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I understand the intent, but feel that there are so many other loopholes that put much worse weapons on the street than a printer. Besides, my prints can barely sustain normal use, much less a bullet being fired from them. I would think that this is more of a risk to the person holding the gun than who it's pointing at.

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[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Don’t you just need a pipe of the right size capped at one end, and a nail?

[–] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, a 3/4 inch pipe will fit a 12 gauge shell pretty well, and some pipes will stand a lot of psi.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

Luty SMG is an improvement on that. For 3d printers check out the FGC 9. Neither are hard.

[–] deFrisselle@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

People also build potato gun powerful enough to put on through a car door and then some