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u/floydsmoot May 25 '22

Not knowing much about 3D printing, would this gun just confiscated in Winnipeg be totally printed or need to buy parts from the US? How about the barrel?

Winnipeg police seize 3D-printed handgun in drug raid

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/winnipeg-police-seize-3d-printed-handgun-in-drug-raid/ar-AAXIPnG?li=AAggNb9

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u/CanadaGunsMod May 25 '22

The gun shown has a printed lower. The rest of the parts are available without a license in Canada, you wouldn't even need a PAL.

This is why we don't typically allow 3D printing posts here, unless it's a basic accessory. The optics of the whole thing is massively damaging for the sport. 3D printed lowers on cheap printers are garbage that will literally break with shot #1, but good printers can produce lowers that will withstand sustained use.

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u/SomeOutdoorsGuy Hello Oper8or? 📞 May 26 '22 edited May 26 '22

3D printed lowers on cheap printers are garbage that will literally break with shot #1

That is objectively false, a $250 Ender 3 can print high quality parts…

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u/CanadaGunsMod May 26 '22

Bud, I have an ender 3 upgraded to the tits and I still wouldn't trust a Glock lower to hold up to repeated use coming off that thing, especially with PLA, which is what this thing appears to be.

Handgun lowers are typically fiber reinforced nylon. While you can do nylon on FDM machines, you cannot get the fiber interconnect that you can with injection molding. And the last thing we need is people eating slides when the rails rip out of their printed lowers.

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u/SomeOutdoorsGuy Hello Oper8or? 📞 May 26 '22

I also have an Ender 3, there are plenty of people out there printing frames on them (PrintShootRepeat, see on YouTube). Besides, the majority of the stress on a polymer pistol frame is seen on the slide rails which have to be metal anyways.

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u/CanadaGunsMod May 26 '22

Even if the rails are metal, the bit where they have to interlock and not rip out of the plastic is still plastic.

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u/SomeOutdoorsGuy Hello Oper8or? 📞 May 26 '22

Like I said, plenty of examples online of it functioning perfectly fine. If you want to be ignorant to that, then that’s fine by me lol