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Re:DIY rifles are untraceable and completely legal by zkms on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @07:03PM (#14251491)
In US, the receiver of the firearm is legally the firearm -- everything else is just boring bits of metal that you can buy without any sort of legal encumberments. Anyone can buy a chunk of 7075 aluminium that looks like an AR-15 lower receiver but, critically, has enough milling not-yet-done such that the ATF has blessed it to not be a firearm. Some time with a proper jig and a drill press can convert it into a working lower receiver! You don't even need a CNC.

But you don't even to buy such an "80% lower receiver" to do this -- you can just make your own lower receiver out of most anything (it need not stand firearm chamber pressures, unlike the bolt carrier / bolt and barrel, which are much harder to DIY), up to and including wood.

Murders done with rifles are quite rare (an overwhelming majority of murder is done with handguns, per FBI's Uniform Crime Report) so the disproportionate focus on the evils of such "ghost guns" / "DIY rifles" is baffling.

Re:DIY rifles are untraceable and completely legal by salesguy222 on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @08:05PM (#14251923)
Time for some career politicians and grassroots campaigners to drum up a witch hunt to "regulate 3D printers" so that nobody out there can make a receiver without a permit ^.^
Re:DIY rifles are untraceable and completely legal by flyingfences on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @09:16AM (#14255349)
They've been doing that for quite some time. Do a search for "Ghost Gun" and have a laugh at California's politicians.
Re:DIY rifles are untraceable and completely legal by jjeaff on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @01:27PM (#14257986)
Luckily not a single anti gun politician has a bit of sense regarding guns or the disposition to ask an expert.

Making the barrel the serial numbered and tracked portion of a gun would make it much more difficult to machine at home.

Then they could just leave the 3d printer industry alone.

Re:DIY rifles are untraceable and completely legal by jjeaff on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @01:23PM (#14257951)
You don't even need a drill press. You can do it rather easily with a jig and hand held router. And the jig usually comes with the 80 percent receiver.