Digging Into the Legal Status of 3-D Printed Guns

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 21, 2013 @02:21AM from the point-of-clarification-your-honor dept.

jfruh writes "Defense Distributed, a U.S. nonprofit that aims to make plans for guns available owners of 3-D printers, recently received a federal firearms license from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. That license doesn't cover semi-automatic weapons and machine guns, though — and there are questions about whether the legislation that defines that license really apply to the act of giving someone 3-D printing patterns. Experts on all sides of the issue seemed to agree that no clarification of the law would happen until a high-profile crime involving a 3-D printed weapon was committed."

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What do US folk need guns for exactly? by Aguazul2 · 2013-03-21 03:02 · Score: -1, Flamebait

So, you've got all these guns. What do you do with them exactly? There is no sign of anyone using them to overthrow the government or actually change anything. About the only difference I can see compared to a society that lives without guns is that you have more high school massacres. Is it some kind of a macho power thing -- you're not a man without a gun? Or is it that your TV makes everyone so scared they think they need one?