Meet the Reason

[PawPaw]

It's a metal, 3-D printed gun. Looks like a 1911.

The weapon was made mostly out of stainless steel with store-bought grips, using an EOS M280 3D printer. It chambers 10mm ammo and features the word "Reason" printed in the slide, and the preamble to the Declaration of Independence on the front of the grip.

Tha's just cool. And ATF craps their collective pants.

[First Shirt]

Want!! Want, badly!!!!

If he'd make it in .45ACP, it would be perfect!

[D5CAV]

That is a game-changer!

"Reason" was the name of the weapon in "Snow Crash":

Reason is a railgun in a rotary cannon configuration which fires depleted uranium flechettes. It is mounted to a large, wheeled ammunition box and is equipped with a harness for user comfort, a nuclear battery pack, and a water-cooled heat exchanger. The weapon, created by Ng, was still in beta testing, and suffers a software crash during a battle. Hiro is later able to apply a firmware update, and uses it until its ammunition supply is depleted. It bears, in inscription on its nameplate, the Latin phrase Ultima Ratio Regum, "the last argument of kings" (i.e. violence).

Which allows the author to use the great line, "Maybe they'll listen to Reason."

[skb12172]

Saw it in the MSM. Did a happy dance.

[Flintlock Tom]

It's cool that technology is advancing in this direction, but, what is the attraction for firearms owners? Easy? Private? Unique?
The tech is still too expensive for most hobbyists, or to compete with traditional manufacturing, so garage mechanics are not going to be cranking out undocumented firearms. If it's an undocumented handgun you're after an unfinished 1911 frame can be had for $150 and can be finished with a drill, a Dremel tool and a file.

[JAG2955]

Sort of want that frontstrap engraving...

[slowpoke]

It's cool that technology is advancing in this direction, but, what is the attraction for firearms owners? Easy? Private? Unique?
The tech is still too expensive for most hobbyists, or to compete with traditional manufacturing...

All this was said about full color printing twenty years ago. Cant compete with a print shop.

[randy]

Practical or not, I love the fear such things instill in the control freak statists.

[The Wizard]

Just another step toward Star Trek replicators.
I approve.

[HTRN]

And ATF craps their collective pants.

Yeah, they're terrified of a machine that costs 3/4 of a million dollars, and not the fact that used B'port can be had for a grand and a half basically every day on Craigslist.