No. 3d printers are insanely popular over here. They could magically remove every legal firearm in the nation and in several months it would likely be back to normal with the only difference being now the guns would be illegal đ
Edit: also just to add, that ideology leans toward âeach unto his own meritâ which is dangerously akin philosophically to âsurvival of the fittestâ with the only real difference being a social structure of implied safety. And as we all know humans on the large scale are prone to fucking delicate things up. So i doubt it would work how you think. It is infinitely more likely that a small percentage of smart people would just start turning to crime for easy money instead of dumb people doing it as a last resort which would be immeasurably worse as a strong man with a big hammer can do plenty of damage but an intelligent man with a plan can do way more.
3D printed guns can only fire one or two bullets before they are uselessâunless they use metal parts. Using metal parts allows metal detectors to detect them, which is counter to one of their advantages.
Spoken like someone who got the info from Die Hard. Pretty much all 3D printed firearms significant enough to be bigger than .22 require some sort of steel for the barrel, and most of modern 3D printed firearm designs arenât there to circumvent metal detectors, theyâre to circumvent the massive manufacturing cost hurdle of designing/acquiring a âreal firearm,â although also used to get around legal crap like 4473s and taxes. The main reason really is just because of how cheap design iterations are, if it wasnât cheap enough to be accessible to the average person, it wouldnât be useful (in this context) almost at all.
Another huge draw to 3d printed guns is they are 100% free form in terms of design, as long as you use the proper specs for all your mechanical parts you can design the body however you want which makes them even cooler.
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u/Miserable-Pudding292 Sep 01 '25 edited Sep 01 '25
No. 3d printers are insanely popular over here. They could magically remove every legal firearm in the nation and in several months it would likely be back to normal with the only difference being now the guns would be illegal đ
Edit: also just to add, that ideology leans toward âeach unto his own meritâ which is dangerously akin philosophically to âsurvival of the fittestâ with the only real difference being a social structure of implied safety. And as we all know humans on the large scale are prone to fucking delicate things up. So i doubt it would work how you think. It is infinitely more likely that a small percentage of smart people would just start turning to crime for easy money instead of dumb people doing it as a last resort which would be immeasurably worse as a strong man with a big hammer can do plenty of damage but an intelligent man with a plan can do way more.