Cody Wilson, spokesman for the 3D printing of firearms and founder of Defense Distributed, says he plans to publish specifications for a gun he has given the name “the Liberator” in the next week.
This will allow any American with access to the 3D printer to print the firearm without having to worry about things like serial number, background check or waiting for approval. It writes Techhive.
There are in fact allowed the United States to create their own weapons, as long as they are not sold or used by others.
In an interview with Forbes tells Wilson that he wrote the prototype of “the Liberator” with a Stratasys Dimension SST printer with ASB plastic. The gun has 16 parts. The only parts he has used is not plastic, a nail and a small piece of steel that allows for metal detectors to watch the firearm – making the weapon legally under Udetectable Firearms Act in the United States.
can be exploited by criminals and terrorists
Wilson has license to distribute and sell firearms, and recently started its own search engine called Defcad. This lets people share 3D blueprints of including parts for firearms. In an interview with Techhive not long ago, Wilson admitted that terrorists and criminals could exploit and use 3D printers to print arms.
Firearms is a hot debated issue in the United States, particularly in the wake of the massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.
Want law against plastic 3D guns
Steve Israel from Congress in New York has taken a stand against 3D printing of weapons by proposing an update of the Undetectable Firearms Act, so it should frame 3D print-guns.
– When I began to address the problems associated with plastic guns a few months ago I was told that the very idea of ??a gun made of only plastic was pure science fiction. Now this technology is real, and we must act now to extend the ban on plastic guns. It writes Steve Israel in a post Friday.
– No moral dilemma
3D printing has in recent years become increasingly popular. First and foremost among technology enthusiasts, who like to make things as toys, robots, dresses, or small statues, but also among architects, designers and manufacturing sectors have 3D printing has become increasingly important in the past.
Now it’s Cody Wilson as changing 3D landscape, not to mention the debate around this. Wilson himself says he does not see any moral dilemma with what he does.
– We pursue what we think is a step towards freedom, and although this scares people – well, this is how we see it – freedom is scary and it is becoming less one can do to control how anyone can make a firearm, he said to Techhive in March.
Not in Norway
In Norway must, we believe Chapter V relating to the manufacture of firearms in the Act relating to firearms and ammunition have license to make weapons. One must also be 18 years and have permission from the Chief of Police and firearms license.
There is thus no reason to fear a flood of legitimate, home-printed, weapons in Norway soon.
– Weapons Act § 2 defines in detail the weapon parts that are subject to registration. Weapons Act § § 20 and 21 sets out the conditions for producing weapons (required police permission).
The said section manager Steinar Talgø the Police Directorate of Legal Department, to NRK.no in February.
– These rules will fully apply to the production of weapons, regardless of how production takes place.
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