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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • Home made guns are legal (for the most part) as long as you are making them for yourself.

    Until very recently, making a decent gun took a lot of skill, and was pretty dangerous if something wasn’t done correctly.

    Part of the issue with gun laws is that gun parts, by themselves, are fairly unregulated. You can buy a gun barrel off the Internet with zero paperwork. You can buy optics, grips, springs, pins, etc without any regulations.

    So you can print a gun frame, then buy everything else online, and it’s all perfectly legal… In most states… If you don’t resell, or do anything illegal with it.

    The main catch is, if you can legally buy a gun, you can legally make that same gun.

    If that gun would be illegal to buy, it’s also illegal to make (full auto, suppressed, high capacity, etc.) but the biggest problem is, with the rise of CNC machines, and high quality 3d printing, how would anyone know?




  • It’s like anything else. There are super high quality mass produced printers for like $200, so if you want to make some prints for the lowest cost possible, that’s the way to go.

    If you want a hobby about learning and tweaking the printer itself, then yup, the open source printers are really good and fun to work with.

    If you want to make super strong, high quality prints for prototyping, or industrial applications, then you’re probably going to need to get a serious, real manufactured printer.

    The nice thing about 3d printing, is that there’s options for anyone’s interest level.