year are killed by cars. As a side note. there are 79.7 cars per 100 people in the states, there are 88.8 firearms per 100 people in the states. so if guns were a huge problem, you would think with accidental deaths, homicides, police shootings, and personal protection we should have firearms deaths in the 40,000 a year. but we dont.
All these stats can be found on the FBI website, the CDC website, and Wikipedia.
Why is it people always Blame the firearm but not the person holding it?.
More people are killed every year in car "Accidents" than all killed by guns.
as for the firearm in this video it causes a very small% of gun deaths. All of which are in "Gun Free Zones"
the lower that he built has very little stress. the Upper which you would need to buy is where all the stresses are. this is still not something your average idiot gang banger is going to be able to do. as you need some knowlege as to hot to fit it all together, buy the needed parts, and make the trigger work (even a "drop in" trigger needs fitting to work correctly. ) i dont see them being able to print an upper and even then you need a barrel.
The main cash crop my parents have is selling Pollen. it helps with allergies (as long as it is taken from the flowers in the general area you live) honey helps because it contains some pollen. to bring a point to it. my parents are governed to somewhere around $4 a Kg for honey. for 500grams of pollen is worth $15.
Pollen is also an Excellent Energy supplement.
What do you think Polysporin does ? is isnt just an antibacterial ointment. if the cells are open on the surface (a gash with raw edges) if there is something applied to it that has nutrients in it that are easy to access it will use them.
That's ONLY if the honey is not Pasteurized. Once it is Pasteurized it has a shelf life about the same as normal food. The main reason for this is Honey is itself kills germs. it has been used for centuries for poultices, as it kills bacteria, is full of nutrients that the cut flesh can actually draw from, to heal faster and with less scar tissue. My parents have used it on one of their horses that seriously injured its back leg (you could see the Tendon moving) it took 3 months with Honey poultices to heal (the vet said the horse would need to be put down, he was well and truly amazed that the honey worked so well) all that is left is a slight ruffle in the fur on the spot.
North American Frames are made from wood, and a lot are switching over to all plastic frames. Honey is a very light Acid, it will eat most any metal. all of my parents extracting equipment is made from Medical grade Stainless steel. Their whole Extracting line cost them almost a years pay (75k), if it is not in use it must be washed down to get the honey off.
my dad at least loves working with the bee's his father was a beekeeper, as was his fathers father. I don't know how far back they go as beekeepers. But its a ways. unfortunately i am not big enough to lug the boxes around all summer. With 600 hives to their name and an average of 2 boxes each that's a LOT of lifting(some only get 1 box, others can get up to 4 boxes over the summer) if there were easier ways to do it. And if farming wasn't getting so difficult in the area my parents live id for sure do it for work, as there is nothing id like better than being my own boss.
Doesn't work so well when the keeper has over 600 hives. there is only so much that can be done. The sugar does not impede next years harvest. i don't see how it could. my parents go around to each of the hives, check it for weight before wrapping it up for the season. if they can even barely move the hive they add what frames they can, or if the whole yard is weak they add a barrel of sugar syrup. fast food for them to use over the winter.
not really true. The beekeeper adds boxes onto the top of the hive in the summer for the bee's to fill with honey. They take these off at the end of summer leaving more than enough time for the bee's to harvest enough for winter. some dont and some do. the keeper places frames of honey in the weak hives or a big bucket of feed (sugar generally). has medication in it as well.
i might consider it, but i myself hate honey. only time i eat it is when i have a sore throat. after 20 years of working with honey i don't like it at all.
its not used to make them lay more eggs, it is an Antibiotic to help get rid of what is called Foul Brood. it turns the larva in the cells into a stinky brown slime. the bee's cant clean this up by themselves. if it isn't caught in time the whole hive must be destroyed. which is generally done by blocking all the entrances to the hive pouring gasoline into it. and burning it. the heat kills the bacteria. and destroys any honey in the hive. as bee's are scavengers they will raid a dead hive to steal the honey. if you dont burn the diseased hive they will take the bacteria back to a healthy hive and infect it.
