Is it possible to use a 3d printing pen to manufacture a firearm?
>>65144365It's not even possible to manufacture your pic related
>>65144366I didn't say it had to be good.
>>65144373Does it have to work more than once?
>>65144377No. It can be single fire
>>65144389Then I guess you could replicate every part of the Liberator and use some .22 short or whatever and perhaps not lose your hand.
>>65144390Yeah, this would be pretty epic for gun buy backs in California as 3d printers are now banned.
>>65144399>3d printers are now bannedlolHow are they gonna enforce that?
>>65144409Really it requires anyone with a 3d printer to get a license as a federal arms manufacturer, the 3d printer has a chinese backdoor into it that uploads your models to China to flag it for any suspicious objects. You technically can still make your own 3d printer to bypass the law, but to answer the question, they literally can't because it's already protected under the first amendment. It will be enforced after they hope a Democrat is president and doesn't wreck their buttholes in court because enforcing it now would create a huge fight with the DOJ.
>>65144409Oh and a 3d printed pen would technically allow a plastic gun still without 3d printers, it would be absolute hot fucking garbage but hilarious as California would have to go back to the drawing board when people are making guns out of fucking coat hangers with a soldering iron.
>>65144377Uwu, what's this?
>>65144365No but they're handy as fuck.
>>65144365I'd say no, I have a 3d pen like that and it's very hard to even get simple shapes correct. Now that might be a skill issue, but I've made functional firearms out of literal trash.>>65144377What gun is that?
>>65144415That's a personal recognizance and free speech issue. A man with patience and a file can make a functioning AK receiver from a shovel. Or in a garage machine shop. Never mind after your shift on the company CNC. Guns are a simple technology. Not using guns you make for crimes you shouldn't be committing is self-evident. Federal rules about serialized manufacture for sale are simple, and fair for personal use. California and Washington are attempting to stifle hobby level manufacturing over an edge case that is already legislated around (ie. gun crimes are gun crimes, regardless of source), which will directly impact the industrial skills of the next generation of workers. Note that neither of those states nor any of their ilk have attempted to do ANYTHING about autosears on ghetto Glocks.
>>65144389I would look into how hard it was to make a center punch .22 before I considered freehanding a gun with a plastic pen.
>>65145848>>65146091yeet22
>>65144409>3d printers are banned in ca? Wait, is this for real?
>>65146184>As of April/May 2026, proposed California legislation (AB 2047, the "California Firearm Printing Prevention Act") aims to strictly regulate 3D printers rather than issue a total ban, requiring state-certified "firearm blocking technology" on devices sold or transferred in the state. This bill would mandate that printers use software to scan for and block firearm components, essentially outlawing the sale of open-source, non-compliant machines.
>>65146199>Another Karen feel good bill written written by retards to appease even bigger retards that will solve literally nothingPlease when will the earthquake come to swallow up that fucking state
>>65144365Just make a mold and melt plastic into it holy shit, how inept is this generation. 3D printer and 3D pen plastic are not strong enough for shit. Ffs you can even cast metal or mill it yourself. How fucking lazy and retarded are you? People made guns for centuries without factories.
>>65146209It makes it harder for organized crime to source guns. If they can't manufacture weapons then they have to source it from out of state and that makes them easier to intercept. Not sure if it still applies but a few years ago, Colorado was a big source for 'Ghost Guns' in California The most effective part of the law is now there's bigger consequences for moving weapons across state lines for all parties involved, especially unregistered automatic weapons, we're talking major jail time for even touching one. California is a major economic powerhouse with a huge population, they have to be VERY broad when it comes to crime suppression
>>65146300Fucking spare me, with that logic they should ban mills, lathes and cnc machines. Fuck off with that shit. This ban will solve nothing. You have ppl in the rainforests making counterfeit colt ars in Central America. Also the organized crime that would use a 3d printer either already have them, get them from out of state, or will just hack the software to use one that’s not cucked. The toothpaste is out of the tube and this will do nothing but appease the liberal white Karens that are in their district who will vote for them in perpetuity.
>>65146325False equivalences about jungle artisans and homie on the black making tiktoks in his spare time aside, this isn't meant to completely stop the creation of ghost guns just make pinpointing WHO makes them easier for Law Enforcement. Limiting the supply chain is a legit strategy.
>>65146339Limiting a supply chain, you mean. Singular. Out of a field of chains that connect everywhere.
