First 3D-printed gun fired

[W.G.Ewald]

Video: First 3D-printed gun fired - Telegraph

Instructions for making The Liberator, a plastic handgun that could escape detection by conventional airport security, were today made freely available to download from the internet by anti-government activists in the US.

It was created by a group in Texas that aims to make "WikiWeapons" that can be reproduced with a home computer and a $1,000 (£644) 3D printer that uses heated plastics instead of ink.

"It's a demonstration that technology will allow access to things that governments would otherwise say that you shouldn't have access to," Cody Wilson, the leader of Defense Distributed, told The Daily Telegraph.

"Things that there are legitimate demands for will be available," said Mr Wilson, 25, who is described as a free-market anarchist. "That's the point we want to make."

Video footage showed Mr Wilson successfully test firing the gun at a target.

 

[asianobserve]

Ah, American democracy is about to get better!

 

[W.G.Ewald]

The USA is a representative republic.

The Telegraph's gratuitous evoking of "anti-government activists" is irrelevant to the technology

Home-made weapons have been used for all history.

Consider the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Danish Resistance to the Nazis.

 

[asianobserve]

The USA is a representative republic.

The Telegraph's gratuitous evoking of "anti-government activists" is irrelevant to the technology

Home-made weapons have been used for all history.

Consider the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Danish Resistance to the Nazis.

The gun manufacturers behind NRA will not be happy, that's for sure....

 

[W.G.Ewald]

The gun manufacturers behind NRA will not be happy, that's for sure....

The NRA is made up of gun owners and citizens who support the 2nd amendment. Gun manufacturers support the NRA mainly by advertising in NRA publications.

3D printing isn't going to put any arms manufacturer out of business, or even be competitive. But you know that, don't you?

Where the home industry needs to thrive is in reloading of ammunition, since Janet Napolitano is trying to buy up all the ammo she can.

» Big Sis Ignores Congressman’s Demand For Briefing on Bullet Buys Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

 

[W.G.Ewald]

More here:

Google Image Result for http://www.apk2000.dk/netavisen/billeder/Hist/194505xx_Hipo_besejeren.jpg

 

[Singh]

http://defenceforumindia.com/forum/...ted-semi-automatic-fires-over-600-rounds.html

 

[hit&run]

How plastic barrel would endure projectiles ?

 

[W.G.Ewald]

How plastic barrel would endure projectiles ?

It needs to fire only once. You kill a soldier with it and take his weapon. That was the principle of the simple weapons provided to insurgents in WWII.

 

[The Last Stand]

It needs to fire only once. You kill a soldier with it and take his weapon. That was the principle of the simple weapons provided to insurgents in WWII.

And if the round misses? After all, plastic barrel cannot be properly rifled and you have to reload this gun manually.