'It's alarming nationally': ALERT seizes nearly 100 3D-printed firearms in Alberta

Nearly 100 3D-printed firearms, handguns, and rifles were seized by ALERT as part of Project Reproduction

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The problem is we decided to regulate the one piece of a firearm that's now the easiest to 3d print.

Everything else you can buy online.

If we regulated barrels instead, people couldn't make a Glock at home. And they definitely couldn't make an AR
- I think you vastly underestimate the gunprinting community, but it would make it more difficult for some people.
  
  Yeah, go ahead and 3d print a barrel and let me know how that works out...
  
  A barrel isn't a straight pipe either, you'd need a CNC machine
I don't know about you guys, but my super primitive knowledge of guns + the accuracy of my 3D printer (which pretty clearly doesn't have fine tolerances), I'm not sure I would trust firing a gun I've made. Everything I print has something not quite right, like a corner that elephant foots a bit, or some stringing or whatever. Not anomalies I want to be dealing with when firing a gun, I don't think.

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