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Making an AR-15 In the Wired San Francisco Office

Posted by samzenpus on from the point-click-and-shoot dept.

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."

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  1. Re:I feel safer already :) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't have an "irrational aversion to weapons", I do have a very rational aversion to irrational and aggressive people who need to fire off a few to ward off feelings of inferiority, like this sad sack.

  2. Re:Good news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Mentally unstable people have access to cars, various poisons, and, yes, firearms.

    So what?

    The bigger question is: Why are there so many mentally unstable people int he country. Could it be that drugging kids who show any sign of life causes this?