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Making an AR-15 In the Wired San Francisco Office
An anonymous reader writes: Wired's writer Andy Greenberg writes about his experience fabricating an AR-15 lower receiver with the Ghost Gunner CNC mill. (That's the same device that was demoed in a Slashdot video earlier this year.) Greenberg points out that CNC millng isn't new, but reports nonetheless: "Aside from a single brief hardware hiccup, it worked remarkably well. In fact, the Ghost Gunner worked so well that it may signal a new era in the gun control debate, one where the barrier to legally building an untraceable, durable, and deadly semiautomatic rifle has reached an unprecedented low point in cost and skill."
Kids want to get drunk now, not in a month.
"Lack of speed can be overcome. In the worst case by patience." --Znork
Dammit... I thought my case was impeccable until that IANAL statement: "But some random coward said so, he even linked the source, twice!"
Don't know. But I'm pretty sure it's "known to the state of California to cause cancer."
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The barrel is 1) the hardest part of a gun to make
Not really.
And now the problem becomes tracking a 'gun' made up of several serialized, traceable parts. Barrels need to be replaced due to wear or when a weapon is re-chambered for different rounds. I'll guarantee that, should a system be developed to track multiple gun parts, it will be brought down by a relatively small group of gun owners switching parts around and submitting the required paperwork frequently.
Or I'll just design a rifle and name it an AR'; DROP TABLE Barrels;--
Have gnu, will travel.
Its not an assault rifle. Those have been banned nationwide since 1986
Pardner, I can go by my local "Grab a Gun" and buy any one of dozens of assault rifles.
What you or some candy ass Washington lawyer want to call 'em is your own durn bidness. Down here in Texas we know what these guns are, and they sure ain't the pea-shooter Glocks we give our kids to play with.
Yee Haw! [gunshots]