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2/27/2013
8/26/2012
'Wiki Weapon Project' Aims To Create A Gun Anyone Can 3D-Print At Home
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'Wiki Weapon Project' Aims To Create A Gun Anyone Can 3D-Print At Home
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An AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and a 3D-printed lower receiver for the weapon shown below it. Both images were posted Defense Distributed's website.
Cody Wilson has a simple dream: To design the world’s first firearm that can be downloaded from the Internet and built from scratch using only a 3D printer–and then to share it with the world.
Earlier this month, Wilson and a small group of friends who call themselves “Defense Distributed” launched an initiative they’ve dubbed the “ Wiki Weapon Project.” They’re seeking to raise $20,000 to design and release blueprints for a plastic gun anyone can create with an open-source 3D printer known as the RepRap that can be bought for less than $1,000. If all goes according to plan, the thousands of owners of those cheap 3D printers, which extrude thin threads of melted plastic into layers that add up to precisely-shaped three-dimensional objects, will be able to turn the project’s CAD designs into an operational gun capable of firing a standard .22 caliber bullet, all in the privacy of their own garage.
“We want to show this principle: That a handgun is printable,” says Wilson, a 24-year-old second-year law student at the University of Texas. “You don’t need to be able to put 200 rounds through it…It only has to fire once. But even if the design is a little unworkable, it doesn’t matter, as long as it has that guarantee of lethality.”
Wilson and his handful of collaborators at Defense Distributed plan to use the money they raise to buy or rent a $10,000 Stratasys 3D printer and also to hold a 3D-printable gun design contest with a $1,000 or $2,000 prize for the winning entry–Wilson says they’ve already received gun design ideas from fans in Arkansas and North Carolina. Once the group has successfully built a reliable 3D-printed gun with the Stratasys printer, it plans to adapt the design for the cheaper and more widely distributed RepRap model.
As of Tuesday, the project had raised $2,000 of its $20,000 goal through a page on the fundraising website Indiegogo, when the company suddenly removed their page Tuesday night and froze their donations for what it described as a “unusual account activity.” The project is still accepting donations through its own website via Paypal and via the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. Wilson says that before Indiegogo’s rejection, the Wiki Weapon Project was just a few hundred dollars short of the cost of renting the 3D printer for three months, and he plans to appeal the decision.
Here’s the fundraising video the group had posted to Indiegogo:
Controversial as their project sounds–particularly in the wake of the recent gun violence in Aurora, Colorado and Milwaukee, Wisconsin–Wilson insists the Wiki Weapon Project is legal; Users can 3D-print any gun they would be allowed to lawfully own anyway, as long as they don’t manufacture them for sale, Wilson says. But he doesn’t deny that the project’s goal is to subvert gun control regulations in America and around the world. “It’s one of the ideas of the American revolution that the citizenry should be the owners of the weapons,” says Wilson. “Every citizen has the right to bear arms. This is the way to really lower the barrier to access to arms. That’s what this represents.”
And does lowering that barrier really require giving everyone access to be alethal weapon? “If a gun’s any good, it’s lethal. It’s not really a gun if it can’t threaten to kill someone,” Wilson responds. “You can print a lethal device. It’s kind of scary, but that’s what we’re aiming to show.”
A poster Defense Distributed offered to anyone who donated $1,776 to their Wiki Weapon Project. The image is taken from an 1835 Texas Revolution flag that has become a favorite symbol of the National Rifle Association, with a RepRap 3D printer substituted for a cannon.
Defense Distributed’s rhetoric includes a“manifesto” section on its website, with quotes from Thomas Jefferson and George Washington on the right to bear arms as well as a 1644 John Milton speech on the right to unlicensed use of the printing press. “In a world where 3D printing becomes more ubiquitous and economical, defense systems and opposition to tyranny may be but a click away,” read Wiki Weapon’s pitch for donations on the now-defunct Indiegogo page. “Let’s pull the world toward this future together.”PAGE 2 OF 2
Though the Wiki Weapon may become the first gun to be created entirely with a 3D printer, Wilson and his gun-loving partners wouldn’t be the first to experiment with 3D-printed gun components. In September of last year, a user uploaded designs for a printable lower receiver and magazine for an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle to the 3D printing software platform Thingiverse. The lower receiver in particular stirred controversy, as the receiver is legally considered the main body of the firearm and its sale and distribution are regulated. With a 3D-printed receiver, a gun enthusiast could purchase and assemble the other components without any limitations from gun control laws.
Just a month ago, a 3D-printed lower receiver was put to the test by Michael Guslick, who wrote on an AR-15 enthusiast web forum that he was able to assemble a working model of the rifle with a receiver printed on a Stratasys model printer and to fire 200 rounds without any sign of wear on the printed piece.
