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."

Comments

Re:This whole make your own gun is like the homebr

[Talderas]

Kids want to get drunk now, not in a month.

Re:Fabricating an assualt rifle in California...

[slapout]

Don't know. But I'm pretty sure it's "known to the state of California to cause cancer."

Re:Lower Receiver?

[PPH]

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;--