Liberator plastic gun rebuttal

[Walsingham]

From El Reg

 

People are missing one important point about the "Liberator" 3D-printed "plastic gun": it isn't any more a gun than any other very short piece of plastic pipe is a "gun".

 

You can take my Liberator ... and shove it

Seriously. That's all a Liberator is: a particularly crappy pipe, because it is made of lots of laminated layers in a 3D printer. Attached to the back of the pipe is a needlessly bulky and complicated mechanism allowing you to bang a lump of plastic with a nail in it against the end of the pipe.

 

[Gorgon]

If it only fires one shot wouldn't you be better off making a barrel in a workshop and a pen or full sized gun out of that. That's how they do in many slums across the world.

[Raithe]

I think a lot of people are treating it more in that "proof of concept" role rather then being seriously dangerous/compromising in it's own right.

 

Although a lot of press do seem to be pushing the sillyness aspect of "oh my god, the sky is faaaalllllling!!!" with it.

[Walsingham]

I think this is missing the much more important point that you could make kickass nerf guns.