“An amateur gunsmith, operating under the handle of “HaveBlue” announced recently in online forums that he had successfully printed a serviceable .22 caliber pistol. HaveBlue then decided to push the limits of what was possible and use his printer to make an AR-15 rifle. To do this, he downloaded plans for an AR-15 receiver in the Solidworks file format from a site called CNCGunsmith.com. After some small modifications to the design, he fed about $30 of ABS plastic feedstock into his late-model Stratasys printer. The result was a functional AR-15 rifle. While there are still some details to sort out, it’s pretty clear that making weapons at home using 3-D printers from commonly available materials is going to become much more commonplace in the near future.”
Born Of An Atom Bomb
Image and thought dump for the various projects of Jared Axelrod
