After introducing 3D printer many useful things are made
including some body organs’ models from teaching purpose, bikini and car models
many design and many more. But now a 47 years old West Virginia carpenter named
Derwood made a gun which is created 95% using 3D printing technology.
He printed the structures and inner materials
and then used metallic spring and some other metal components. He named the gun
as Shuty-MP1. This is a semi automatic weapon which can fire 9mm bullet rounds by ejecting spent casing and reloading bullets one by one automatically.
According to Derwood “No one had
ever tried to get a semi-automatic 3-D printed gun working before…I’m just one
of those types, I like to find new things that people say can’t be done,” . Now
there is a big security question. But Derwood said that he’ll not publish the
CAD file of the gun. He added that criminals are unable to use the gun because
the plastic around the gun barrel begins to melt down after 18 shots and deform
unless it’s allowed to cool.
Here is the demonstration of Shuty Mp-1:
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