Tag: defdist
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Defense Distributed Downloads Shut Down By DOD
Took only a few days for this to happen: #DEFCAD has gone dark at the request of the Department of Defense Trade Controls. Take it up with the Secretary of State. — Defense Distributed (@DefDist) May 9, 2013 Looks like the 3D printed firearm made the waves founder Cody Wilson was hoping it would make.…
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Vice Documentary On 3D Printed Firearms
Sweet, the full documentary is finally out: Besides the erroneous use of “ammunition clips” and “high capacity magazines”, the documentary is really awesome. If you’ve been keeping up with my past posts on Defense Distributed and Cody Wilson a lot of it probably isn’t new to you. Interesting comments about kids likely being the first…
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Defense Distributed Cody Wilson Talks With Alex Jones
40 minutes long, and definitely worth watching: *facepalm* 22 seconds in and Alex Jones starts saying “clips” twice instead of magazines. Then he says it a few more times throughout the video. K i’m officially on team Cody Wilson… 2 videos back to back is good enough for me, the kid is now likable. We rock the…
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Defense Distributed Is Richer Than You
They have another few printers that print money: Full writeup and more pics over at DefDist. My suspicions were correct when I criticized the function test of this printed AR-15 lower: The new AR lower was SLA and FDM printed. The FDM printer was a used Dimension SST, and the material was p400 ABS. A quick look at…
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Defense Distributed AR-15 Lower
These guys market this like they are doing the Lord’s work: Watching that guy pull the trigger was painful. Slappy Mc2ndKnuckleSlapperson. Maybe I’ll eat my words when someone says they printed that out on a $200 RepRap, but my guess is they have some sort of fancy printer similar to the $20,000 one Stratasys yanked their…