New 3D Printed Rifle Magazine Feeds Hundreds of Rounds
Defense DistributedThe contest between government
officials' desire to control everything and
independent-minded tinkerers' ability to put things entirely beyond
control continues, with the tinkerers enjoying yet the latest
victory. Sen. Dianne Feinstein may want to
limit firearms magazines to ten rounds, and New York may have
limited them to
seven rounds, but Defense Distributed has
developed a 30-round magazine design for AR-style rifles that can
be created in the privacy of your own workshop on a 3D printer and
relied upon to last for hundreds of shots. The new magazine is a
completely reworked design, dispensing with flaws that limited the
utility of earlier efforts
Appropriately enough, the new magazine is dubbed the "Cuomo," after New York's control-freaky governor. According to Wired:
In recent tests at a gun range near Austin, Texas, Defense Distributed fired a total of 342 rounds using the magazine with no issues, according to the group’s founder, Cody Wilson. The group fired 227 of those rounds using full automatic fire, while swapping out the barrels on the rifle to keep them cool.
On the video below, the new magazine can be seen standing up to the demands of full-automatic fire. You can find Defense Distributed's designs for the Cuomo, and for other gun parts and accessories, at DefCad.