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Originally Posted by Flashpoint
So... it occurs to me that if you can make a working clock, you can probably make a gun too.
Or will be able to relatively soon.
You could actually make as many guns as you want. Although I suppose you would have to still purchase the bullets. The concern arises when you have one of those Waco "cult" situations where they could pretty quickly replicate a small army's worth of firearms.
That's a bit concerning, no?
Unless... everyone started replicating bullet proof armor...
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That's an interesting scenario. I don't think that this is the machine to do it: subtractive milling CNC machines (which have been around for decades) would be much more effective at producing the necessary parts. And actually, a quick google found that there are people out there making their own gun parts on CNCs (I sure the FBI is watching me after the last 15 minutes I spent browsing certain sites). One of the foremost guys doing CNC gun manufacturing has access to a machine shop with hundreds of thousands worth of equipment, including CNC routing, turning, anodizing, and plastic injection molding machines. And he's not even doing all of the internal components, just the frames, barrels, casings, etc. It's going to be a very, very long time before a 3D printer can replicate that sort of work. And given how easy it apparently is to buy guns in the US through both legal and illegal channels, I think it's probably far more efficient to simply buy your army's guns outright, rather than the cost of setting up a metal shop.