(3DPrint.com PRO is available only to subscribers) In 2017, AM Research (then known as SmarTech Publishing) published what probably seemed like an odd research note to the AM industry at the time – an opportunity brief and opinion piece about a specific firearms component called a suppressor (commonly referred to as a silencer).A few years prior to that, a handful of specialist companies had begun producing the world’s first additively manufactured silencers.We immediately saw the potential, which could be summarized by three key tenets: Feature image courtesy of 3DPrint.com: An AI-generated rendering of suppressors produced using metal additive manufacturing.
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