A libertarian group says it has manufactured the first working plastic gun made entirely with a 3-D printer, and the weapon would elude metal detection - New York Post, May 6, 2013.
Defense Distributed, a Texas based group, said it plans to soon publish the digital blueprint for anyone to download. 3-D printers can create solid objects by following digital blueprints. The group reportedly test fired a model last week. It fired six bullets before becoming unusable. Probably not something you would want to take to the range for a day of targets.
Discussion is high on exactly what this means. Will everyone have a gun manufacturing plant in their garage? I won’t. I can’t get the car in there. Are such weapons truly undetectable?" Not if they have bullets. Bullets are made out of metal. A plastic bullet would blow up the gun and cause the shooter never to be able to count to two again.
What I want is a 3-D printer that can reproduce a person from DNA. I would like to see the expression on the faces of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin and all the other founders of this great country when they saw what it has become. Tom would probably nudge George and say, "What the "*@!**%#" happened?"
It could happen.
PMO
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