Gun availability via printer - maybe!

[Talon]

Making a single shot percussion pistol is incredibly easy with basic tools (well when I say basic I mean a lathe),a decent quality recurve bow is harder to make.I can't see much sense in that printable gun, especially in the states where guns are freely available (and most likely will remain to be at least in our lifetime)

[Mortblanc]

The 3-D pistol has been removed from the internet by our STATE Department!

This may mean nothing to you in Britain but it is a real development here.

Until now the State Department has had nothing to do with firearms or the internet. Firearms are controlled by a special section of the treasury department called the ATFE (alcohol/tobacco/firearms/explosives).

The reasons for the State Department stepping in was due to international arms control treaty.

The plans for the weapon were downloaded 100,000 times with the largest number outside the U.S. going to Spain, then GB. The website has gone dark but the plans are out there now and can be obtained by anyone with the ability to track them.

For me it is not the design of the weapon, the means of producing it or the materials that are important, it is access to the plans as freedom of information and resistance to censorship as well as access to the ability to defend oneself.

[Franc]

the plans for the gun, and other useful stuff are available on pirate bay, via the usual proxies.

[Skean Dhude]

History shows that you can't close Pandora's Box once it is openned but bless em, they try every time. Simple minded souls.

[Mortblanc]

[Timelord]

Seeing as the plans are already out there, I would like to get hold of the plans to build an atomic bomb for undisclosed use as I think it is my right to freedom of information and a stand against censorship....

[Mortblanc]

So you are equating the construction of a single shot .22 pistol fr use as a self defense tool with the construction of an atomic bomb?

No wonder you fellows can no longer carry a Swiss Army Knife when you walk the dog.

[bigpaul]

No wonder you fellows can no longer carry a Swiss Army Knife when you walk the dog.

only applies in the cities, out in the sticks everyone carries a knife as an everyday tool.

[Timelord]

"For me it is not the design of the weapon, the means of producing it or the materials that are important, it is access to the plans as freedom of information and resistance to censorship as well as access to the ability to defend oneself"

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"For me it is not the design of the weapon, the means of producing it or the materials that are important, it is access to the plans as freedom of information and resistance to censorship as well as access to the ability to defend oneself"

So it does matter then????

Thought provoking....

[Charlie - uk]

I heard, the brave designers of this 3D plastic gun, didn't dare fire their printed weapon, except from 10 meters away with the trigger attached to a piece of string. And even then they said total lifetime wouldn't be more than 5-6 shots total.

I also noticed that the polymers used were not compatible with any of the models available for 'home' use. This problem will probably be resolved in the near future, but you do wonder why non of the established gun makers have not gone the composite plastic route yet....