@Godcast @deprecated_ii honestly a lot of the effort of the 3d printing guns could be better spent figuring out how to assemble a full auto AK platform rifle on your backyard with off the shelf steel tubing, springs and iron/steel casting for the bolt.
"but how well would the U channel profile hold for an AK? that is precision stamped steel and the stamp pattern and rivets reinforce the reciever"
brandon herrera, a mexican, figured out how to use steel U channel on the AK-50, a gun that at first was theorized impossible to made with a stamped reciever.