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Old 05-03-2013, 12:02 AM
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Originally Posted by g__day View Post
3d Printing is quite cheap nowadays.

There are some issues - like the kid in the US that printed an assault rifle (mind you its not (yet) printed from high carbon steel for the barrel) so firing a round through it would be disastrous.
This is not really true, this is what the news is broadcasting. They 3D printed the receiver section of the weapon and under test it only lasted 6 rounds before self destructing.

So long as you can print armored vests you should be right
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