You ever wonder why the maker industry of the early 2000s died off or why there's not as much reporting on 3D printer technology as there used to be?

Or whether you should get into 3D printed guns or hot air balloons, today's guest has all those answers.

Welcome back to T-Rax Talk. This episode is going to be a guest interview with Hoffman Tactical.

And first, I want to introduce you as a local Tennessean, practically a neighbor, but you're

also involved in the firearm industry in kind of an interesting way. So why don't you explain

that in just a little bit of detail, however deep you want to go? Sure, yeah. Thanks for having me on

Isaac. I am actually in Tennessee here, so a bit further east, more real Tennessee, of course,

in central Tennessee. It's a bit of a spectrum there. You have the mountains,

yeah, for sure. Yeah, for sure there. But yeah, so I am involved in a little bit of an odd way in the

firearms industry, not from my perspective, but from more conventional perspective. So I designed

3D printed guns. And that's probably what I'm best well known for. And, you know, AR lowers basically kind of like 80%, which has been around for a while.

Most people kind of know what that means.

So it's like make your own gun in home, except rather than buying 80% receiver and machining it,

you're printing it on a 3D printer kind of just from scratch, if that makes sense.

So that's kind of the basic concept behind what we do.

Now, according to people on the internet who are, of course, experts, what you're doing

is completely 100% illegal and wrong and bad and evil and wicked and terrible.

Are any of those things actually true?

Also impossible. They blow up and they only

last a few rounds. That's also a fact from Reddit as well that I read. So, yeah. So it depends on

the area that you're in. So as far as functionality goes, at this point, it depends on what you want to print.

There's a lot of 3D printed designs available nowadays. I specialize in the AR platform because it's

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