The problem is we decided to regulate the one piece of a firearm that’s now the easiest to 3d print.
Everything else you can buy online.
If we regulated barrels instead, people couldn’t make a Glock at home. And they definitely couldn’t make an AR
I think you vastly underestimate the gunprinting community, but it would make it more difficult for some people.
Yeah, go ahead and 3d print a barrel and let me know how that works out…
A barrel isn’t a straight pipe either, you’d need a CNC machine
I realize this isn’t what they’re printing in this case, but look up the FGC9. It’s designed to be made with hydraulic tubing and a 3d printed jig to elctro-discharge machine the rifling inside.
It’s perfectly possible to machine a gun barrel in your garage. Difficult, yes; prohibitively so, no. But like the other commenter said, it would at least cut down on homemade firearms
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I don’t know about you guys, but my super primitive knowledge of guns + the accuracy of my 3D printer (which pretty clearly doesn’t have fine tolerances), I’m not sure I would trust firing a gun I’ve made. Everything I print has something not quite right, like a corner that elephant foots a bit, or some stringing or whatever. Not anomalies I want to be dealing with when firing a gun, I don’t think.
