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Current status of 3D printed ammo development (forum.guncadindex.com)
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Does anyone know the current state of 3D printed ammunition research? Specifically looking for info on the BLC tests and 3dprinted .380 ACP projects（case also 3dprinted）. Since a lot of the usual Discord/FOSSCAD channels are down, I’m trying to find where the community is currently documenting these developments.

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[–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

Do all of the printed ammo you've created have to have a locked breech to function properly/safely? I assume with the 43R and all previous ammo they do, but the .380 ACP project sounds like you were starting to make some progress into ammo that's safe for blowback operation. If I missed something and there already is blowback safe ammo, was it powerful enough to be equivalent to .32 ACP?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    It's something that has been worked on, but I have kinda lost interest in it. No one wants to help beta test it. I've gotten it to cycle a decker. Someone apparently got a modified fgc9 to cycle 9mm deep, but I haven't seen it. Another guy in BLC was working on some other modified 9mm cartridge in the decker platform as well

    As for energy, it was closer to 22lr. And 32 auto has about the same energy as 380, so yeah, it's not that powerful.

    So far all of my ammo projects are for manual actions. It just works better, and these kinds of guns are still really neat.

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