It just came to me that it is possible to print the whole 3d gun but the debate is whether it can handle a bullet. Why does it have to be a conventional bullet and not some super hard plastic 3d bullet. It will still be lethal.

Could a 3D printer produce a fully assembled firearm? I would think it would be pretty hard to produce something with all those parts inside.

Here's a picture of a fully disassembled Glock 17



Im wondering, could you produce each of those parts and then assemble the firearm? To me it seems it would be easier for the printer to just make each part, instead of the entire thing whole.

ETA - The parts in the purple outline are extra parts, the owner bought those as upgrades

It will be interesting to see how this all plays out, since the lower of an AR15 is really the only part that needs DROS/background check before purchase

The cool thing about 3-D printing is that you can make anything you want on your computer right now and have the files ready for when you get your hands on one of these printers. Its a hobby to me, I have tons of random things to print when I get ahold of one.

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I used a 3D printer to print parts for a bigger printer.

Then I assembled and used that bigger printer to make parts for a much, much bigger printer.

After assembly, I printed the world. It fell off the table and now my toe is broken!

Originally posted by Domo1
I'm waiting for one that can print me out Mila Kunis.

Why stop at just one Mila Kunis?

It would be nice to purchase an item online and then receive it right away through your printer. So not only would this kill factories, but possibly even a huge chunk of the shipping industry.

Also, it would be awesome if there was a way to make edible food, i spent my entire childhood wanting one of those food replicators on Star Trek The Next Generation.

Originally posted by Triesta
I just watched a video on how these items are made with the 3D printer. You need material to print out your object layer by layer. So I'm assuming the bigger printers that print out more than neti pots or bunny rabbits will cost you over 10K to begin with. Just imagine trying to print out motor vehicle parts such as tires or combustion engines. It would take mounds of material, energy and you'd still have to have the technical-know-how in order to assemble these products. This will not destroy manufacturing at the level that it's at currently, but perhaps in the future this technology will be upgraded somehow.

There was a time, only about 30+ years ago, when a 10 megabyte hard drive was the size of a dish washer and cost about $10k, and that was in 1980's dollars.

The price of these things will come down until they cost about as much as a dish washer. The only thing that will really stay costly is the materials used to build the stuff, probably, unless it's just made of basic materials. Printer toners are were they make their money for paper printing, not on the printers themselves.

Another thing, I saw a couple of years ago some doctors modified a standard ink-jet printer to print out human muscle organs, such as bladders and in theory new hearts and such could be made too. It literally sprayed the cells into place, layer by layer, until the new organ was built. Do that with cloned cells and you could start making replacement body parts for people...with an ink-jet printer. Tell me that's not weird.

Originally posted by LifeInDeath

Originally posted by Domo1
I'm waiting for one that can print me out Mila Kunis.

Why stop at just one Mila Kunis?

You Sir are a scholar and a gentleman. How could I have been so the opposite of selfish.

I really think that 3D printers are going to be the next big thing. I think they are going to be the next generations internet. Actually that makes me somewhat fearful... Internet can be a little scary...

Seriously though I really think this is going to be a huge thing and that we are lucky to get to see it start to take hold. These huge achievements of humanity seem to come faster and faster as we advance.

All that being said, where the F is my flying car? I want one. I want it now.

US aircraft carriers already posses this technology onboard for repairs