Journalism is at an end when it comes with a threat level:
The $1,200 Machine That Lets Anyone Make a Metal Gun at Home. And yesterday I passed a car with a
large window decal indictaing that the occupant was a CCW holder which I think is a technical felony in my state.
The terrifying reality of 3D-printed guns: Devices that ANYONE can make are quickly evolving into deadly weapons
It is one year since the first 3D-printed gun was unveiled to the world
Over the last 12 months the designs have become better and better
Many enthusiasts across the globe have been showing off their designs
MailOnline spoke to several users of 3D-printing gun site Fosscad
Some suggested the guns could be on a par with real guns in a year or two
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/...
Cody Rutledge Wilson (born January 31, 1988) is an American crypto-anarchist, free-market anarchist, and gun-rights activist, best known as a founder/director of Defense Distributed, a non-profit organization that develops and publishes open source gun designs, so-called "wiki weapons", suitable for 3D printing.
Defense Distributed gained international notoriety in 2013 when it published plans online for the Liberator, a functioning pistol that could be reproduced with a 3D printer. USA Carry named Wilson one of America's "30 Influential Pro-Gun Rights Advocates," and Wired Magazine's "Danger Room" has named him one of "The 15 Most Dangerous People in the World."
No, I think Vlad Putin, The Koch Brothers, and a whole bunch of the Khorasan Group are a shiton more dangerous.
Small arms proliferation is by far the real problem and it's less about production than it is about global arms distribution of existing non-3-D printer produced firearms. No doubt ISIL can buy several hundred 3-D printers if they had a mind to, and they may yet simply with the number of banks they've robbed. All the more reason to make them irrelevant although they seem to be much more effective these days with video cameras and knives. That a "crypto-anarchist" law student which seems itself oxymoronic wants to do this doesn't make me any more/less afraid of Texans or their stupidity about the Second Amendment, except to remind myself of the needless handwringing about firearms safety and regulation, and of course the stupidity of firearms use whether by civilians or LEOs. I care about everyone's safety before I care about the hypothetical anyone who can make a firearm when anyone with enough money can still get one pretty much anywhere or get killed by LEOs in the aisle of a WalMart for being the wrong color and handling a harmless replica. I worry even more about the
person with Ebola who went through Texas a couple of days ago. He's the most dangerous Open Carrier of all, and pandemic disease possession trumps all the epidemiological claims for firearms regulation.
Meet The 'Liberator': Test-Firing The World's First Fully 3D-Printed Gun Even with its ironic naming for a single shot mass produced gun designed to allow a resistance fighter to kill someone with a better gun during WWII, the message is lost on those fearing the number of unregulated manufactured and modified firearms available in the US that do not require sophisticaled micro CNC machines: https://www.google.com/...
Apr 02, 2009 Season 4 Episode 9
Colorado Springs has been overrun by anarchy and violence ... the culprit...Colorado's largest motorcycle gang- The Sons of Silence. Many members join for a world of gun-running, drug-dealing, partying, and mayhem. Since its inception in the late 1960's, the Sons of Silence have spread and now have 36 chapters throughout the world. Calling themselves the "Sons of Violence" and beating their enemies with large flashlights, the gang also sells drugs and illegal weapons, such as AK-47's, sten guns, and hand grenades. The Sons of Silence became so notorious that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) infiltrated their Colorado Springs chapter. Undercover agents participated in numerous meth and firearms deals caught on-camera, gathering footage that takes the viewer deep into the shady underworld of biker gangs.
As with the original
WWII Liberator the problem is about message and not the thing itself.
The pistol was valued as much for its psychological warfare effect as its actual field performance. It was believed that if vast quantities of these handguns could be delivered into Axis-occupied territory, it would have a devastating effect on the morale of occupying troops. The plan was to drop it in such great quantities that occupying forces could never capture or recover all of them. It was hoped that the thought of thousands of these unrecovered weapons potentially in the hands of the citizens of occupied countries would have a deleterious effect on enemy morale.
The FP-45 Liberator was a pistol manufactured by the United States military during World War II for use by resistance forces in occupied territories. The Liberator was never issued to American or other Allied troops and there is no documented instance of the weapon being used for its intended purpose, though the intended recipients, irregulars and resistance fighters, rarely kept detailed records due to the inherent risks if the records were captured by the enemy. Many FP-45 pistols were never distributed and were destroyed by Allied forces after the war; most of those distributed were lost or disposed of without any combat use
Oh wait, now I get it, we'll need the 3-D printed AR-15s to defend ourselves from Ebola Zombies...that's the ticket...
now if I can just get the 1200 bucks....