Posted on 04/01/2013 8:45:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s an oppressive spring afternoon in Austin, Texas. Low clouds threaten to unleash a gullywasher. After a couple of emails and phone calls I’m at an apartment complex off to the west of the University of Texas campus. A pair of young men pull up and pop the lid on the trunk of their car. One pulls a flat metal case from the trunk and I jokingly ask, “Is that a gun or a guitar?”
The lead man could blend in with the musicians and hipsters all over Austin who recently dominated the city during SXSW, but he isn’t one and what he has in the case is an instrument, but it’s not musical.
He lays the case on the parking lot pavement and opens it up. Inside are several of the objects for which he has become famous, or infamous, depending on your point of view. The dark parts are a conventional AR-15 rifle. Sen. Dianne Feinstein would ban them from personal ownership if she could, based not on their collective firepower, but on what they look like. The white parts are plastic. Wilson printed them and has test fired them at his range near Austin.
As he pulls the firearm from the case to show it to me, a woman walks by with her dog. I hope that we’re not alarming her. She didn’t seem to be surprised in the least. This is Texas, and guns are everywhere from the local Walmart to the state capitol building, every day.
The man with the strange rifle is Cody Wilson, 25, the co-director of Defense Distributed. That’s the group that in the past year has gone from not even existing to being on the verge of changing everything.
Or nothing.....
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Way cool. Following closely the democratization of the 2nd Amendment. Thanks for the post. BTTT.
http://defensedistributed.com/
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The “undetectable” bit was probably what snagged them. Unfortunate, but as they say - ignorance of the law is no excuse and you can still be nabbed by the feds for doing stuff they don’t like.
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And it looks like the site is back to normal too.
I do hope full up-to-date backups of all the technical info and programming are made often and kept in multiple secure locations.
I can easily see the gov’t grabbing all the equipment and files in a raid.
You know an AK is stamped out of tin, maybe that would be easier to print and hold up. After watching this plastic AR come apart about 50 times, I just don’t know if it’s worth it.
Is this something to bet your life on? I’m sure you could cut it out of metal with a water jet and be just as legal as this.
The last one I knew the tested lasted 600 plus rounds.
Just a little anti gun bias in the article I think.
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