They also don't have the food and safety laws we do in the US and Canada. much of the honey from china is from small farmers that are using old burlap sacks to squeeze the honey out of the comb. they all bring their honey to a central area and pour it into a big bin. in Canada at least if the govt tests your honey and finds a chemical that is more than the legal parts per million ALL of your honey is condemned. they confiscate it and you get no money that year. my parents have to have Samples from each yard they have to send to the govt for testing. if something is wrong they can take the honey from the problem yard.
Something also to consider Honey you buy from the farmer wont be pasteurized. meaning all of the vitamins taste and other nutrients are still there. Pasteurization kills honey. it is no better than corn syrup after being pasteurized.
no they just get it cheap from china and Argentina. Billy Bee honey in Canada is about 90% foreign honey that they buy dirt cheap. they are also getting what is called Honey Analog which is what this test is there to detect.
gathering honey is FAR from an easy job. it is heavy hot and hard work for little pay out. (my parents are one of the bigger honey producers in Ontario) you dont make any money through the winter months. (other than what you can sell from the door) and you are going all balls to the wall during the summer. honey boxes on average weigh about 80lbs each, each yard my parents have has 20 hives, each with an average of 2-3 of these boxes coming off at any one time. then you have to exact it. to do 2 skids of boxes which is 12-16 boxes per skid is an entire days work.
when they do sell their honey to packers (billy bee) they want to pay about half what the from the door price is. they make a not to bad living doing it. about 75k a year in a good year. but that is generally all at once when they sell to a packer. so that has to last them the entire year. i would not wish it on anybody. i would not get into the family business unless i had to.
i wouldn't recommend shooting cast lead bullets through a semi auto (gas operated) it will clog up the gas tube and it is pretty much impossible other than submersing the gas tube in ammonia for a day to get the lead out. cast are ok in a blow back semi or a bolt or single shot. not a gas operated. (hence why they dont make lead.223 in most cases as it is normally used in a semi. )
At last findable count on google. Americans own more than 200 million guns. good luck getting gun owners to surrender that many guns. there are people that have hundreds of thousands of dollars tied up in firearms either for collecting, or competition. should they have all that equity taken from them with nothing in return ? and for what getting guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens.
with Mexico with no more than a fence between, and a short jaunt of water to another big bad place how on earth can people think they are going to keep guns out of the hands of criminals.
even if someone is a friend of a friend. and you dont know them from a hole in the wall, why the hell would you accept a friend request from them ?. just because someone goes to school , or works with you doesent make them a friend. people are to obsessed with having the most friends. its freaking stupid.
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its the same sentiment gun owners have with criminals.
But there are a bunch of people talking out their ass as they haven't a fucking clue about the first things about firearms. plastic printed guns are the NON STRESS parts, lower on a AR-15 the grips ect. the internals all need to be made of steel, and assembled properly (even if you could print them all together, an AR-15 is complex on the inside with many small springs) Laser sintering, the parts are going to be porous and need to be filled in, and then heat treated with a forge not your every day oven (unless yours can get to 1300 degree's+). the barrel needs to be of sufficient strength not to explode during the first round. (ie stand up to pressures from 35,000 psi (for a 9mm handgun round) to 55,000 psi + for rifle rounds. the bolt and firing pin need to be stronger so they don't fly back into your face. Laser sintering is used for some things these days like making door handles, but after they are made they are fragile VERY fragile. they need to have bronze or other metal added to fill in the gaps and hold it together properly. none of this is going to work for a little "script kiddie" at home. There is a element of skill involved with firearms manufacture, you don't just plonk them together. they need fitting and adjusting to work correctly. there are very few action parts of a firearm that are "drop in" most need fitting and adjusting to work correctly. Sorry for anything Rude, but all i see is Fear mongering from people who don't know the internal workings of a firearm from a hole in the wall. i would expect better from people on a site like this. i am not a professional computer programmer, or network engineer, i don't presume to tell you any Shlub can do you your job just as good as you. Don't presume to tell me that any shlub with a computer can do my job as a gunsmith as good or better than me. Do some research first, EDUCATE yourself on these things. Go to a firearms Forum. Good ones that i am a member of are Thehighroad.org, and Canadiangunnutz.com We arent a bunch of inbred rednecks like people would like you to think, most of us hold down very hard jobs (some of the same jobs you yourselves have)
the internal parts of a firearm are not going to be anywhere NEAR strong enough to stand up to even being fired once if they are printed. the bolt face of a firearm is case hardened to stand up to the explosive force of a round going off. neither plastic printed nor laser sintering is going to be even close to strong enough, you are going to end up with chunks of your gun embedded in your face after the first round. the firing pin is another part, if you cant hammer it into a 2x4 it is not going to work for hitting a primer. as for the barrel, unless it can stand up to 35,000psi of pressure for a 9mm, up to 55,000 for a .223(5.56). the operator is going to be very unhappy with the results. as it will be explosive and quite deadly.
