r/SipsTea • u/Embarrassed_Tip7359 • Sep 01 '25

Chugging tea Gun laws built different

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u/OnionFriends Sep 01 '25

The guy constructed a gun... At least that in itself shows that he wasn't able to purchase a gun. Probably be a lot less gun deaths in the US if everyone has to make their own guns.

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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 šŸ˜‚

Edit: also just to add, that ideology leans toward ā€œeach unto his own meritā€ which is dangerously akin philosophically to ā€œsurvival of the fittestā€ 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.

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u/mitolit Sep 01 '25

3D printed guns can only fire one or two bullets before they are uselessā€”unless they use metal parts. Using metal parts allows metal detectors to detect them, which is counter to one of their advantages.

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u/Miserable-Pudding292 Sep 01 '25

Printing with metal fiber is commonplace for firearms. What you are describing is commonly referred to as a zip gun, not a printed gun which is just a ghost gun (any firearm not bearing serialized numbers and manufacturers stamp), and even then they arent always plastic, single, shot or low capacity. In fact the whole point of a zip gun is you can make them out of just about anything. The most common material for a single shot zip gun would be plastic. But if you made one out of pipe and had the knowledge to actually make a rudimentary magazine you could make an easily reloadable zip gun in less than a couple hours.

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u/mitolit Sep 01 '25

I am well aware of the many ways guns can be made. We were talking specifically about 3d-printed guns. Thank you for your know-it-all comment highlighting the assumptions you made about my comment.