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3DPrint.comTorwell Begins Offering Color Changing 3D Printer Filament At Under $20/kg3DPrint.comI have had several individuals, whom I know personally, tell me that the cost of filament has prevented them from buying a 3D printer. As competition heats up within the filament space, you would think we would be seeing a decent drop in prices, but …
3D-Printed Semiautomatic .22 Debuts. "If you take my gun, I will simply print another one." (Reason Magazine – Hit and Run)
Published at LiveLeak by Buck O'Fama (just _possibly_ a pseudonym) is this video demonstration of a 3D-printed pistol version of a Ruger 10/22—a popular semiautomatic .22 rifle. The receiver is 3D printed and glued together, with metal parts added, including what appears to be the bolt (and, I assume, a synthetic after-market stock*).
The text reads:
> The pistol version of the popular Ruger 10/22 rifle, the Ruger Charger comes standard with 10-round flush magazines and can accept high-capacity mags holding 30 rounds or more. As demonstrated, making one with a cheap small- format 3D printer and some parts purchased on the internet (with no paperwork) is trivially easy.
We don't see the printing process, so we'll have to take Buck O'Fama's word that the Ruger Charger was "printed in two sections on an inexpensive, small- format 3D printer, and those sections were crazy-glued together," and joined with mail order parts. But this seems a logical development of the 3D-printed firearms technology that we've seen evolve over the last year-plus.
Solid Concepts, an engineering firm, has fully 3D printed metal 1911-style pistols on high-end printers, but this is the closest we've come so far—and damned close it …
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