Make your own....

[Polarbear]

I love watching 'Forged in Fire' and keep suggesting I could make a forge and try making knives. Trouble is wifey throws the veto card into the pot.

So, it seems you can go one step further than knives now, make your own working gun with a 3D printer.

https://home.bt.com/news/uk-news/first-uk-conviction-for-making-a-gun-with-a-3d-printer-11364370765672

I know nothing about this stuff. Would it be easy to do, and by working do they mean it would actually operate and shoot with ammo or it just goes through the motions and would happily blow your hand off if you tried to shoot a pikey.

It's pretty ugly though, can't you make a pretty one?

https://home.bt.com/images/first-uk-conviction-for-making-a-gun-with-a-3d-printer-136437076557340701-190619150018.jpg

In current affairs because you can bet every gangsta is out buying a 3D printer as we speak
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[Easy-X]

Gee-wiz, have you been in a coma? 3D-printing guns has been a thing for years!

Admittedly the first efforts were definitely the "handheld firework" variety but things have improved...

While you can print metal now the crucial parts of a gun - the barrel and breech - really need to be made out of some tough stuff if you want to put more than a round or two through the thing. Everything else though: body, grips, mags, etc. are all fair game for the traditional 3d-printer.

Back when the first gun plans went viral the Main Stream Hysteria went totally bat shit crazy about the tsunami of printed weapons about to hit the streets.

Thing is though anyone with some basic workshop tools could make perfectly serviceable guns waaaaaaaaaaaay before 3d printers were even a concept.

3d printed guns that may kill or maim the user on the first use = SEXY

Men in lockups reactivating guns and converting blank firers = NOT SEXY
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[Im-a-Ridah]

3D printed guns do work but are a bad idea. For a start you'll need to get your hands on rimfire bullets which is very difficult without a licence and you aren't going to be rolling your own. The simplest and safest option is steel hydraulic rated tubing with a shotgun shell in it. Shotguns are stupidly simple.

A legal shotgun is quite easy to obtain though. All you need is a shotgun certificate.

[Easy-X]

Bullets aren't hard to make... getting the powder would be the tough part!

Funny, easy as shotguns are to make or obtain they don't seem to have much caché with drug dealers
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[stinkwheel]

If, instead of using it to make things, you used 3D printing to make forms for casting, there is a whole hell of a lot you could make much better, more quickly and cheaply. Be that resin casting for plastics or metal casting of illegal firearms.

3D print ONE, make a silicone putty mould of it. Make lots more.
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[Minty]

Delicious irony, it was my 3d printed gun that shot out all Polarbears boat windows.
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[Sister Sledge]

With guns the hardest part is obtaining ammunition.
I wouldn't trust a plastic-based weapon though. Even if it had metal components within.

As mentioned, shotguns are easy to make.
I mean look at these: Just a firing mechanism for blank alarm cartridges:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bisley-Alarm-Mine/323801159027?_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140122125356%26meid%3D8ca87635dd9e4e7abb7a53548438a2b3%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D6%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D263397247668%26itm%3D323801159027&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851

And those cartridges can be had without a licence. So easy to customise those things:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/12g-12-Gauge-Saluting-Refill-Alarm-Mine-Henry-Blank-Like-Krank-Bisley-Shotgun/192946388886?_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140122125356%26meid%3D072554c52f904a418f193e1412109b99%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D5%26sd%3D323801159027%26itm%3D192946388886&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851

I think we're being watched now..
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[Sister Sledge]

Or how about these? Cheap, no ticket needed and have plenty of oommph. Just needs something in front of them and you have a lethal weapon.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nail-Gun-Cartridges-DX-Hilti-Compatible-Light-Medium-Heavy-Duty/332056077816?hash=item4d5015a5f8:m:m6as_FgLvXULrg56uKem1xg&frcectupt=true
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[Im-a-Ridah]

[Nobby the Bastard]

Why print a barrel thats likely to explode on first use when every school has a lathe?
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[Im-a-Ridah]

[Sister Sledge]

I'm itching to show how easily it could be done in a shed but fear a knock at the door!

I do know someone who was sent down for making live rifles from air rifles. He was good with hand tools and it was all done at home. As I'd said, ammunition is key to making your own.
Saying that, you could mill down some simple ingredients (aluminium foil etc) and make your own charge.
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[Easy-X]

I fairly sure I read somewhere that there's a lot more polymer parts in the later gen Glock 23, anyhoo...

Plastic gun to get through airport scanners? Maybe old skool x-rays but don't they use microwave stuff now? Regardless, how are you going to get around the bullets being made of metal?!
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[Riejufixing]

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[Easy-X]

Which one am I thinking of... a compact Glock with a (mostly) polymer slide?
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