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Tautology  ·  4195 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is It Legal To 3-D Print A Handgun?

In the future it will probably be illegal to 3D print a gun with a working firing pin or lower receiver. Those are the only parts of a gun you need a licence to buy with current US law.





thenewgreen  ·  4194 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Are those components essential to a functioning gun?

Tautology  ·  4194 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yep, those are the important and hard to make bits of a gun.

vlehto  ·  4030 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Barrel is hardest to make. And currently only part that is not easily printed.