Good thing we built a police station on GMR

[PeoplesElbow]

Someone was just shot in broad daylight right across the street. Imagine if we didn't have that fancy new police station.

 

[Sneakers]

Just like a Covid vaccine.... it was never meant to prevent crime, just lessen the symptoms.

 

[Gilligan]

ferals gonna feral...

 

[Bare-ya-cuda]

I think knits time to start a thread of all the shootings happening over the last couple of years in the park.

 

[PeoplesElbow]

We need Batman Frank Castle.

 

[Grumpy]

We need Batman Frank Castle.

Paul Kersey

 

[PeoplesElbow]

Paul Kersey

Too nice.

 

[glhs837]

Had a guy in the FB comments saying the issue was them 3d printed ghost guns.... And yes, he's speaking of the lex park area.

 

[L'Town.girl]

Had a guy in the FB comments saying the issue was them 3d printed ghost guns.... And yes, he's speaking of the lex park area.

Yeah. Funny. Those 3D printed guns tend to shoot all by themselves. Bad 3D printed guns.

 

[PeoplesElbow]

Had a guy in the FB comments saying the issue was them 3d printed ghost guns.... And yes, he's speaking of the lex park area.

I have a 3d printer, the consumer versions require quite a bit of skill/tinkering to get them to make a decent print even of something minor. We are talking calibrations, messing around with settings, having quite a bit of mechanical ability etc. They are not like an inkjet printer, infact there are companies that exist just to buy up the printers returned to amazon because "it don't work" and they resale them at a discount (Comgrow is the best known). Then someone has to understand their slicer software, even if someone else made the model. Making the model themselves requires someone to have a very good working skill of Solidworks or Fusion360.

Making a gun with a 3D printer is probably harder than it would be to buy a hobbiest CNC machine and make it out of steel.

The idea people had about 10 years ago of printing out car parts etc instead of going to the store to buy them was complete bullshit.

 

[Sneakers]

I have a 3d printer, the consumer versions require quite a bit of skill/tinkering to get them to make a decent print even of something minor. We are talking calibrations, messing around with settings, having quite a bit of mechanical ability etc. They are not like an inkjet printer, infact there are companies that exist just to buy up the printers returned to amazon because "it don't work" and they resale them at a discount (Comgrow is the best known). Then someone has to understand their slicer software, even if someone else made the model. Making the model themselves requires someone to have a very good working skill of Solidworks or Fusion360.

Making a gun with a 3D printer is probably harder than it would be to buy a hobbiest CNC machine and make it out of steel.

The idea people had about 10 years ago of printing out car parts etc instead of going to the store to buy them was complete bullshit.

But in a town ths small, only one or two people need to figure it out, and then make everyone else a copy.

 

[Kyle]

I'll save my money for when the replicators are ready.

 

[Gilligan]

What I've seen showing up around here are not 3D printed guns...that's mostly media BS. What are being built are "kits" using 80% lowers and all the parts for the upper slide and barrel etc.....all readily available on the internets. I've seen some very poorly/crudely finished 80% lowers that still make the gun functional and go "bang"....although unreliable and wildly inaccurate. Not that those bangers ever hit anything except at point blank range anyway. It's all in their technique:

 

[glhs837]

But in a town ths small, only one or two people need to figure it out, and then make everyone else a copy.

Right, but when you are competing with the glut every three years from a Tackle Box robbery, its hard........

 

[Gilligan]

Right, but when you are competing with the glut every three years from a Tackle Box robbery, its hard........

...a veritable "drop in the bucket" actually...