On November 7th, the company announced the world's first 3D-printed metal semi-automatic pistol dubbed the M1911-DMLS, Solid Concepts' pistol has been based on the Century-old design by John Moses Browning, rather than on another commercially-available pistol or a proprietary design, for a plethora of reasons. The springs are basically the sole parts in the M1911-DMLS that aren't manufactured out of DMLS Nonetheless, it's still a more accessible level of technology than a fully-blown gunmaking company: anybody with enough funds to start a small-to-medium enterprise can easily access the required technologies to come out with something fantastic, like Solid Concepts did. Their know-how and technological levels are definitely way higher than the ones that an average citizen may enjoy with his/her own 3D printer at home, and these manufacturing capabilities are at a far cry from the couple thousand dollars required to purchase the necessary 3D printer type to manufacture a DefDist 'Liberator' single-shot polymer pistol all by yourself. works in the field of rapid prototyping and custom manufacturing services, and has fully-developed capabilities capabilities in PolyJet, Stereolithography (SLA), 3D Color Prints, Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), 3D Metal Printing, Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), CNC models and patterns, composites, and QuantumCast™ advanced cast urethanes.

The latest chapter − and frontier − in the history of 3D-printed firearms comes once again from the United States, more specifically from Solid Concepts Inc., a small start-up company headquartered in Austin, Texas. The M1911-DMLS is almost 100% manufactured out of direct metal laser sinterization The recent discovery of what seemed to be a clandestine workshop manufacturing 3D guns and gun parts in Manchester, in the tightly gun-controlled UK, appears to be nothing more, nothing less than yet another demonstration of how gun control failed in practice and will always fail more and more as technology and informations evolve and freely circulate in this modern era: all attempts at restricting the peoples' rights to keep and bear arms will only leave law-abiding citizens to be easy, unarmed preys of illegally-armed criminals. Paradoxally, said attempts tragically backfired on the anti-gun lobbies, as the DefDist CADs continued to circulate over the Internet and the number of downloads boomed, while at the same time there was a sharp rise − particularly in the United States − of individuals designing and 3D-printing their own polymer guns and gun parts. Department of State to shut down its Websites following the on-line publication of the necessary files for the manufacture of their 'Liberator' model − the first fully functional single-shot pistol that could be manufactured out of polymer through an average house 3D printer − Government entities and gun control movements worldwide tried to push further restrictions on guns and on the diffusion of information and technologies upon fear than 'anybody' could 'easily' manufacture 'his own working gun'. Ever since the DefDist - Defense Distributed company was forced by the U.S. Whoever has been following both the specialized press and the news at large will be by now well aware what the fuss is all about with 3D-printed guns and gun parts.

Solid Concepts is an FFL-licensed company, and manufactured the M1911-DMLS prototype fully legally

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