[marktwain]

Nice to see Cody Wilson going about this the smart way.

[Hardraade]

Request:

W88! W88! W88!

[DManA]

What’s it made out of? Plastic?

[Mad Dawgg]

I want a perfect 3D scanner that hooks up to a 3 axis CNC machine.

"Hey buddy can I borrow your AR 15 for a couple of days?" Thanks.

[stuartcr]

Is it a virtual weapon? Paper? I don’t understand how this will work.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Another idea “stolen” from me.

[tentmaker]

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/137269-the-3d-printed-gun-when-is-high-tech-too-hot-to-handle

[Carthego delenda est]

If this technology is perfected the possibilities of integrating a firearm into every day items is limitless. How about a 40 rd semi-auto disguised as a laptop. Or a 4 shot cell phone. Not to mention the problem of having ‘accessories’ match your outfit for the day are gone; just put a different color in the printer...

[driftdiver]

The low end 3d printers look like they cost about $4,000. Cool technology but the old fashioned metal tools are probably cheaper and easier.

[thackney]

HOME OF THE WIKI WEAPON. A NONPROFIT, COLLABORATIVE PROJECT TO CREATE FREELY AVAILABLE PLANS FOR 3D PRINTABLE GUNS.
http://defensedistributed.com/

[Berlin_Freeper]

Build yourself

Homemade induction furnace melting steel

[ModelBreaker]

Not clear why they need a firearms license for this. An “exploded” drawing of an AK-47 is not required to be licensed. Why is a blueprint for a different kind of gun? Or any instructions about how to build a gun?

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Will Megan Fox fit into the scanner?

[Candor7]

Just get me the 3d plans for the same surface to air missiles ( 10 to 20 thousand ) now in the hands of the mujahadeen of Libya , after Gadaffis fall which was created treasonously by POSHITUS betrayal.

I figure I can use one of those at some point to send POSHITUS my ballot, since the Obama campaign defrauded us of our vote and denied access of official Republican scrutineers at counting stations all over the country.

We can call it American Spring.

[Still Thinking]

Defense Distributed spokesman Cody Wilson tells the UK’s Guardian that his company has the “logistics, time, resources and money” to start freely distributing blueprints that will let any hobbyist with a 3-D home printer make their own gun, and now it’s just up to Uncle Sam to sign off on a federal firearms license.

Uh, I'm lost. Exactly who is it that the author thinks needs a FFL? You don't need one to disseminate gun blueprints and you don't need one to manufacture guns for your own use (which would seem to be the intent here). So who exactly is it that needs the FFL?

[Eye of Unk]

Won’t be too far off we will see real replicators such as from Star Trek. Imagine inserting a custom 1911 pistol in one and punching up a couple dozen before breakfast?

And I bet the TSA has had a LOT of interesting back room discussions about this. Pistols that won’t detect like a pistol. Kinda like a Glock 7?