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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts) Fri May 24, 2013, 09:18 AM May 2013

NSW Police issues warning on 3D printed guns [View all]

New South Wales Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione today issued a warning on the potential for 3D printed guns to be used in serious crimes in the state.

The NSW Police revealed that the force has created and tested two 3D-printed firearms. The police used the Liberator pistol blueprints produced by US-firm Defense Distributed. The original plans for the gun were downloaded more than 100,000 times before the company pulled them from its site under pressure from the US State Department.

Police believe that despite this, the files are still circulating.

The commissioner said that a Liberator pistol had experienced a catastrophic misfire during testing. The failure would have been capable of seriously injuring the person using the firearm, the police chief said.

http://www.techworld.com.au/article/462774/nsw_police_issues_warning_3d_printed_guns/

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NSW Police issues warning on 3D printed guns [View all] SecularMotion May 2013 OP

Zip guns are more dangerous and have been around forever NightWatcher May 2013 #1

So we should compound the problem by adding more misfiring weapons on the streets? Sheepshank May 2013 #2

No, we should not be promoting more homemade firearms MineralMan May 2013 #4

Zip guns have pretty much been illegal for a long, long time. MineralMan May 2013 #3

As a Publisher it's easy for me to see what's going on here. Nimajneb Nilknarf May 2013 #5