3D Printed Guns

The bullet is still metal though, and not 3D printed, all they have to do is regulate the bullet instead of the gun.

Seriously, a cheap flintlock pistol/rifle replica (which you can easily buy and modify to actually work) would be safer for the user than that thing.

Nobody is talking about the gun firing when the trigger is pulled. The gun is firing when the trigger is explicitly not pulled. Even if you're talking about the video the parent comment linked, the very first few seconds of the video show the gun discharging without a finger anywhere near the trigger. That's a deadly design flaw that in any other industry should have resulted in a full recall. Here, it was known and covered up while innocent people who made no operational error were ma

Remember that a hammer and a pair of pliers is also a "gun" if you happen to have a bullet. Its dangerous to fire, hard to aim, and has a very low muzzle velocity, but it does meet the criteria.

It wouldn't work anyways, people would just make their own bullets.

Yeah, firing a gun into the dirt is much safer. If you have a giggle switch make sure you can handle the recoil, otherwise you might shoot yourself or someone else in the foot.

I don't own a gun (I've never even shot a gun before), but I came across this video on YouTube and I'm really impressed with how thoughtfully this BioFire gun was designed. If I did ever purchase a gun, I think for sure I'd insist on something like this, since the main risk seems to be your kids finding it or an attacker overpowering you and shooting you with your own gun, both of which would be prevented by this. Also you don't have to worry about someone stealing the g

It's a creative thought but this kind of thinking is in direct contradiction to the widely accepted principles of safe firearm handling. Trying to mitigate the damage of negligent discharges is the wrong problem to solve. In this case it sounds like the negligence may belong to the manufacturer in which case these weapons should be scrapped.

Additional info via https://twitter.com/winkelsdorf/status/1451439068861116421 (translated, a little condensed): In order to use blanks, the weapon has to be modified because of reduced pressure from the blanks. Otherwise the weapon would not reload (think machinegun that only can do one shot you see the reason). The modification depends on the type of weapon

The same way you fire a plastic gun without it compromising its integrity:http://www.wired.com/2014/05/3d-printed-guns/