#printed guns

[tendie-defender]

[tendie-defender]

3d printed skeletonized Glock 9mm 32 rounder.

[tendie-defender]

First there was big chungus.

Then there was hung chungus.

Then hungus26

Then concealable chungus.

And now the future is PDW chungus.

[myturtlespeedy]

I know this probably isn’t the correct takeaway but that 3D printed gun they keep showing looks dumb as shit.

[bestof3dprinting]

Feds Tighten Restrictions on 3-D Printed Gun Files Online | WIRED

Should Americans be allowed to say and share whatever they want online, even if that “speech” is a blueprint for a gun?

That’s nice and all, but there are plenty of CAD files besides the ones specifically created by 3D gun printers.  Technology is moving faster than the government. 

[sehenzuwerden]

A few people are starting to "print" guns now using some kind of plastic layering device.

It is hardly surprising that, as civic violence recedes ever farther from our lives, some Americans are seized with the idea that they must "protect their freedom" with weapons. The only way that I can understand this phenomenon is as the desire for conflict with an increasingly disinterested, distant authority. This new, disparate cult of numb "sufferers" are the modern acolytes of an ancient force, worshiping Thanatos, searching through glazed eyes for a world in which only suffering unto death, is possible. To have suffered before the world, to have endured, publicly, even, from outside themselves, a terror which makes it impossible to live, and then to be destroyed--that is the dream. However, since these same individuals consider suicide evidence that one "is too weak" endure suffering which is still less than absolute, and because it is still possible to claim that suffering is not the only situation, they are at an impasse; it is necessary to give to the other, to all others, in the dream, the means to threaten suffering and then end one's own life. Like all martyrs, it is unconscionable to acquiesce to death unless the world is full of sin, unless their efforts to be righteous can be juxtaposed, broadly, openly, with a black futility. If everyone was armed, suffering as a condition of living might be affirmed, and it would no longer be possible to claim, as some now do, that no one is in danger of suffering except insofar as they invoke it. 

These conditions, however, are not a reason to be hopeful about a less fearful future. For those who realize that no human action can be determined, and, more broadly, that the vernacular of "terrorism" which pervades the nation admits of no "martyrs", there is little reason to think that these self-styled freedom fighters will be silenced until they are destroyed. People producing their own firearms today are the next domestic terrorists. As soon as they realize that no one is likely to "come for their guns", they will bring the guns to the authorities, killing in order to make material those longings which are now so far from what is real.

[apocketfullofdeez]

3D Printed Guns  Vice

[ih8apollodanger]

CLICK, PRINT, GUN: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE 3D-PRINTED GUN MOVEMENT

Being a novice in the 3D-printing world, I was once somewhat skeptical of what it would and could accomplish. I saw Makerbot CEO Bre Pettis on the cover of Wiredin late September, and while the novelty of the process incited wonder in my inner 10-year-old, I didn’t think much about it after the fact.

Enter Cody R. Wilson. Wilson is a 25-year-old University of Texas law student who is working to build semiautomatic weapons using a 3D printer. His name first came up in conversation with a colleague after he posted an Indiegogo pitch video demonstrating his intended use for a newly acquired Stratasys 3D printer, which Stratasys subsequently repossessed.

I was intrigued; Wilson seemed to be an articulate and tech-savvy mouthpiece for a movement that a large portion of the country would deem dangerous and off-limits. To find out more about his fight against gun control, I flew down to his home base of Austin, Texas, with a Motherboard film crew.

I first met Wilson at his apartment. I wasn’t sure what to make of him. He checked his phone every ten seconds and had a hard time making eye contact. Every other sentence ended with “Do you know what I mean?” and he spoke on topics ranging from progress in the 3D-printed gun movement to American politics to the inherent revolutionary nature of bitcoins. He showed us the CAD file for his lower receiver on his computer, while a five-foot American flag hung in his bedroom as a self-described ironic  statement. He’s a knowledgeable guy, and spoke at length about the development of Defense Distributed’s lower receiver, telling me that failure was a part of the scientific process. As he said, every time one of his designs fails, it offers more insight into what designs work. As time wore on, he became more relaxed, treating us more like peers than journalists. That line can often be very fine; it can be tough to integrate yourself into an unfamiliar social circle while still keeping a professional distance. So I found myself riding around Austin in his older BMW as he constantly checked his phone, which was somewhat unsettling.

But social niceties aside, we were there to watch Wilson build some guns.

Watch The New Vice documentary on 3-D Printed Guns below by clicking "Read More"