Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Police arrest 45, seize 440 guns targeting 3D-printed guns

Castanet is reporting that "A Quebec-based anti-gun unit says 45 people have been arrested and 440 guns have been seized in raids targeting manufacturers of 3D-printed or "ghost" guns across eight provinces." I don't know how real 3D guns are. I don't know. I'm not even sure how a 3D printer works. Obviously if they work it's going to become a problem because criminals will use them. The gun in the picture looks kind of dumb.

Obviously you're going to need a steel barrel and order some kind of hammer or striker mechanism to fire it. Maybe that's what they're doing. It's "legal" to order barrels and firing mechanisms seperatelty. Perhaps you should require a firearms license to do that.

I assumed you already did require one. If not, they should change that given the ability of printing up the rest of a gun on a 3D printer. As far as them being untraceable GMAFB. All the stolen guns criminals use are untraceable. That's why they often leave them at the scene and call them throwaways. They leave it at the scene because it's not traceable but if they are caught with it after the fact they could be implicated.

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  1. Ah, the gun fiasco. Put these on Trudy’s desk and ask him how many were “registered”……

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  2. They work, you are right they do have to order the barrel and other bits. I watched a video on You Tube where buddy 3d printed a 50cal and it worked fine. The life span is shorter than a properly built gun obviously but the I think for these types of guns they will be used for 1 scenario what ever that may be and then discarded.

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  3. To add: They are also printing the switch to turn a Glock into a full auto machine pistol.

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    1. Fully auto on 10 rounds is pointless.

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    2. I agree but you can get or "print" clips up to 33 rounds.

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    3. Yes that's true. Doesn't apply to me because I don't have any prohibited magazines. Full auto is more something you associate with an assault rifle. Yet ammo is so expensive now, no one can afford it. It just reinforces the fact that criminals don't obey gun control laws. Many of them have lifetime firearm bans which means nothing.

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    4. I totally agree the gun control laws make 0 sense, it only prevents law abiding citizens from obtaining firearms. It's clearly there for that reason to take away the peoples right to protect themselves.

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  4. Pretty sure u can 3d print metal. So u can make the firing and slide mechanism and buy a barrel or mod one up. Atleast they going after illegal guns and leave us law abides alone for the moment......

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    1. Metal printing printers are expensive and rarely used as the parts it prints are usually beefy it has trouble printing small intricate strong parts.

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