You still need all the internal parts to finish off an AR 15. and most other firearms would not work being printed. (it might but you are going to lose a hand firing it) assembling an AR-15 and getting it to work right is not as easy as people make it out to be, you have to have firearms knowledge to do it, just reading a book isnt going to cut it. im an experienced gunsmith and it still takes me several hours to get a new trigger working in an AR-15 as they are a very convoluted design.
Actually more people are killed by drunk drivers every year than the number 1 firearm (handguns) and just slightly under the over all firearm deaths. BUT, the firearms deaths in the states are calculated with Crime murders, police shootings, and personal protection. that cuts down the over all illegal use (murder) by a lot. Cant say that with drunk driving that's 11000 a year straight up no other options. Impaired driving deaths make up 1/3rd of the over all car deaths in the united states, so over 30,000 people a year are killed by cars. As a side note. there are 79.7 cars per 100 people in the states, there are 88.8 firearms per 100 people in the states. so if guns were a huge problem, you would think with accidental deaths, homicides, police shootings, and personal protection we should have firearms deaths in the 40,000 a year. but we dont. All these stats can be found on the FBI website, the CDC website, and Wikipedia.
Why is it people always Blame the firearm but not the person holding it?. More people are killed every year in car "Accidents" than all killed by guns. as for the firearm in this video it causes a very small% of gun deaths. All of which are in "Gun Free Zones"
the lower that he built has very little stress. the Upper which you would need to buy is where all the stresses are. this is still not something your average idiot gang banger is going to be able to do. as you need some knowlege as to hot to fit it all together, buy the needed parts, and make the trigger work (even a "drop in" trigger needs fitting to work correctly. ) i dont see them being able to print an upper and even then you need a barrel.
The main cash crop my parents have is selling Pollen. it helps with allergies (as long as it is taken from the flowers in the general area you live) honey helps because it contains some pollen. to bring a point to it. my parents are governed to somewhere around $4 a Kg for honey. for 500grams of pollen is worth $15. Pollen is also an Excellent Energy supplement.
What do you think Polysporin does ? is isnt just an antibacterial ointment. if the cells are open on the surface (a gash with raw edges) if there is something applied to it that has nutrients in it that are easy to access it will use them.
That's ONLY if the honey is not Pasteurized. Once it is Pasteurized it has a shelf life about the same as normal food. The main reason for this is Honey is itself kills germs. it has been used for centuries for poultices, as it kills bacteria, is full of nutrients that the cut flesh can actually draw from, to heal faster and with less scar tissue. My parents have used it on one of their horses that seriously injured its back leg (you could see the Tendon moving) it took 3 months with Honey poultices to heal (the vet said the horse would need to be put down, he was well and truly amazed that the honey worked so well) all that is left is a slight ruffle in the fur on the spot.
North American Frames are made from wood, and a lot are switching over to all plastic frames. Honey is a very light Acid, it will eat most any metal. all of my parents extracting equipment is made from Medical grade Stainless steel. Their whole Extracting line cost them almost a years pay (75k), if it is not in use it must be washed down to get the honey off.
my dad at least loves working with the bee's his father was a beekeeper, as was his fathers father. I don't know how far back they go as beekeepers. But its a ways. unfortunately i am not big enough to lug the boxes around all summer. With 600 hives to their name and an average of 2 boxes each that's a LOT of lifting(some only get 1 box, others can get up to 4 boxes over the summer) if there were easier ways to do it. And if farming wasn't getting so difficult in the area my parents live id for sure do it for work, as there is nothing id like better than being my own boss.
