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Could a gun be made at home?

An engineer claims to have taken the first steps toward doing so using a 3D printer.

Michael Guslick said last week in an online forum that he “printed” and fired the world’s first home-made, 3D-impressed gun more than 200 times. Guslick granted an exclusive interview to the Daily News, revealing just how easy it is to create a firearm at home at a time when gun control is back on the minds of millions of Americans following last month’s shootings in Colorado.

A 3D printer uses layers of plastic or other malleable materials to create items that range from jewelry to industrial parts — but, according to Guslick, no one has ever before used the home version to build a gun.

Under his online alias, “HaveBlue,” Guslick posted on the firearms forum AR15.com that he had 3D-printed the lower receiver of an AR-15, a semiautomatic rifle.

“To the best of my knowledge, this is the world's first 3D printed firearm to actually be tested,” he wrote last week.

Guslick said creating the rifle on his own “wasn’t that difficult.”

For $1,000, the engineer said he picked up a 3D printer that looks something like a mini-fridge. Guslick says the printers work like “computer controlled plastic dispensers.”

After slightly modifying gun blueprints that he said “have been floating around the Internet for quite some time,” the man began to print.

Thirty hours later, his home-crafted gun base was ready.

Guslick added some “furniture” - insider talk for the grip and stock - to the firearm and fired off about 200 rounds.

“It was extremely large and ungainly, but it worked,” he said, adding that the “barrier to entry is certainly being lowered,” since anyone with some technological knowledge could probably do what Guslick did. More at http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-08-01/news/32986150_1_gun-control
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There is another, a law student from Little Rock, Arkansas, who is pushing the envelope and trying to design a 3D printable firearm (he calls the WikiWeapon) that he will make available on the internet. For free. He said the following in an interview:

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...the founding fathers simply saw that the public militia was the reason to preserve the right to bear arms[, and that arms are] useful as instruments to bloodily overthrow your government. I hate to put it in such sharp terms, but let’s be honest about what it is. Guns are implements of war. War is a tool of political change.”

“The goal is not to get guns into as many hands as possible, the goal is simply to provide access. The goal is to say, ‘in this world, in the world we want to create, anyone who wants access to a firearm can have access. Because we believe that is a right that no one should be allowed to infringe. Especially political actors.” His vision was clearly one where where not only is the oversight of the ATF and the U.S. Government ceased for firearms ownership, but that anyone in the world can exercise their right of self defense and enact political change. “Gun rights are human rights.”

“The main question is, and I really don’t want to be the one to make the ATF come down on the site here, is what you’re making on your 3D printer a title 1 or a title 2 firearm? ....because it has a smooth bore due to the limitations of the material, or because its concealable and undetectable it might be a title 2.” Note: handguns with a smooth barrel are regulated under the National Firearms Act.

I haven’t submitted anything to the firearms technology branch or submitted a Form 1, and it’s not that I’m not going to do these things, but I realize that I’m on my own and when I do the ATF has a precedent on printable weapons. Do I want to be the guy to do that yet? To really ruin the home manufacturing system? [...]

“And then there’s all kinds of other legal questions. Basically you blow off the entire ATF regulatory structure once gun printing comes of age. You blow out all the licensing and everything.” More at http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2012/10/foghorn/an-interview-with-cod
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It's a ways off from being available to the public, but the time is unquestionably coming.

How encouraging. NOT. I say again; we have become a sick, sick society.