Yes Another 3D Printed Gun - Semi-automatic Ruger Charger Pistol

[3D OZ]

Don't care what makes a Firearm "legally", what really matters is what makes one functionally, a common sense definition of a gun, and what this guy has done is fail to print an object capable of firing any sort of projectile.

By printing a vehicle cowl tag with a VIN number, the " only piece that is regulated, serialized, tracked, etc. It is the only part of the car that makes it a "car" legally, can I really claim to have 100% printed a car?
Of course not.
If I attach a barrel to a block of wood, slip a .22 round into the barrel and hit it with a hammer, firing the round off (probably disasterously), thus creating a firearm and then remove the barrel, is the block of wood still a firearm? Of course not.

He may have printed a regulated componant of a firearm, but 100% printed a firearm??? Rubbish.

fire·arm (frärm) n. A weapon, especially a pistol or rifle, capable of firing a projectile and using an explosive charge as a propellant.

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Under 26 USCA § 861 (a), firearms is defined as “"a shot gun or rifle having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length, or any other weapon, except a pistol or revolver, from which a shot is discharged by an explosive if such weapon is capable of being concealed on the person, or a machine gun, and includes a muffler or silencer for any firearm whether or not such firearm is included within the foregoing definition." United States v. Adams, 11 F. Supp. 216, 217 (S.D. Fla. 1935)

Case closed

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