Despite the unsettling notion of a technology that lets anyone download a lethal weapon as easily as an pirated episode of Game of Thrones, regulating 3D printing to prevent gun printing would be both counterproductive and ineffective, argues Michael Weinberg, an attorney with the non-profit Public Knowledge who focuses on the legal issues around 3D printing. “When you have a general purpose technology, it will be used for things you don’t want people to use it for,” he says. “That doesn’t mean it’s wrong or illegal. I won’t use my 3D printer to make a weapon, but I’m not going to crusade against people who would do that.”
Weinberg points out that even before consumer 3D-printing became fashionable, gun enthusiasts were already making their own metal firearm components with computer controlled milling machines and posting their designs to sites like CNCguns.com. “If you want to make an effective gun, making it out of metal is probably better than making it out of plastic anyway,” says Weinberg.
But Defense Distributed’s Wilson believes 3D printers like the RepRap could become a far cheaper and more ubiquitous source of homemade firearms than computer-controlled mills. RepRaps even have the unique quality of being able to produce most of the components of another RepRap, effectively reproducing. “The idea is that the printer will pollinate and be everywhere,” he says. ” “ Imagine an insurgent scenario. People could be replicating printers in their neighborhoods, out of site. Anywhere there’s a computer and an Internet connection, there would be the promise of a gun…That has to change how the state treats citizens.”
And what about the possibility, in that imagined future, of more innocent deaths than ever from guns spreading beyond all control? Or that people who can’t access guns, like felons and the mentally ill, will be especially eager to use the technology? “I don’t see empirical evidence that access to guns increases the rate of violent crime,” answers Wilson. “If someone wants to get their hands on a gun, they’ll get their hands on a gun.”
“This opens a lot of doors,” he admits. “Any advance in technology has posed these questions. And it’s not clear cut that this is just a good thing. But liberty and responsibility are scary.”
3/03/2012
1/29/2012
GTA loves their guns just as much as rural areas, data shows
OTTAWA — Think there’s a rural-urban divide on long-gun ownership?
Think again. Turns out Torontonians love their rifles and shotguns.
The Star has exclusively obtained a geographical breakdown of the federal firearms registry data that shows more than 287,000 “nonrestricted” weapons are registered in Canada’s biggest city.
They are rifles and shotguns, the firearms the federal Conservatives say are tools of trade for law-abiding hunters and farmers. A smattering, nearly 4,000, are labelled “combination” weapons, that have more than one barrel, generally “chambered for a different calibre cartridge,” the RCMP says.
These are not policy agency firearms or police service weapons. They are guns held by individuals that, since 2003, were required by law to be listed with the federal firearms registry, but will no longer have to be once Prime Minister Stephen Harper fulfils his promise to end the registration of long guns.
After Bill C-19 passes the Senate, as it is expected to do, all data on “nonrestricted” weapons will be destroyed — over the objections of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police and others who say it is data vital for public and police safety.
The federal government will still track “restricted” and “prohibited” firearms.
Most of the “nonrestricted” firearms registered within the GTA are in the possession of individuals — 263,000 guns — while a smaller number (nearly 24,000) are held by businesses (not including police agencies) or museums.
There are tens of thousands of urbanites — more than 85,000 — legally licensed to possess a gun in Toronto, a number that may include some police officers who possess personal firearms.
Here’s what we know about them:
Nearly a quarter of licensees do not report having guns in their possession.
But the same number — more than 21,000 — have registered more than five weapons. In fact, 848 licensees report more than 20 guns in their possession, while 823 keep more than 30 firearms in their collection.
Overall, Toronto’s gun licence-holders range in age. Most are between 30 and 70 years old.
A small number are under 30 (10,000). But some 300 individuals over 90 years old, and three over 100 years old, hold gun licences.
Rifles and shotguns are the firearms of choice.
Most of those who went through the training and screening to get a licence did so to possess rifles and shotguns.
More than 53,000 licences to possess “nonrestricted” firearms are issued in the Greater Toronto metropolitan area — a census area of more than 5 million people.
Beyond rifles and shotguns, nearly 32,000 licences to possess the more dangerous “restricted” and “prohibited” categories of weapons have been issued to Torontonians.
Indeed, a surprising number of restricted and prohibited guns are legally registered — nearly 90,000 in the GTA. Again, these are not policy agency weapons. Those are separately accounted for.
Data on restricted and prohibited weapons will be retained by the government.
Still, the Coalition for Gun Control, which has enlisted the support of former Ontario attorney-general Michael Bryant, says the government’s move to destroy the data on thousands of “nonrestricted” guns is “bizarre and reckless” since it is so valuable to police and prosecutors.
“It’s like throwing a bomb into a crime lab because they didn’t want any evidence left there,” said Bryant told the Star.
He said the numbers also show “this isn’t a rural-urban issue. This is quite simply safety, and suicide prevention.”
