Oh, and in regards to 3d printing. I'm with you: this is a design that wouldn't benefit very much from additive manufacturing. That said, I WOULD implore you to take a look at the various 3d printed belt links, and the possibility of including a pawl or whatever would be necessary to run those. They are CHEAP compared to any other option, and they are extremely accessible. You wouldn't even always feel compelled to pick them up or whatever. They have quite a few designs and loaders. 

No, right sub. It's just that for some inexplicable reason the firearms community has been absolutely taken over by guys whose favorite color.om a gun is hot pink, are sexually aroused by other men's feet OR find it absolutely hilarious that others are and play along, constantly use weird teenage girl lingo from the early 2000's like "shooti boi" "looooong boi, boi pussi etc....." (since the mid Aughts, the boi has been a term almost exclusively used by the lgbtqabc+ folk as term to denote a boy who.....isn't boylike. Again, as in "boi pussi" to refer to their ass holes.......) make giant ball sacks an integral part of their printed pistol frame, etc. a lot of the YouTube channels have this vibe that is just.....SOOOO strange. Like psr/ print shoot repeat.....he prances around, his guns are always bright feminine colors, he does that weird stick your ass way out and blow a kiss thing that woman mostly do constantly, and just generally acts REALLY gay. But he is straight. I don't know if it's some kind of massive psyop to take one of the few groups left with competent men that act like men and utilize firearms culture as a tool to turn them into weird feminine twerking boi pussi loving American men.....the prevailing attitude of people age up to ten years younger is that it's "just joooookes, come on. Oh, your one of those macho MACHO guys. Gotta act all MANLY all the time. Are you insecure? Do you feel the need to overcompensate for something? I'm not gay, I'm just very secure in my sexuality and I'm hyper open minded and intelligent that's why I paint my finger nails, prance around and twerk, carry pink or purple guns exclusively, and am furiously obsessed with the feet of other men, likely gooning the hours away looking at dude feet and guns......." 🙄🙄🙄 It's just amazing to me how effective that psychology is. If you take it a little further......"real men that are straight are confident enough in their masculinity to take a dick in the ass. What are you, insecure? You scared you might be gay? You must be scared you'd like it.....why else would you not do it? If your NOT gay, take a dick? Are you one of those uneducated macho macho types? Drive a big truck? Got a little dick so you overcompensate? No? Oh, so you'll take a dick then?"  WEIRD. There is all the sudden massive cross over between furries and gun guys, especially 3d printing gun guys. They are the WEIRDEST. (I have an ender 3 and I print....but they have made the 3d printing culture just SOOOO weird. It is infused with SO much weird gay or feminine energy. I would pay money to understand it.....I work with this guy that's about ten years younger than me at the Ford dealership (we both work in the garage, not sales vampires, lol). He is a straight, normal dude. Likes cars. Loves guns. We talk about guns all the time. He is a country boy, or at least, was, he was raised that way. He has a girlfriend of 6 years. Dudes 23. He has a MASSIVE American flag on his arm that is rainbow colored and one of the bars says "ally"......he also paints his nails, they are always painted. I tried to talk to him about it one day. I basically got the same answer and logic that the other ten million clown clones that do all this junk hold: HE is hyper unique. HE is very intelligent, advanced, evolved....not like all those primitive backwards uneducated red necks. He is DIFFERENT. HE likes Nirvana, is an ally to the lgbtq people (which is SOOO relevant to him, he got it tattooed on his arm.....'i am a straight man who is just VERY VERY enthusiastic about people who prefer sex with the same sex......' just seems like such an odd arbitrary thing to be so wildly enthusiastic about....but of course, that's because he ISNT. He simply wishes to be perceived as such because society has REPEATEDLY insisted to him that that is what decent kind advanced evolved educated unique open minded people do .) and paints his nails. Blah blah blah, you don't care, and I don't know why I arbitrarily started ranting. Sorry. Seems crazy to waste ten minutes and then delete it though. So...gonna post it. Lol.