reminds me of the plastic gun used on a movie that passed through a metal detector undetected . Good thing our enemies are poor/s.
EXCERPT FROM WASHINGTON TIMES:
TEXAS, May 4, 2013 — Twenty-five year-old University of Texas law student, Cody Wilson, founder of Defense Distributed, says his company has developed the world’s first 3D-printed handgun. The gun, which is comprised of sixteen pieces, is called “The Liberator”; and with the exception of the firing pin, is made from Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), a common thermoplastic.
It is designed to fire standard handgun rounds, using interchangeable barrels for different calibers of ammunition.
The gun was printed using a Dimension SST printer from 3D printing company Stratasys. However, in October of last year, Stratasys seized a printer it had rented to Defense Distributed after the company learned how its machine was being used.
In March, Defense Distributed obtained a federal firearms license making it a legal gun manufacturer. The company also included in its design, a six ounce chunk of steel to be inserted into the body of the liberator to make it detectable by metal detectors in order to comply with the Undetectable Firearms Act.
According to its website, the specific purposes for which Defense Distributed is organized are “to defend the civil liberty of popular access to arms as guaranteed by the United States Constitution and affirmed by the United States Supreme Court, through facilitating global access to, and the collaborative production of, information and knowledge related to 3D printing of arms; and to publish and distribute, at no cost to the public, such information and knowledge in the promotion of the public interest.”
The company plans to promote its agenda by releasing the 3D-printable CAD files for the gun to its online collection of printable gun blueprints at Defcad.org, where anyone who can afford the formidable price of a 3D printer, will be able to download and print the gun, legally or not, with no serial number, background check, or any other regulatory restriction.
Here is the website:
And the bullets????