Sipsey Street Irregulars: Praxis: More along the lines of "The Futility of Gun Control Laws in America." Free downloadable files for CNC gunsmithing!

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Praxis: More along the lines of "The Futility of Gun Control Laws in America." Free downloadable files for CNC gunsmithing!

AR uppers and lowers, Kalashnikov receiver, AR-10 lower, M1911 Frame, etc., etc.

From Wikipedia:

Computer Numerical Control Machines

Most CNC milling machines (also called machining centers) are computer controlled vertical mills with the ability to move the spindle vertically along the Z-axis. This extra degree of freedom permits their use in diesinking, engraving applications, and 2.5D surfaces such as relief sculptures. When combined with the use of conical tools or a ball nose cutter, it also significantly improves milling precision without impacting speed, providing a cost-efficient alternative to most flat-surface hand-engraving work.

CNC machines can exist in virtually any of the forms of manual machinery, like horizontal mills. The most advanced CNC milling-machines, the multiaxis machine, add two more axes in addition to the three normal axes (XYZ). Horizontal milling machines also have a C or Q axis, allowing the horizontally mounted workpiece to be rotated, essentially allowing asymmetric and eccentric turning. The fifth axis (B axis) controls the tilt of the tool itself. When all of these axes are used in conjunction with each other, extremely complicated geometries, even organic geometries such as a human head can be made with relative ease with these machines. But the skill to program such geometries is beyond that of most operators. Therefore, 5-axis milling machines are practically always programmed with CAM.

With the declining price of computers and open source CNC software, the entry price of CNC machines has plummeted.

How many CNC machines do you think there are in the United States today?

7 comments:

Anonymous said...: Many CNC machines have been exported to China and India. The price has plummeted from $300K per unit to as low as $7K in the midwest/rust belt. However, those cheap prices drew in foreign investors who bought the machines from companies who outsourced all the labor to the far east, etc.; December 6, 2012 at 8:29 AM
SDH said...: Check out this link to a San Diego TV station report titled "People line up to legally make untraceable guns" http://www.10news.com/news/investigations/people-line-up-to-legally-make-untraceable-guns

Even in the Peoples Republic of Mexifornia...; December 6, 2012 at 1:34 PM
Ed said...: Here is someone that transformed a used $2 shovel into an AK pattern rifle receiver:

http://www.northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/threads/179192-DIY-Shovel-AK-photo-tsunami-warning; December 6, 2012 at 3:59 PM
Anonymous said...: Folks have been making fine firearms way before the days of computer controlled production. With a good jig setup and some basic skills, one can churn out quite a few designs with little more than hand tools, a small bridgeport and a lathe.

Metalworking, Woodworking, Tailoring, Farming, are all science and not magic. A book or two on each subject and some practical experience is worth more than any case of ammunition or freeze-dried rations.; December 7, 2012 at 1:37 AM
Maddawg308 said...: I know 4 guys who have lathes and mills that are die-hard IIIpers. When TSHTF, they said they are going to start making things like you wouldn't believe.; December 7, 2012 at 6:13 AM
Aj said...: Remember, folks. John Browning made the prototype 1911 that he submitted for evaluation in a shed with no electricity.; December 7, 2012 at 8:58 AM
Loren said...: Some links of relevance to the post, perhaps you might repost:

http://www.lindsaybks.com/
http://www.lindsaybks.com/dgjp/index.html
http://opensourcemachine.org/; December 7, 2012 at 4:42 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Thursday, December 6, 2012

Praxis: More along the lines of "The Futility of Gun Control Laws in America." Free downloadable files for CNC gunsmithing!

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