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But 3D-printing experts say that logic is dated and misses the point of the technology. Making guns for personal use has been legal for decades, but doing so has required machining know-how and a variety of parts. With 3-D printers, users download blueprints from the Internet, feed them into the machine, wait several hours and voila.

“Restrictions are difficult to enforce in a world where anybody can make anything,” said Hod Lipson, a 3-D printing expert at Cornell University and co-author of the new book, “Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing.” “Talking about old-fashioned control will be very ineffective.”

It is unclear how many people are trying to print their own gun parts and magazines. But Cody Wilson, a University of Texas law student who is leading the ideological and technical campaign for 3-D printed guns through an organization called Defense Distributed, said blueprints have been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times from his group’s Web site.

Screaming Flying Monkey wrote: Making guns for personal use has been legal for decades

baffled wrote:There's a guy, I can't remember which forum, who claims to have printed a gun. I want to say it was on Cal Guns, but I'm almost positive that's wrong. I also want to say the piece he printed was a .357 revolver, but I'm pretty sure that's wrong too.

All I know is there's at least one guy out there who claims to have pulled it off and not blown his own hand off firing the weapon.

Shapecharge wrote:How many times do you have to be told to shut the fuck up about America stuff?

protobuilder wrote:can you print a woman?

theoretically of course

a friend wants to know

Terry B. wrote:

protobuilder wrote:can you print a woman?

theoretically of course

a friend wants to know

Shapecharge wrote:How many times do you have to be told to shut the fuck up about America stuff?

j-cubed wrote:The link and the quote, "these two things do not go together"

The World’s First Entirely 3D-Printed Gun Fires Its First Shot

Just days after revealing that he was working on a 100-per-cent 3D-printed weapon, Cody Wilson appears to have successfully test-fired the Liberator pistol, a gun made entirely out of plastic. Great.

The Liberator is a fairly wonky-looking pistol, constructed entirely out of plastic — the only metal working component is the firing pin, which is a repurposed nail. It appears to fire .22 rimfire rounds, which are very small but still quite lethal when fired into a squishy human being.

Although the Liberator hasn’t exactly been stress-tested yet — Wilson only fired one round between the cut-shots of WWII era bombers — it does appear to work, which essentially means that yes, 3D-printed guns, are now a reality. But hey, according to Mr Wilson: “Yeah, they might be used [to kill people], but that’s not a reason not to make them”. And if one law student says so, there’s no reason to be worried, right?

Bobby wrote:Would it be possible to print a blueberrypie or a dildo for Andy?

Bobby wrote:So,reacting now to something I wrote on the 20th of february? as they say in Canada!

Testiclaw wrote:Prediction:

After the first incident involving any kind of 3D-printed weaponry (even if it's only a component or two) the Government will move to radically regulate it, somehow.

However, the real motivation for this will be to protect the "consumer" market we have: the idea of printing items at home instead of purchasing them threatens a great deal of business interests, and it won't stand if they have anything to do with it.

I'd buy stock in any company that produces 3D-printers or researches high-end polymer production and materials testing.

I have a few pieces I designed and 3D-printed on my shelf, next to me. It's pretty cool stuff.