U.S. Gunmaker Gets License To Manufacture, Sell 3D-Printable Guns

[Purveyor]

WASHINGTON, March 19 (RIA Novosti) - A Texas firm aiming to manufacture guns using a 3-D printer – and publicly share the online files with anyone who wants to do the same – has been issued a license to build and sell 3-D weapons from the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF).

“The whole idea is a printable firearm that can be downloaded online for free,” said Cody Wilson, a law school student and founder of Defense Distributed, the newly-licensed Austin, Texas company that also promotes 3-D gun making, in an interview with RIA Novosti.

“One day it will be possible, when pretty much everybody has a 3-D printer, for anyone to download a free file and print out a gun, anywhere in the world. And your government would have nothing to say about it,” he said.

"Look who has a license to manufacture firearms," declared a posting on the Facebook page for Defense Distributed over the weekend, with an apparent photo of the new license.
Wilson said he’s less interested in making 3-D printed guns he can sell than he is in helping other people to make their own. It’s too hard for the average person to wade through the trial-and-error process to create a gun that will work, and the laws that govern that process are unclear, he said.

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[woodsprite]

1. These people are insane! n/t

[1-Old-Man]

2. Now this is a stretch of the use of the language if there ever was one

This fellow may have been issued a permit to manufacture guns, those can be had by any law-abiding citizen who is willing to go to all the barriers the Government puts up to getting such a license but it is utter nonsense to say he has been issued a permit to manufacture guns by use of a 3D printer. To put it quite simply no such license exists, no more than a license to manufacture guns using hammer, chisel, and file exists. They could not care less what tools are used to make a gun and they do not issue licenses on that basis.

[mwrguy]

3. The last thing we need is another gun maker