“CTG analysts have recently discovered disturbing advancements in 3D-printed ammunition posted on public social media forums. These collective groups have published the process to produce new designs on .stl files which are used in conjunction with computer aided design software. Developments include the production of shell casings, primers, large fin-stabilized projectiles capable of carrying a payload, and complete cartridges. The rapid technical innovations present significant challenges to security, weapons detection, export control, and governance. While these developments are in their testing phases, the potential for widespread, uncontrolled proliferation has prompted CTG to issue a preemptive Flash Alert to give law enforcement and policymakers the appropriate time to respond.
New users and developers will likely create competition, accelerating this technology. The accessibility of 3D- printers in Europe and East Asia will likely facilitate the recruitment of new designers. Independent enthusiasts will likely translate the technical manuals, CAD software, and .stl files into German, French, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and Italian, and then spread them through encrypted communications like Telegram or Signal.
- CTG recommends that CAD software companies like Fusion360 or Solidworks cooperate with international policing organizations like Europol and Interpol to restrict dual-use designs.
- CTG recommends that international law enforcement agencies like Europol and Interpol conduct specific investigations into anti-authoritarian social networks interested in 3D-printing.
- CTG recommends monitoring locations with access to the technology needed to create 3D-printed ammunition like Technical Universities, Industrial parks, manufacturing companies, 3D-printing shops, and collaborative workspaces
Analysis indicates there is a HIGH PROBABILITY the lethality and proliferation of 3D-printed ammunition will increase over time, with a HIGH PROBABILITY threat actors will attempt to smuggle these weapons past airports and security personnel. The threat actors will ALMOST CERTAINLY use these weapons for high-profile assassination attempts. Extremist groups will LIKELY mass produce 3D-printed ammunition, VERY LIKELY circumventing existing international firearms regulations.”
Impro Guns 
CTG another .gov funded think tank with new and better ways to oppress the masses.
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This is why people need to stick to good old fashion sheet metal guns, they can banned 3d printer, 3d files, etc. But they can never ban sheet metal and metal working tools.
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The whole point of 3D printing guns is that it’s doable by people who need a gun but can’t work metal. We need to start looking into homemade 3D printers and homemade filament that can handle the task, strengthening the weak links in the chain.
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Ender3
Cheap, reliable.
It will get the job done
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I understand homemade filaments but homemade 3d printer? That’s beyond a pipe dream
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That’s too difficult for some people, 3D printing is supposed to lower the barrier of entry. Though people who CAN make metal firearms should pick them over 3D printed firearms, without a doubt, unless for magazines since they’re difficult to make.
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Not as much as a pipe dream as a future where naysaying retards acknowledge the real-world use cases of 3D-printed firearms instead of trying to prop up a far more difficult means of DIY firearm production.
And on this blog of all places? Featuring articles about FGC-9s being discovered every week or so?
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A lot of the early developments in 3D printers were the results of entirely home built printers. The reprap concept, form example. The first 3D printer I ever saw up close was a kit build from parts sourced from ebay. There are freely licensed and open source options for all of the necessary software, both for CAD design and running the printer. Heck, there are even designs out there for home built filament makers. While a government certainly could make 3D printing a restricted technology, it would only be in the same way that they have been able to make methamphetamine a restricted drug. Last I checked, anybody with three brain cells and an internet connection could make it.
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British underworld gunsmith Grant Wilkinson sold MAC-10 copies for £2,500 each ($3000) which he was turning out in his shed workshop wholesale. He made about £250k if I recall correctly. He only got caught because a neighbor got curious and entered his soundproofed test firing range and saw shell cases on the floor.
As law and order inevitably declines in Britain like the rest of western Europe, such operations will become quite common. The ‘law’ will be seen as a joke by both respectful people and criminals alike. If you have any sense in such situations you’ll be looking to arm yourself regardless of any legal consequences.
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Yeah, but by the time both people as in respectful people and criminals will see them as a joke instead of just criminals it already is too late. Because then the tyranny is just simply too much to handle, just like in China where every single of your movements, your purchases, your text messages, your phone calls, your goddamn neighbors get paid to inform on you, you will be completely f0cd.
Since even their internet is restricted, and no when the restrictions are BUILT-IN on browsers. Just like currently we have even here in our such an lovely and freedom place called “Western Europe”, an VPN won’t help jack s on your Google results or anything other to gain either. Mostly just gets you past the most common websites, that do it on purpose. Which most people just don’t realize that they do that, unlike people with the best of the best IT & especially IT-Security school knowledge knows.
Since your browser leaves a mark, and no you cannot choose an older version (go ahead and try it) Because that shit will auto-update itself to a newer one, and every installation package leaves trails so that in future you cannot go back no matter how badly you want it. Since even if you’d completely buy an untouched computer from 90s-2000s, it will still ask you to update the browser and system as in Windows 10 (most untrustworthy piece of s) claiming that Windows 7 isn’t reliable anymore when it is the opposite. The newer your windows is, the more ways there are to hack it.
I cannot even comment further, since my comment simply won’t pass. Because of the very same stuff that i already told, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
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Yeah no. Wilkinson paid £500 for the replica MAC-10s, which were made in the UK. After he converted them to live-fire, they were sold for £2,500, including ammunition. It is believed middlemen sold them on to criminal gangs.
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UK Police also offered 10,000£ offer to tips leading to the mac-10 manufacturers arrest. Just like they do in China today, and other countries with similarly tyrannical state where people are already thinking in mentality of “We have already lost, mind as well be on their good side”.
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