Click, print, shoot: Downloadable guns possible [View all]

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Nothing like technology and implements of death to brighten your day....

Downloading a gun's design plans to your computer, building it on a three-dimensional printer and firing it minutes later. No background checks, no questions asked. Sound far-fetched? It's not. And that is disquieting for U.S. gun control advocates. At least one group, called Defense Distributed, is claiming to have created downloadable weapon parts that can be built using the increasingly popular new generation of printer that uses plastics and other materials to create 3-D objects with moving parts. University of Texas law student Cody Wilson, the 24-year-old "Wiki Weapons" project leader, says the group last month test fired a semiautomatic AR-15 rifle—one of the weapon types used in last week's Connecticut school massacre—which was built with some key parts created on a 3-D printer. The gun was fired six times before it broke.

http://phys.org/news/2012-12-click-downloadable-guns.html

If this is the future of American technological prowess, what an interesting future is ahead. What ever happened to just going to the moon? Now kids will be able to download the killing vehicle of their choice. It's ironically crazy to me that something as fascinating as 3D printing can become the very nightmare we want to dismiss from society.

Where are we headed people?