Source: instructables.com
Despite the news and issues of gun violence; mass shooting around the world; and debate on gun control, the floodgates of gun control is left wide open with 3D printable guns. With the right tools, anyone anywhere can now tap into the supply of cheap, legal, nearly-undetectable firearms. As of August 1, anyone with internet access can download the schematics for an untraceable, plastic version of a semiautomatic rifle like the AR-15, and 3D print it in the privacy of their own home.
3D guns are made available, thanks to a court settlement against Defense Distributed, arguably the most vocal company working to create databases of 3D printable guns.
“All this Parkland stuff, the students, all these dreams of common sense gun reforms’? No. The internet will serve guns, the gun is downloadable. No amount of petitions or die-ins or anything else can change that,” Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson told WIRED in an article published in July.
Cody Rutledge Wilson, in 2013 designed and fired the world’s first entirely-3D-printed firearm. Once he knew it worked, Wilson uploaded the blueprints for The Liberator, his single-shot handgun that looks more like a factory reject water pistol than a dangerous weapon.
This, naturally, prompted a visit from the State Department. The government quickly shut down Defense Distributed’s website for violating the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) because his digital blueprints were available overseas.
But then in 2015, Wilson, along with a team of constitutional lawyers, sued the State Department for violating his First and Second Amendment rights. The lawsuit continued for years, ending in Wilson’s favour this June.
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