New FIRING plastic firearm now available...

The Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 covered that issue.

Interestingly, the most recent 10-year renewal of UFA88 sunsets in December of this year. A new all-plastic gun seems like the perfect basis for renewing the Act.
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I thought I remembered them passing some law about "plastic guns" when the Glock 17 became popular.

I don't see this ever becoming very widespread so long as the feds don't try to make conventional arms too much more difficult to get. I see this more as a poor substitute for the home defense shotgun when those aren't allowed.
 
To Hijack a bit on related question

This is my first post on these forums.

My question for more informed members is about the alleged plastic receiver for the Ar 15. He has claimed to have printed a complete receiver with his 3d method . Are there any springs, spring clips, bushings or other hard use parts in the receiver, or did he just print the outside cover for it?

This whole thing raises my skeptic side.

Dave
 
I would think that as pointed out before, this gun wouldn't quite be legal even with the metal strip. I remember they had to cut up the polymer gun from In the line of fire because of legal issues.
 
The first plastic gun to fire a cartridge was never intended to shoot a bullet i memory serves me well they were the tear gas guns of the 70's. Wonder if anyone ever saw one.

Kind of looked like the one John Malkovich used in the movie where he was trying to assassinate the president. Anyone remember those?
 
^Similar idea, but I think a zip gun is considered something more improvised, re-purposing things to make a firearm. This is something that is actually manufactured to be a firearm in the first place.

These people have also produced an AR-15 lower that works for a while. Which is a little bit beyond what anyone considers a zip-gun.
 
Dave, to answer your question I believe it was just the receiver assembly that was made of plastic, as well as the magazine. I believe feed ramps, guide rods, springs, and everything else were standard.
 
Interestingly, the most recent 10-year renewal of UFA88 sunsets in December of this year. A new all-plastic gun seems like the perfect basis for renewing the Act.
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There's already a push underway to renew it, and this will just pour grease on the fire.

Even in .22, I can't imagine the rifling will hold up long, and the overall lifespan of the gun probably isn't all that encouraging.
 
A number of you have questioned the ability for a plastic barrel to work properly. My first thought was the chamber in which the cartridge is held. They must be using custom casings which can withstand the sudden ignition of the power and direct the bullet down the barrel. Surely a plastic chamber would not provide enough support for a normal brass casing.
 
I think it's very interesting that the trigger was designed so flimsily, and that photos were released of the gun with the trigger snapped off. It makes me wonder how fast they are learning.

It seems like a short leap to a harmonica gun. The Dardick Tround also comes to mind.
 
An article I read today stated that he successfully fired a .380 cartridge in it, but then destroyed the gun with a barrel change and firing of a 5.7x28 (about 30k PSI over the .380 for maximum pressures). I find the concept very interesting, but I can't imagine a world where I'd risk firing one myself. I'll keep my steel guns, thank you very much.
 
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1. The original Liberator was designed to be used only few times in order to get real firearms from the occupying powers during WWII.

2. It was never really used in any theater.

3. It was quite small and concealable. This isn't.
I think it was more hoped that the original Liberator was only used a few times in order to procure better guns. Structurally, they could be used lots of times.

It was used in both theaters, though on a limited basis (~50,000 units) including being used in primarily Greece and China.
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I believe it was said that it took longer to reload the Liberator than it did to produce the thing.

The Brits dropped loads of them over France for the French resistance to find and was intended to be used once to kill a German and take his rifle, and the ability to be reloaded was not something high on the priority list, the main priorities were to be small, very cheap, and very easy to manufacture.
 
I can't see anything beyond renewing the already existing laws, which- though I admit I haven't read them- would seem to make sense. We all have an interest in firearms that can't be detected with metal detectors being illegal until technology produces another widely-available means to do so.

But haven't non-metallic- either plastic, or ceramic- been produced before outside of the 3D printing? IOW, is it the plastic firearm that's "new", or just the relative ease of producing it?
 
Technology Will Advance

It will move from a single shot firearm, to a revolver, and eventually someone will design a semi-auto version as the plastic technology develops.

This ought to create a little nervous twitch in the gun grabber's belly.
 
Considering the advances in polymers, I doubt it will be all that long before a reliable and durable barrel is made in some form of "plastic". Of course, it would be easy enough to avoid the issue for now with some form of sleeve, inside of the barrel.
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This is almost deja vu all over again! (Thank you, Yogi Berra)

In the 1950s a company named Armalite built an automatic rifle called the AR10 with a thin steel barrel inside some kind of carbon-fiber like material.

In testing, it blew the end of the barrel out. So they went to all steel, and were asked to go for a cartridge called the 5.56 in the AR15 and, well, you know the rest of the story...

Bart Noir
 
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