Author Topic: People are trying to make 3D printable guns.  (Read 2190 times)

They have made some gun parts that lasted over 600 rounds without breaking.
Really? Surely some crucial part of the gun would break even if the rest survived for 600 rounds

Really? Surely some crucial part of the gun would break even if the rest survived for 600 rounds
guns aren't very complicated machines

Really? Surely some crucial part of the gun would break even if the rest survived for 600 rounds

The designers have only made 3d printed lower receivers, not entire guns.

That guy came off as such a douche. I don't know what his point was. Is he trying to say we shouldn't regulate guns at all. Or we need to do something stricter? Also his associate at the end was an even huger douche.


The designers have only made 3d printed lower receivers, not entire guns.

Which doesn't really matter if it fails, it takes like the least amount of stress. I'd like to see if they could make a barrel. Which would need some super strong plastic.
« Last Edit: March 27, 2013, 03:37:32 AM by devildogelite »

it'll probably be kinda hard to kill someone, and the gun wont last long, but I think that's possible

LOL NO!

A hardened sharp piece of plastic traveling at 400m/s to 1500m/s is loving fatal.
« Last Edit: March 27, 2013, 03:50:23 AM by Thé Lord Tony »

LOL NO!
A hardened sharp piece of plastic traveling at 200m/s to 1500m/s is loving fatal.
bullets really aren't sharp
and they'd most certainly need to have much weaker explosives than a regular gun, because, yknow, it's plastic

bullets really aren't sharp
and they'd most certainly need to have much weaker explosives than a regular gun, because, yknow, it's plastic

There are various types of plastics out there that can handle these sorts of things now in modern today society.

Have you heard of Celazole?

no, I have not. how on earth would I have heard of such a thing? where did you even hear about it?

There is plastic as strong as steel now, bro. Has been around for awhile.

There is also lethal rubber bullets.

I think you're confused with BB guns and actual guns. Let me put it in perspective.

Your average BB gun shooting a steel pellet is about 200-400 fps which is enough to break the skin.


Your average shotgun shooting plastic pellets is about 900-1,500+ FPS which is enough to kill you no matter what.
Actually almost anything around 1,500+ would probably kill you. you could put legos in a shotgun shell and kill people with that.
« Last Edit: March 27, 2013, 04:24:10 AM by Thé Lord Tony »

LOL NO!

A hardened sharp piece of plastic traveling at 400m/s to 1500m/s is loving fatal.
so you are saying if I am skydiving with some other random dude, falling at 1500m/s, if that dude gains a little more speed and touches me, I'm dead?

so you are saying if I am skydiving with some other random dude, falling at 1500m/s, if that dude gains a little more speed and touches me, I'm dead?
...What? This is so stupid it hurts.


I think you're confused with BB guns and actual guns. Let me put it in perspective.

Your average BB gun shooting a steel pellet is about 200-400 fps which is enough to break the skin.


Your average shotgun shooting plastic pellets is about 900-1,500+ FPS which is enough to kill you no matter what.
Actually almost anything around 1,500+ would probably kill you. you could put legos in a shotgun shell and kill people with that.
Pretty much true. BB guns that shoots at around  600-800 FPS could be pretty fatal.



This is a pretty cool idea, nevertheless.

so you are saying if I am skydiving with some other random dude, falling at 1500m/s, if that dude gains a little more speed and touches me, I'm dead?

I don't even know how to give this an intelligent response.

...What? This is so stupid it hurts.

I have no idea what Lord Tony is going on about, but it can all be solved with physics. You could determine the damage of a bullet by finding it's kinetic energy. It's mass and velocity are what determines how much energy it has. Though the shape of the bullet and it's material also determines if it goes straight through or bounces around and forgets stuff up.

Legos would probably not kill a person, it might do some damage. The fact that they have a super low mass and that they're velocity would be low cause of stuff aerodynamics.

On top of this a rubber bullet is shaped like a normal bullet, and fires out of a normal gun like a normal bullet. It pretty much is a normal bullet except for the fact it's made of rubber. If you were to have a plastic bullet it could very well fall apart making it pretty much no lethal.

But the issue of a plastic gun is that all the energy shooting a bullet creates would pretty much destroy it. Seeing as how the receiver of the gun pretty much fell apart, and that really doesn't even have to stand up to that much energy.

In short. Physics motherforgeter, use it.