Experts warn of the use of wrong materials by the printing of a weapon. Most 3d printers use plastic that is not suitable for the high pressures where a weapon is involved. Recently became a fully functional weapon using a 3d-printer produced.
Jonathan Rowley, the design director of a London-based company that users at a fee of 3d objects to print, it warns on the blog of the company that people with a normal, consumer-3d-printer no weapons should print. The plastic that printers used, is absolutely not suitable for the high pressure to which a weapon is exposed when it is fired, confirms another expert opposite the British newspaper The Guardian.
Recently published the American student Cody Wilson, the cad files for a fully functional weapon using a 3d printer was manufactured. The printer that Rowley used, however, was a professional 3d printer, and the successful test does not at all mean that tests with other materials and other 3d printers, it will be successful. “All of what Cody Wilson has shown is that he has not blown up when he produces with a certain machine and material”, says Rowley compared to The Guardian.
Material that cannot withstand the pressure, then the device can succumb to the pressure, which in practice means that the weapon explodes. The pieces of plastic that are around to fly, could be a danger to both the user of the device as bystanders. There is also a danger that the plastic of the gun by the heat during firing is distorted, making the weapon less accurate. The production process also has an impact on the quality of the weapon, and can cause the weapon is not solid enough. Rowley thinks that at this moment a greater danger than that someone is deliberately using a 3d printed weapon is killed.