{"id":19422,"date":"2013-05-10T10:46:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T15:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=19422"},"modified":"2013-05-10T10:46:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T15:46:29","slug":"state-department-tries-to-muzzle-3d-printed-firearms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/state-department-tries-to-muzzle-3d-printed-firearms\/","title":{"rendered":"State Department Tries To Muzzle 3D Printed Firearms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember all the hubbub about 3D printed <a href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comculture\/politics\/sxsw-3d-gun-printing-and-practical-anarchy\/#.UYzqLKKG2xo\" target=\"_blank\">guns<\/a>? No? Not even when the U.S. government gave a firearms\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comhardware\/u-s-federal-government-gives-license-to-print-firearms\/#.UYzqKKKG2xo\" target=\"_blank\">licence<\/a> to\u00a0Defense\u00a0Distributed, the biggest name in\u00a0renderable\u00a0firearms? This past week was another huge one for DD, as it printed and tested the new Liberator gun, an all plastic gun that only needs the addition of a nail to serve as a firing pin.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/drPz6n6UXQY\" height=\"323\" width=\"574\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Defense\u00a0Distributed has now run afoul of not just the ATF, but of the State Department, who have demanded that DD <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/breaking-liberator-3d-printed-gun-blueprints-removed-us-state-department-1249629\" target=\"_blank\">remove<\/a> the CAD files needed to print the Liberator\u00a0<strong><\/strong>from the company&#8217;s site. Why is State wigging out? It may have something to do with the fact that the Liberator&#8217;s design was downloaded over a million times in just 48 hours. Those numbers come from the official site. Beyond that, the Liberator designs have already spread to filesharing sites such as ThePirateBay, where it is now the number one downloaded file.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19425\" style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comuncategorized\/attachment\/game-of-thrones\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19425\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19425\" class=\" wp-image-19425 \" alt=\"Game-Of-Thrones\" src=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Game-Of-Thrones.jpg\" width=\"575\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sorry, <em>Game of Thrones<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>Defense Distributed has complied &#8212; complete\u00a0with a snarky note reading, &#8220;DEFCAD files are being removed from public access at the request of the US Department of Defense Trade Controls. Until further notice, the United States government claims control of the information.\u201d However, this is absolutely a case of far too little, too late. As noted above, the files are in the wild. True, you can&#8217;t use a $1,300 3D printer from <a href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comhardware\/3d-printers-yeah-weve-got-that\" target=\"_blank\">Staples<\/a> and the sheer amount of ABS plastic needed isn&#8217;t exactly cheap, but when someone gets over the initial costs, there is now a cheap, almost\u00a0untraceable weapon in the wild.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, what we need now is nail control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember all the hubbub about 3D printed guns? No? Not even when the U.S. government gave a firearms\u00a0licence to\u00a0Defense\u00a0Distributed, the biggest name in\u00a0renderable\u00a0firearms? This past week was another huge one for DD, as it printed and tested the new Liberator gun, an all plastic gun that only needs the addition of a nail to serve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[905,31,908,1919,1918,730,906,38],"tags":[3922,4247,4242,3,3706,4719,4309,3196,2746,2046],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19424,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19422\/revisions\/19424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}