A student from Texas has a gun designed entirely with a 3d printer can be manufactured, on a pin. It is the first time that a weapon is almost entirely with a 3d printer is manufactured. The student wants the used cad-files release.
The 25-year-old student Cody Wilson produced earlier parts of weapons, such as a warehouse for an AK-47, but Wilson and his organization Defense Distributed have now for the first time, a fully functional weapon manufactured almost entirely with a 3d printer can be made. Only the pin is not coming out of the 3d printer. Defense Distributed used a Dimension SST printer from Stratasys to use the weapon in abs plastic to print. The weapon is compatible with standard bullets.
The prototype of Wilson contains another non-printed element: there is an iron rod in 170 grams to detection of the device in a metal detector. It is in the United States, namely, prohibited weapons manufacture, not by a metal detector unnoticed. Wilson, however, plan to used the cad files on the internet, and the weapon so it can’t be printed without the iron rod in place.
Wilson declared himself an opponent of arms export control, but also wants to demonstrate what the consequences will be if everyone is able to self-designed items to print. “You can be a deadly device printing,” says Wilson against Forbes. “That is pretty scary, and that is what we want to demonstrate,” said Wilson. Although Defense Distributed have licenses for firearms to produce, in the United States, a debate has been sparked over the question of how to deal with printed weapons. Some politicians are calling for a ban, but how that should be maintained is unclear.
