3D Charlton

[Irish Stu]

Gun enthusiasts 3D-print a functioning Charlton Heston

US FIREARMS lobbyists have used a 3D printer to produce a fully-functioning Charlton Heston.

Heston’s vital statistics were programmed into the machine, which was then fed with 86kg of Lego bricks.

An NRA spokesman said: “Charlton was demanding his 2nd amendment rights before it’d even finished printing his mouth.

“However we’ve only done his top half. We turned the machine off when it started making his groin because watching that happen felt very gay.”

www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/international/gun-enthusiasts-3d-print-functioning-charlton-heston-2013050767766?utm_source=feedly

[Tex]

It's a different world these days.

[New Mama]

Kind of creepy.

[Irish Stu]

Read it again... it's a spoof story from a website that publishes similar such spoof stories every day. In this case the story is a spoof of the news of the first ever gun made using a 3D printer being fired. I don't know if it's been a big story across the pond but in the UK it has made it into most of the news broadcasts and newspapers :

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22424315

[Chicago Jake]

There was a recent CSI:New York episode about a 3D printed gun. In the story, the gun exploded on its second firing, killing the user.

Having a little bit of familiarity with 3D printing technology, I find it hard to believe that a gun made that way would survive even ONE firing. The material is not very strong right out of the printer. They would need some heavy-duty sintering or other type of heat treatment to make it practical.

[Irish Stu]

I value having hands, my eyesight and my dashing good looks too much to risk discharging a plastic gun and have it blow up in my face.

[Merlot Joe]

Give them some time and someone will make one work.

[Irish Stu]

Joe check out the video on the BBC news story link above... somebody just did.