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3D-Printed Gun Bought and Displayed By London Art Museum
Sparrowvsrevolution writes "The world's first 3D-printed gun known as the Liberator has been treated as a technological marvel and a terrorist threat. Now it's officially become a work of art. On Sunday, London's Victoria & Albert museum of art and design announced that it's buying two of the original Liberator printed guns from their creator, the libertarian hacker non-profit known as Defense Distributed, and will display them during its Design Festival. Cody Wilson, Defense Distributed's founder, calls the museum's acquisition of the gun a victory for his group: 'It will now be this curated, permanent cultural provocation.'"
Art is always in the eye of the beholder.
I'm still not sure what makes 3D printed guns any different or more special than a gun produced with CAD plans and a used CNC machine.
Good 3D printers are not cheaper or more accessible than used CNCs, and the turns produced are far more dangerous than those produced from small blocks of aluminum and steel.
Granted, producing the guns may be cheaper (AR parts kit, plus homemade receiver, plus upper would probably cost 700$), but the difference in quality and utility is quite vast.
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'It will now be this curated, permanent cultural provocation.'"
So he admits that he's a shit-disturbing troll. I liked it better when they stuck to the Internet and didn't fuck things up for us IRL. Things are a lot harder to ignore or fix there.
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3D printed ploughshares!
Tell me how a glorified zip gun is considered art?
it's media art. not art of engineering. not art of revolution. but art of playing the media frenzy.
you know what non-profit means in this context? that all the money goes for the guy..
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
While I do feel firearms can be works of art, this plastic piece of crap is not art. A Kentucky rifle is art(the smooth lines, the metal plates); an antique engraved firearm is art(some of those old engravings are amazing); hell, even an AK-47 is in my opinion art, in a mechanical/engineering sense(it's simplicity of use, the beatings they can take and still operate). But a plastic gun that falls apart after a few shots? They might as well include a Nambu type 94 in their exhibit. They can call it "How not to design firearms".
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
If you are referencing doom, d&d actually came first (1975).
refactor the law, its bloated, confusing and unmaintainable.
These are 3D printed guns. You cannot just display them
Of course you can. By your argument the Smithsonian shouldn't have the Wright Flyer on display and should be telling people to fuck off to the airport if they want to see planes.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Bought a 3d printed gun? The entire point was for it to be printable! If anything, don't display the gun, display a 3D printer in a case continually printing guns, with the finished guns falling into a hopper to be ground down to pellets to be extruded into filament to be fed back into the printer. Now that's art!
....the difference in quality and utility is quite vast.
When you're a scumbag out to hurt someone, you just need to stick the gun to their face and pull the trigger.
These aren't snipers or even some infantry guy who needs accuracy and reliability.
Stick the gun to their head and *BOOM* be done with it.
This gun has no purpose other than to prove a point and the only use for it is to scare people - "Oh my God! Someone can print a PLASTIC gun in their basement and bring through TSA and take over an airplane!"
Am I the only one who thinks that these idiots are creating 3D printed guns solely to provoke TPTB into regulating 3D printers? ---- I.e. future 3D printer models you purchase will send any 3D object you print to a remote server, where trained specialists check whether you are - possibly - printing "gun parts" without legal authorization. ------ I think that the crappy 3D guns these people are trying to create give all of 3D printing a bad name. And I'm pretty sure that the big corporations can't wait for 3D printers to be crippled with draconian regulations. Thus one can forget about a future where one doesn't buy a product the conventional way, but rather uses one's home 3D printer to print it out. I hope the 3D guns people stop before they ruin the 3D printed future for the rest of humanity. My 2 Cents...
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
I think you are missing the point. The point is not that high quality design of the gun – the point is the high quality output of a 3D printer. It is kind of like getting your dog to sing. You don’t listen to the dog for it’s amazing voice, you are amazed that it can do it at all.
That's probably illegal in the UK.
By your argument the Smithsonian shouldn't have the Wright Flyer on display and should be telling people to fuck off to the airport if they want to see planes.
Or, at least get some TSA goons at the exhibit to feel up grandma and a few toddlers so we know what we're standing for...
That's probably illegal in the UK.
I assume to posses the original legally they'll have to have it deactivated too. Although that depends on if it's actually classed as a firearm in the first place, while it obviously should be I don't know if the law actually sees a 3d printed bit of plastic as a firearm just because it could fire a bullet (after all lots of things could do).
No that is completely different, that is a historic piece.
The whole point of the 3D printed gun is that you can make one in your office.
This gun is not historic or special, the technique is.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
So they are actually just displaying a hunk of plastic in the general shape of a gun? Wow, I would totally take time to go see that.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
Why is the 3D gun such a big deal? Granted it is a milestone in 3D printing that a gun can be made. But really what else? Why is this anymore of a terrorist threat than a zip gun? Zip guns are often made in prisons by convicts and, in previous generations, by ghetto kids. All one needs is a strong tube, an improvised firing pin and an actuator (such as a rubber band) to drive the pin into the percussion cap.
No that is completely different, that is a historic piece.
So is this. It's not in the same league as the Wright Flyer - I'd far rather see that - but I'd still find it interesting to see this particular gun.
This gun is not historic or special, the technique is.
And this is the first working gun to be made with this technique.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
I feel that this collection of golden guns should be in an art collection https://medium.com/war-is-boring/51e8ba9ea975 as it also concentrated upon men bad men with a fascination with things that go "bang" but YMMV.
http://www.taigtools.com/cmill.html
Taig makes a decent little product that can do all but one of the operations on an ar-15 receiver.
If you want to vastly over complicate a homemade weapon, I'm sure you can find a design that can be milled.
Where do I find the exhibit of people who have an infantile obsession with what Americans do?
Oops, already viewing it apparently.
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Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
I agree. A zip gun clearly takes skill, talent, and effort to create.
That makes this mere pop art, unworthy of being honored with our greatest works.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
Then you only need the Uranium-235....
And the polonium-beryllium modulated neutron initiator. Oh and a tube and backplate for the 85 lb uranium "bullet" that's strong enough to withstand the "shot" towards the uranium ring. Titanium carbide isn't a material easily replaced by ABS plastic, after all. You also need the anvil to absorb the impact so the whole assembly doesn't go shooting out the front.
Really, when you look over the design, the only part that can safely be replaced with plastic is the outer, aerodynamic shell of the bomb.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
In the same way that a blob of paint is, a photo of a sunset, or a bottle filled with urine and a jesus doll.
Art is relative to the beholder.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
You hide weapons on a toddler while going through airport security for the same reason that criminals in Kosovo or wherever hid their shit in hospitals when the bombs started falling. As soon as the "bad guys" realize that the "good guys" have a line they won't cross, the smart ones will stand just over the line and heckle.
Sigh.
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If they don't kill themselves or their family members first. All we need is a bunch of amateurs walking around with guns looking for any excuse to start shooting. Protect me? You gotta be kidding!