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TV crew sneaks 3D printed gun within touching distance of PM (Netanyahu}
YNET ^
| July 4, 2013
Posted on 07/05/2013 2:36:31 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
How difficult is it to assassinate a prime minister within the highly-secured Knesset compound? Not too difficult, it appears, as new technology enables one to sneak inside with a 3D-printed hand-gun.
A Channel 10 camera crew tested the theory and managed to walk in to the Knesset twice, carrying a plastic pistol printed according to easily downloadable blueprints.
An investigative report by the Tzinor Laila program with Guy Lehrer aired on Wednesday showed how easily a gun, on all its parts, can be printed and assembled.
he gun was then tested in a professional shooting range under the supervision of police Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Dan Ronen, and successfully fired a live bullet at a cardboard target.
The crew was ready to test how prepared security arrangements are for this new kind of threat. The first time, the plastic gun was snuck by the show's reporters into the offices of the Knesset Interior Committee Chairwoman Miri Regev.
The second, reporter Uri Even managed to carry the gun into an event in the Knesset compound, attended by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The reporter passed all the security checks, including a metal detector, and got only a few feet away from the prime minister without being accosted. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at ynetnews.com ...
TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; secondamendment
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Has anyone actually shot a completely manufactured 3d printed gun? I don’t mean just using some 3d printed parts but the actual gun?
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posted on
07/05/2013 2:39:28 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: SkyDancer
There are videos of it being shot. No one contests that the 3D gun works, but it's questionable how many rounds can be fired through it before it experiences a serious failure.
While it seems that a plastic gun can make it through a metal detector, I notice that no one said anything about metallic ammo getting past the security.
To: Brad from Tennessee
no round in the chamber i take it...
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posted on
07/05/2013 2:49:28 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Malone LaVeigh
"but it's questionable how many rounds can be fired through it before it experiences a serious failure."If all goes well in an assassination plot, one shot should do it...
You know, instead of banning guns and 3D-printing of them, let's ban Presidents, Premiers and politicians. Then there'd be no assassinations.
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posted on
07/05/2013 2:52:47 PM PDT
by
DJ Frisat
((optional, printed after my name on post))
To: Malone LaVeigh
Well I guess all you need is one well placed shot to kill someone. Have they ever printed a 3D handgun?
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posted on
07/05/2013 2:54:53 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: null and void
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posted on
07/05/2013 2:56:40 PM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: SkyDancer
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posted on
07/05/2013 3:00:05 PM PDT
by
Brad from Tennessee
(A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
To: Chode
[no round in the chamber i take it..]
It’s extremely unlikely they’d be allowed to make this experiment that real.
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posted on
07/05/2013 3:02:47 PM PDT
by
Brad from Tennessee
(A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
The reporter passed all the security checks, including a metal detector, and got only a few feet away from the prime minister without being accosted. . .
My concern is about the security process, not the 3D gun. Remember when the first Glock was manufactured and the government went apoplectic about the thought that a plastic gun could make it onto an airliner?
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posted on
07/05/2013 3:03:13 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(I ain't no cracker, I'm a white a$$ soda biscuit...)
To: Brad from Tennessee
could used an empty round... my point was so long as there's nothing but plastic it is undetectable, put a round in it that can either be seen on a scanner or sniffed by it's powder and it's a whole other story
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posted on
07/05/2013 3:08:34 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Brad from Tennessee
A similar plastic gun, made with “classic” manufacturing technology, could have done the same thing.
OTOH, 3D printers could enable a person, subjected to a cavity search at a border or checkpoint, get quick and easy access to a gun on the other side.
To: Chode
Could conceivable use a paper cartridge and glass or ceramic bullet...
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posted on
07/05/2013 3:41:47 PM PDT
by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
To: Axenolith
conceivable but not usually available to the common criminal, and for a high tech assassination with only ONE shot, i'd want a known commodity...
that and you'd have to redesign it like a black powder weapon so the primer pocket and primer are part of the barrel
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posted on
07/05/2013 4:08:03 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Brad from Tennessee; AFPhys; AD from SpringBay; ADemocratNoMore; aimhigh; AnalogReigns; archy; ...
3-D Printer Ping!
Political power grows out of the nozzle of a 3-D Printer.
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posted on
07/05/2013 4:15:21 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
To: Chode
"...you'd have to redesign it like a black powder weapon so the primer pocket and primer are part of the barrel..." Hmmmm......unless you do away with a conventional primer all together...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezo_ignition
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posted on
07/05/2013 4:21:55 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
This will give Chuckie Schummer something to get in front of the cameras over.
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posted on
07/05/2013 4:25:17 PM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(President Obama; The Slumlord of the Rentseekers)
To: Joe 6-pack
very true, just push the button - no striker.... then it all comes down to reliability
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posted on
07/05/2013 4:34:45 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Chode
Indeed. The trigger mechanism becomes the primer...just a thought. Possibly something like a paper or caseless round that “plugs into” the crystal sparker. Could be made to work with a little tinkering.
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posted on
07/05/2013 4:38:01 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Joe 6-pack
very well thought out!!!
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posted on
07/05/2013 4:41:17 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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