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Australian Police Move To Make 3D Printed Guns Illegal
lukehopewell1 writes "'Untraceable, undetectable, cheap and freely available.' That's how Australian police have described the 3D-printable gun known as The Liberator today as they announce that they will be seeking to make the download, construction and possession of these weapons illegal. In their tests, Police printed the 15 parts required to assemble The Liberator in 27 hours and assembled it within 60 seconds with a firing pin fashioned out of a steel nail. The two guns were test fired into a block of resin designed to simulate human muscle, and the first bullet penetrated the resin block up to 17 centimeters. NSW Police Ballistics division confirm that it would be a fatal wound if pointed at someone."
I remember the old days of people hosting bulletin boards on their Commodore 64's. If the sys op was kind ... or if you had something to share, you'd get to download the stash of dirty pictures in glorious 8 bit color. Then they passed laws against it and now you can't find porn on line anymore.
I hope you would have to actually shoot someone for it to be fatal.
A firearm is a firearm whether or not it is 3D printed. The existing laws should be more than sufficient. But then again, this is Australia, number 2 on the world's list of police states (with number one being there parent, the UK).
I don't understand why anyone would want to live there voluntarily. Oh, wait...
"Expelling a projectile with enough force to penetrate a human being to the depth of 17 centimeters"
I hate to point this out, but my *cock* does that....and talk about unforeseen consequences.....Hope it's not the next thing they want to make illegal.
That was 17, not 7, so you've nothing to worry about.
"Expelling a projectile with enough force to penetrate a human being to the depth of 17 centimeters"
I hate to point this out, but my *cock* does that....and talk about unforeseen consequences.....Hope it's not the next thing they want to make illegal.
Only if you equip it with a high-capacity magazine, or modify it to fire more than one shot per pull.
"The Greens lynched a hacker in Chicago. Last month, but I think the body's still hanging from the old Water Tower."
A ban on anything smaller than a B-cup, for fear of usage as 'child' actors in pornography.
None of us at the porno shops were fooled by their official excuse.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
“My greater concern is that someone would do this, make one, and then suffer the consequences and kill themselves [after a catastrophic failure]. "
Think of it as evolution in action.
"The civilised world", America seems to have opted out recently.
If you think someone isn't free to have a different definition of "freedom" you may be a tyrant.
I agree completely, It's bullets that kill people.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
In fact it is already illegal to build guns in Australia without a license (and our gun license system works very well)
It's working great. It's working so well, that you're actually grateful for it. Mission accomplished! The line for castration begins to your left.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"