{"id":3591,"date":"2018-07-31T17:52:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T00:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3591"},"modified":"2018-07-31T18:07:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T01:07:00","slug":"most-everyone-should-stfu-about-printable-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3591","title":{"rendered":"Most Everyone Should STFU about Printable Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Printed plastic &#8220;guns&#8221; are a fucking joke. That&#8217;s because <em>any<\/em> plastic that a 3D printer can print with is way way <em>way<\/em> too weak to contain the energy produced by the burning powder sufficiently to impart significant force onto a projectile.<\/p>\n<p>In order to make a firearm, you want metal. Some pieces of steel plumbing pipe from the hardware store will work <em>far<\/em> better than printed plastic. It&#8217;s been possible to make firearms from <em>that<\/em> ever since hardware stores have been selling steel pipe. The result is called a zip gun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/new\/?p=1086\">Read what I posted back in 2013 first<\/a> (including the linked article) before you run off the rails about either a new level of threat due to unregulated gun ownership or a new level of liberty due to the newfound impossibility of regulating guns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Printed plastic &#8220;guns&#8221; are a fucking joke. That&#8217;s because any plastic that a 3D printer can print with is way way way too weak to contain the energy produced by the burning powder sufficiently to impart significant force onto a projectile. In order to make a firearm, you want metal. Some pieces of steel plumbing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}