Excuse me while all debate over gun bans becomes instantly null-and-void thanks to technology.

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SamuelRSmith on 25 March 2013

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/download-this-gun-3d-printed-semi-automatic-fires-over-600-rounds/

3D printers + BitTorrent + Liberty Activists = free-to-download AR-15

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badgenome on 25 March 2013

This just means we need 3D printer control.

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SamuelRSmith on 25 March 2013

badgenome said:
This just means we need 3D printer control.

pfft... and what if 3D printers could print 3D printers?

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badgenome on 25 March 2013

SamuelRSmith said:

pfft... and what if 3D printers could print 3D printers?

Then anarchy reigns.

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huiii on 25 March 2013

Just get rid of the ammo... guns are no use without that...

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damn, how did they print the metal parts? the sight? also when they stop debating gun control they might aswell stop the war on drugs

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CDiablo on 25 March 2013

I wonder if this technology will make ballistic mark forensics irrelevant. Could the printers print copies so well that they will have all the same barrels and striking pins?

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SamuelRSmith on 25 March 2013

chapset said:
damn, how did they print the metal parts? the sight? also when they stop debating gun control they might aswell stop the war on drugs

According to the team running it, the ultimate plan is to make guns that are 100% printable. I can't for the life of me find out how close they are to this, and how much of the gun in that video was printed, and how much assembly was required afterwards.

http://defensedistributed.com/proofgun-2/

What IS interesting, however, is that you can already download a 30-round magazine, making magazine cap legislation even more fruitless than it originally was:

http://defcad.org/ar-15-magazine-30-round-mag/

FYI mods, the DoJ have said that this is 100% legal. No laws are being broken, here.