At The Register there's a NSW police video, apparently made as a public warning, and claiming the plans for the "Liberator" 3D handgun have been downloaded more than 100,000 times. They say they printed two of the guns, at a cost of $35 and on a base-level $1,700 3D printer. The video shows one of the guns being 3D printed, then disintegrating when fired ..
'Catastrophic failure' of 3D-printed gun in Oz Police test' By Simon Sharwood, APAC Editor, 24th May 2013 05:32 GMT <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/24/liberator_3d_printed_gun_catastrop hic_failure/> The New South Wales Police Force, guardians of Australia's most-populous state, have gotten themselves into a panic over the Liberator, the 3D- printable pistol. The Force's Commissioner Andrew Schipione today appeared at a press conference to denounce the Liberator and urge residents of the State not to download plans for the gun. Schipione offered this advice after the Force's ballistics team acquired a 3D printer, downloaded plans for the Liberator and assembled a pair of the pistols. One, when fired into a resin block said to simulate human flesh, is said to have penetrated to a depth of 17 fatal-injury-inducing centimetres. The other experienced “catastrophic failure” ... Here's the Force's video, complete with shots of the Liberator firing, and falling apart ... -- Cheers, Stephen Message sent using MelbPC WebMail Server
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