3D Printed Firearm Smuggled Into Israeli Parliament By Reporters
Reporters from an Israeli news program entered the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, twice with a 3D printed pistol based on DefCad’s Liberator design. Haaretz.co.il reports (click through to watch the video) …
Team program “Night pipeline” of Channel 10, the cameras gun printed using three-dimensional printer, and managed to enter the Knesset with him twice. Written plan also came just a few meters from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Tested plastic gun firing range under the supervision of a retired police stands, and successfully fired a live bullet at a target made of cardboard.
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Too bad they did not use it on Netanyahu, lots of world issues solved with one trigger pull. Once again, media does not deliver.
Interesting the reporters deliberately omit that 3D printers essentially a create a foam- with microscopic voids- that has less strength than the equivalent conventional extruded product.
A "3d printed plastic gun" is in reality a plastic firecracker case waiting for just the right stresses to fail.
Nearly all 3D printers do not use DLMS or LMS (laser-sintered metal technologies- still being developed) but instead melt a polymer feed and deposit this as layers, without degassing or vacuum trapping tiny air bubbles.
This weakens any component.
BUT this microscopically swiss-cheese polymer, or metal is perfectly suitable for prototypes then are used to create casts & moulds for conventional, more rapid and cheaper manufacturing methods.
The issue should be about informing those who make such 3D printer weapons and fire them that their eye and hand safety is in danger- NOT politicians.
But still no HYSTERIA about fine pens and how a solid fine pen might disguise a fully safely operating firearm.