3D-Printed Semiautomatic .22 Debuts. “If you take my gun, I will simply print another one.”

Published at LiveLeak by Buck
O’Fama (just possibly a pseudonym) is this video
demonstration of a 3D-printed pistol version of a Ruger 10/22—a
popular semiautomatic .22 rifle. The receiver is 3D printed and
glued together, with metal parts added, including what appears to
be the bolt.

The text reads:

The pistol version of the popular Ruger 10/22 rifle, the Ruger
Charger comes standard with 10-round flush magazines and can accept
high-capacity mags holding 30 rounds or more. As demonstrated,
making one with a cheap small-format 3D printer and some parts
purchased on the internet (with no paperwork) is trivially
easy.

We don’t see the printing process, so we’ll have to take Buck
O’Fama’s word that the Ruger Charger was “printed in two sections
on an inexpensive, small-format 3D printer, and those sections were
crazy-glued together,” and joined with mail order parts. But this
seems a logical development of the 3D-printed firearms technology
that we’ve seen evolve over the last year-plus.

Solid Concepts, an engineering firm,
has fully 3D printed metal 1911-style pistols on high-end
printers, but this is the closest we’ve come so far—and damned
close it is, if this pans out—to a 3D-printed semiautomatice
firearm being produced on an inexpensive machine.

O’Fama closes closes the video by pointing out, “If you take my
gun, I will simply print another one.”