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throwaway290today at 7:32 AM4 repliesview on HN

> they don't stop weapons (lots of airports outside the US have simple metal detectors for that.)

There are 3D printed guns.


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fc417fc802today at 8:03 AM

Those tend to have extremely limited usefulness. Good enough to assassinate a single person at point blank range before they catastrophically fail but (unless something has changed) not much else. Plastic just isn't cut out for the job.

drob518today at 9:40 AM

You still need metal parts, notably a gun barrel capable of holding extreme pressures until the bullet gets up to speed. That isn’t plastic. The grip and frame might be plastic, but not the barrel.

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koshergweilotoday at 8:41 AM

Don't you still need metal bullets for the 3d printed gun?

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erutoday at 10:52 AM

You are better off using a lathe to make a gun.