Indeed.
3D printers cost what, about $1500 and up?
So the Feds are freaking that someone might spend $1500 to acquire a crappy one-shot .22 pistol?
Meanwhile, its perfectly legal to make your own AR-15 lower, purchase the rest through the mail (well, in the free states). Or one could spend an afternoon making a double barrel 12ga zip gun with an electric drill and $30 of material from the hardware store. I think publishing the design for the latter would be a lot more scarey than a 3D pop gun.
Designs for homemade guns have been on the internet since practically the beginning
“So the Feds are freaking that someone might spend $1500 to acquire a crappy one-shot .22 pistol?”
It’s a precedence they are setting. This time it’s a crappy single shot .22. Technology will advance, but nobody is really challenging the Fed in seizing the CAD files.
The Fed doesn’t care about THIS gun. The Fed cares about future weapons it can’t tax and control. YOUR gubment hard at work, and not a peep about the constitutionality or the precedent set.
There's also a $999 printer by "UP" but I understand the gripe is u have to use their propriatary ABS. The question is whether this one can do the 'Liberator'. The specs say it's limited to print out sizes up to a five-inch cube max. That plus the strength of the finished prototype is only 30% that of the original ABS.