Comment on Why 3D-Printing an Untraceable Ghost Gun Is Easier Than Ever (Podcast 18mins)

• magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The only regulated parts (I know of) are:

  • receiver (considered the actual gun)
  • suppressors
  • autosears (or anything else that makes your gun fully automatic, or even act like it)
  • big magazines (not federal but a lot of states have laws on em’)

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    autosears

    Autosears themselves are not actually regulated. It’s the action of fully automatic fire that is. Which is kind of ridiculous because it’s not terribly uncommon to have a gun do it by accident on worn out parts.

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  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wild. I suppose, thinking about it, it’s also way quicker to iterate on, test, and improve too.

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• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The components are traceable either. They don’t have serial numbers on them. Typically only the lower receiver does. This is why that’s the part that’s typically 3D-printed.

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• joel_feila@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Those would hard to teace and yu can pay cash. How many stores sell metal pipe withthe same inner diameter as a 45 caliber. It would be lole tracing meth lab by ammonia sales.

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  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Depends. He used a printed glock, not an FGC2.0. The FGC uses parts like you describe but printed glocks just take glock parts.

    That said, it’s still fairly trivial to acquire those glock parts anonymously.

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• venusaur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, you can’t easily print an entire gun, but the parts you buy don’t necessarily tie you to the gun.

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• shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Which is obviously why you buy them with Monero instead.

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