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What about 3D printers making guns? ... We're heading for a very interesting future.

We're already there. These guys printed a lower receiver (legally considered to be "the gun") of an AR-15:

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/133514-the-worlds-first-3...

Now you can't (right now) even with laser sintering produce some of the highest tolerance parts of a gun, such as the barrel. But we're getting there.




producing a barrel is not even hard with a well set up lathe, is it? I mean, certainly you can outperform muskets easily enough.


Yeah, I was just thinking of the scenario where you just download a file, print it, and you have a finished product, with some assembly.

With 3-D printers, this can currently be done with only very simple products. But the capabilities are expanding...




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