>>65146339It’s not a false equivalency, you can use a cnc machine, throw in an open source at receiver gcode and start making chips. What I was saying that it is so easy now that even a bunch of jungle beaners are doing it, so anyone with even a limited amount of technical or cnc know how can do it as easy as someone who has the bare bones knowledge of printer setup / prep work can print out a receiver
>>65146350You forget that scarcity in the jungle doesnt translate to the American Consumerist mind,The day that gangs have workshops full of employees lathing and machining weapon parts is the day they get fucked by the ATF because manufacturing weapons from scratch is a niche skill. Jamal from the block wants to drive his audi on the Freeway mackin bitches not making guns in a shop all day. Buying cheap, replacable tools is the default. Most organized crime in the US inherits the Capitalist mindset and wants to cut costs at every level of their operation, outsourcing their weapons is the only way they know how to operate
>>65146345and those chains have definitive destinations and customers. Monitor the traffic of the main movers and you can find the source easier
>>65146368Then you'll have to ban mills, lathes, and cnc machines as well. You talk like you learned law enforcement in a classroom; all parroted theory, no brain of your own behind it.
>>65146377see>>65146366Crime is not industrious enough to do that. You can't possibly be talking about lathes and cnc's and machining tools as if they're going to be used for mass production of cheap one time use firearms like a luddite are you?
>>65146300Your elected representatives are just trying to eliminate competition
>>65146379The amount of effort and knowledge in setting up a printer is the exact same as a cnc machine. For fucks sake they even use the same stl files in some cases. Singling out printers is solving absolutely nothing and comes from a place of total ignorance and from a place of utter cluelessness of real world application. You can’t legislate your way out of this, it is simply impossible. And anyone who tries is doing so because they are A retarded, or B a grifting sack of shit. Or in most cases C both
>>65146366You know printing on a 3d printer is not the same as printing a word document, you have to know what you are doing and you have to set up the machine to do so.You talk as if you never done any manufacturing before. Yes Jamal or Jose just are going to use the cheapest tool for the job, neither are going to use a cnc machine, lath, mill… and yes even a 3d printer. The weapons that they are utilizing are being procured in the usualManner off the black market which are stolen, smuggled, or straw purchased. Banning 3d printers is fucking pointless and will solve nothing
>>65146647>>65146656It'll cost criminal organizations money and increase their risks just to maintain their product, you aren't seeing the business aspect of it. Machining steel, machining aluminum? Expensive as fuck, where are you going to get a steady supply of aluminum to machine enough guns to supply your organization? 3d printed weapons are hot commodities to groups that need cheap, disposable, untraceable weapons fast. Making them harder to get a hold of is an economic decision that gangs and cartels have to factor into their operations now. Barriers and laws and regulations make it more expensive for them to operate.
>>65146300Criminals aren't printing guns. They don't need to. From organized crime to random individuals, none of them are printing guns to use in their crimes.
>>65146705They're not printing them, they're buying them from people who have the skills and materials to make them
>>65146740We’re going in circles. In what way is that different from buying from ppl who can cnc? I still don’t see how printers are being singled out while cnc is a thing. In the end the reason why this is being proposed is that 3d printing is the new hip thing and it’s in the media and it scares the liberal white women voter base when in reality the real issue of criminals getting firearms has little to nothing to do with printing simple as
>>65146694It’s also a fuck cheaper / easer to straw purchase a hipoint
>>65147068This is the answer, pearl clutchers tend to ban technology they fear and don't understand, they tried with airplanes and electricity when they were new.
Lotta fucking retards in this thread who think a 3d printed 22 is a better disposable crime gun than and old fashioned pipe gun or anything made by someone who took machine shop in highschool.Or that a state with that many illegal immigrants sneaking across the border is going to see criminals have the slightest fucking difficulty importing more than enough guns from elsewhere.
>>65147363we are at that point though, a ryno for example isn't perfect, parts break, not entirely reliable but much easier than making even a single shot zip gun. a nutty9 is going to be faster, easier and better than an equivalent 9mm, something like a luty or carlo made by a machinist.
>>65146694>3d printed weapons are hot commodities to groups that need cheap, disposable, untraceable weaponsWhat percent of guns used in crimes in California are 3D printed? What percent of ghost guns are simply 80% kits that need a few minutes with a drill press to complete? What percent are simply stolen? What percent are sold to criminals by feds, cops, and soldiers?
>>65144409ca is a shithole, you can still import and the law is unenforceable unless you are open about having one.
>>65144365how bad of an idea is making a glock frame out of PETG vs the standard PLA+
>>65148180very bad. it probably won't hurt you but it won't hold up.
>>65148319noted, i hope the rest of that spool is enough then. Well I guess it'll just make this 19 into a 26
>>65147435Good joke anon, 3D printing such a thing is simply impossible.
>>65148180Stop using PETG, it's trash. The one and only purpose it serves is if you need to make a part that you can leave in your car without getting too soft, AND you don't have an enclosure or a hardened nozzle.
>>65148364damn thing needed 127g of filament and i apparently had 128. I picked a good time to print that thing
>>65146300You sound like an idiot on account of all the stupid things you just said. You think criminals 3d print guns? You might even be a European idiot.
>>65146740Are you delusional? Criminals aren't buying 3d printed guns either.
