[AlanHo]

BBC news today..

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Police are warning technology enthusiasts not to attempt to use 3D printers to make plastic guns, because each time they have been tested the weapons have exploded.

Relatively cheap plastic printed guns have been fired successfully in the United States.

Scientists in the UK say without additional expertise and the right type of ammunition, anyone attempting to fire one would probably maim or even kill themselves.

They also point out that to do so would be illegal.

Phil Mackie, has been given exclusive access to tests which have been carried out by the National Ballistics Intelligence Service in Birmingham

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It will really put people off when they read that killing themselves in this fashion is illegal.............

[The Gonz]

  I'll be satisfied with a custom themed chess set.

[Dazzler]

Yeah, I think people are still gunna try it! 

[Phil №❶]

The thought of the bullet casing and the fractured plastic gun housing, rocketing straight back to my eye is enough to stop me.

[Surferdude]

I reckon it's a case of natural selection.
If they try it, they don't belong in the human race.

I know a couple of guys who are 3D printing surfboard fins successfully. One in NZ and one in Port Macquarie.

[Dazzler]

The thought of the bullet casing and the fractured plastic gun housing, rocketing straight back to my eye is enough to stop me.

Not having a 3D printer is stopping me... 

[John B]

So what's all the fuss about I had a plastic gun years ago , sure enough it only fired water but it was plastic.