Doesn't work so well when the keeper has over 600 hives. there is only so much that can be done. The sugar does not impede next years harvest. i don't see how it could. my parents go around to each of the hives, check it for weight before wrapping it up for the season. if they can even barely move the hive they add what frames they can, or if the whole yard is weak they add a barrel of sugar syrup. fast food for them to use over the winter.
not really true. The beekeeper adds boxes onto the top of the hive in the summer for the bee's to fill with honey. They take these off at the end of summer leaving more than enough time for the bee's to harvest enough for winter. some dont and some do. the keeper places frames of honey in the weak hives or a big bucket of feed (sugar generally). has medication in it as well.
i might consider it, but i myself hate honey. only time i eat it is when i have a sore throat. after 20 years of working with honey i don't like it at all.
it was structured nicely until i hit submit then it changed it to a wall of text. as for spelling. get over it.
its not used to make them lay more eggs, it is an Antibiotic to help get rid of what is called Foul Brood. it turns the larva in the cells into a stinky brown slime. the bee's cant clean this up by themselves. if it isn't caught in time the whole hive must be destroyed. which is generally done by blocking all the entrances to the hive pouring gasoline into it. and burning it. the heat kills the bacteria. and destroys any honey in the hive. as bee's are scavengers they will raid a dead hive to steal the honey. if you dont burn the diseased hive they will take the bacteria back to a healthy hive and infect it.
They also don't have the food and safety laws we do in the US and Canada. much of the honey from china is from small farmers that are using old burlap sacks to squeeze the honey out of the comb. they all bring their honey to a central area and pour it into a big bin. in Canada at least if the govt tests your honey and finds a chemical that is more than the legal parts per million ALL of your honey is condemned. they confiscate it and you get no money that year. my parents have to have Samples from each yard they have to send to the govt for testing. if something is wrong they can take the honey from the problem yard.
Something also to consider Honey you buy from the farmer wont be pasteurized. meaning all of the vitamins taste and other nutrients are still there. Pasteurization kills honey. it is no better than corn syrup after being pasteurized.
no they just get it cheap from china and Argentina. Billy Bee honey in Canada is about 90% foreign honey that they buy dirt cheap. they are also getting what is called Honey Analog which is what this test is there to detect. gathering honey is FAR from an easy job. it is heavy hot and hard work for little pay out. (my parents are one of the bigger honey producers in Ontario) you dont make any money through the winter months. (other than what you can sell from the door) and you are going all balls to the wall during the summer. honey boxes on average weigh about 80lbs each, each yard my parents have has 20 hives, each with an average of 2-3 of these boxes coming off at any one time. then you have to exact it. to do 2 skids of boxes which is 12-16 boxes per skid is an entire days work. when they do sell their honey to packers (billy bee) they want to pay about half what the from the door price is. they make a not to bad living doing it. about 75k a year in a good year. but that is generally all at once when they sell to a packer. so that has to last them the entire year. i would not wish it on anybody. i would not get into the family business unless i had to.
i wouldn't recommend shooting cast lead bullets through a semi auto (gas operated) it will clog up the gas tube and it is pretty much impossible other than submersing the gas tube in ammonia for a day to get the lead out. cast are ok in a blow back semi or a bolt or single shot. not a gas operated. (hence why they dont make lead .223 in most cases as it is normally used in a semi. )
From the news reports on them, the criminals ignored everything but the gun safes. so that would tell me they were targeted for guns only.
At last findable count on google. Americans own more than 200 million guns. good luck getting gun owners to surrender that many guns. there are people that have hundreds of thousands of dollars tied up in firearms either for collecting, or competition. should they have all that equity taken from them with nothing in return ? and for what getting guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens. with Mexico with no more than a fence between, and a short jaunt of water to another big bad place how on earth can people think they are going to keep guns out of the hands of criminals.
even if someone is a friend of a friend. and you dont know them from a hole in the wall, why the hell would you accept a friend request from them ?. just because someone goes to school , or works with you doesent make them a friend. people are to obsessed with having the most friends. its freaking stupid.
problem is it isnt free to begin with, it is paid for with our taxes since the CBC is subsidized with govt funding.