Ares Armor files restraining order against the BATFE.

[vontar]

http://aresarmor.com/store/Ares-Armor-dispute-with-the-ATF

 

 

This is from their website. Kinda crazy the ATF raided them after a court order was issued to not raid the place until after the court ruled. 

 

Sadly its a win win for the ATF.  In the wrong? oww well here is your stuff back.

 

Fruit of the forbidden tree now? 

[Hershmeister]

[quote name="semiautots" post="1125944" timestamp="1395088290"]Me wonders what will happen when 3D printing moves from plastic to metal. It's gonna happen. Then all this 80% crap will be moot, and AR-15 receivers will be as easy as a download. Edit: Guess I'm a little behind the times! [url="http://3dprinting.com/materials/metal/3d-printing-metal/"]http://3dprinting.com/materials/metal/3d-printing-metal/[/url] Here is one machine already on the market: [url="http://www.eos.info/systems_solutions/metal/systems_equipment/eos_m_400"]http://www.eos.info/systems_solutions/metal/systems_equipment/eos_m_400[/url] Here is a 1911 that was 3D printed. ATF is going to try to put the toothpaste back in the tube . . . [url="http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=3d+printing+in+metal&FORM=VIRE6#view=detail&mid=6A3954FD5165C12CA5DB6A3954FD5165C12CA5DB"]http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=3d+printing+in+metal&FORM=VIRE6#view=detail&mid=6A3954FD5165C12CA5DB6A3954FD5165C12CA5DB[/url] Can you imagine the home made armor piercing bullets, the specialty 12 gauge rounds, the home made pen guns and home made AOW's? [/quote] Already there - how do you think billet lowers are made? On a CNC machine

[Guest semiautots]

Already there - how do you think billet lowers are made? On a CNC machine

 

3D printing is much different from machining.  Two completely different techniques.  Machining grinds down a block of metal into form.  3D printing prints small layers of material upon itself until the object is formed.  3D printing can produce more complex objects that CNC machining.  Examples would be hollow balls, and objects that have interior requirements.  Imagine the room you're in now being replicated in small scale.  A 3D printer could do it; a CNC machine could not.

Watch the videos I posted and you'll understand.

[tnguy]

Hey BATF, Matthew Bracken writes fiction, not manuals.

[tnguy]

3D printing is much different from machining.  Two completely different techniques.  Machining grinds down a block of metal into form.  3D printing prints small layers of material upon itself until the object is formed.  3D printing can produce more complex objects that CNC machining.  Examples would be hollow balls, and objects that have interior requirements.  Imagine the room you're in now being replicated in small scale.  A 3D printer could do it; a CNC machine could not.

Watch the videos I posted and you'll understand.

 

True but a gun is not a complex object.

 

3D printing has its own issues with certain types of complex objects also and you can end up getting into some clever design to work around it.

[Chucktshoes]

[quote name="tnguy" post="1126293" timestamp="1395151762"]Hey BATF, Matthew Bracken writes fiction, not manuals.[/quote] I know, right?!

[JayC]

Sometime in the next 10 years either CNC or 3D metal printing will get to the point where the cost of the machine is about the same as a single receiver...  then it will be off to the races...

 

Gun Control will be no more at that point.

[Guest Brutnus]

Video talking about it.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqjYEFIwUT8

[KKing]

[quote name="Brutnus" post="1126710" timestamp="1395193470"]Video talking about it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqjYEFIwUT8[/quote] I like that guy. First time I've seen him though Edited March 19, 2014 by KKing