“These numbers support the idea that there are some people, sure, who are weekend hunters during the hunting season, but there are also some people who are clearly hoarding a significant collection of guns, and those guns are always at risk since about half the guns that show up at crime scenes are stolen from legal gun owners,” said Bryant.
He dismissed suggestions that Conservatives may have political support for Bill C-19 in GTA ridings given the level of long gun ownership.
“In the GTA I can’t believe gun rights is an issue that helps the Conservatives. My experience and my sense is that most people in Toronto support gun control because they know that it’s one of the reasons our city is so much safer than Chicago or Washington D.C., where they have a lot more guns and a lot more gun crime.”
The data for Toronto show more than 9,000 firearms — mostly “nonrestricted” rifles and shotguns — are in police custody. These are guns that are seized, surrendered, found or turned over for safekeeping, for example. Only 3,381 of these are matched with a registered firearm.
Perhaps because of such a proliferation of guns — legal and illegal — in Toronto, area police forces have become big fans of reporting to, and accessing the Canadian Firearms Registry Online.
In the last five years, Toronto police services reported more than 18,000 incidents involving recovered, lost, seized or stolen weapons — via CPIC (the Canadian Police Information Centre database) — to the RCMP-run firearms registry “to ensure that lost or stolen firearms cannot be reregistered, as well as provide a central database to support police services with firearm-related investigations,” according to the RCMP.
And police officers in the GTA are one of the heaviest users of the database, making nearly one-quarter of all daily queries by Canadian police agencies in 2011.
Toronto officers on average queried the registry more than 4,200 times a day. New quarterly numbers show overall Canadian police submit a daily average of 17,762 queries a day, up from an annual number posted this week of 14,000 queries for 2010.
Critics of the registry and Conservative government members insist that those queries are meaningless. They argue any cop who runs a casual license plate check through CPIC automatically triggers a query to the firearms registry and throws the stats out of whack.
The RCMP says not so.
It acknowledges two law enforcement agencies have “modified their CPIC interface to automatically check the online firearms registry,” but most queries are deliberate searches of the database — most commonly individual names and addresses — by on-scene law enforcement officers in order “to be forewarned of the risk of firearms being present in a vehicle, residence or at a crime scene prior to making an approach. They are also investigative in nature, providing police investigators real-time information.”
One Toronto area officer, who spoke only on background, countered the registry critics, saying “you can’t write off the numbers of queries to a mechanical thing.”
The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, in testimony before the Commons committee on C-19, opposed the dismantling of the long gun registry.
Gatineau Chief Mario Harel testified that while there are “auto-queries,” those are “an endorsement of the fact that law enforcement views this information as a valuable tool . . . a bit of information which, when combined with other information, assists in assessing a situation an officer may face.”
Harel warned the end of the long-gun registry will mean there will be “no record-keeping during transfers of long guns.” He said between 2006 and 2009, 1.85 million long guns changed hands. He added it would inhibit the enforcement of weapons prohibition orders; add significant costs to investigations, which will be downloaded to police services and lead to crucial delays in gaining investigative information.
What’s what:
“Restricted” guns (of which there are 62,818 registered in Toronto) include: handguns that are not prohibited; semi-automatic, centre-fire rifles and shotguns with a barrel shorter than 470 mm; rifles and shotguns that can be fired when their overall length has been reduced by folding, telescoping or other means to less than 660 mm; and firearms restricted by Criminal Code Regulations.
“Prohibited” guns (of which there are 26,315 registered in Toronto) include: handguns with a barrel length of 105 mm or less, and handguns that discharge .25- or .32-calibre ammunition, except for a few specific ones used in International Shooting Union competitions; rifles and shotguns that have been altered by sawing or other means so that their barrel length is less than 457 mm or their overall length is less than 660 mm; full automatics; converted automatics, namely full automatics that have been altered so that they fire only one projectile when the trigger is squeezed; and firearms prohibited by Criminal Code Regulations.
1/20/2012
RAVEN CONCEALMENT CARRY HOLSTER REVIEW - YouTube
RAVEN CONCEALMENT CARRY HOLSTER REVIEW - YouTube: ""
IMHO the Raven tac holster is probably the most high speed kydex design out there currently. I think it makes a great range holster depending on the loops. I'd like to carry it IWB but unfortunately, I got the wrong hooks, snaps for that setup so I am rocking the Uncle Mikes till next paycheck. They have a very satisfying snap/lock for the Glock series of pistols which makes retention and draw intuitive. I guess this operator looking dude does a decent job of demo'ing the holster, even if he is using some sort of funky looking H&K USP type pistol.
One interesting thing to point out about this demo youtube vid is that the holster allows for light/laser attachment, which is pretty useful/impressive considering not a lot of holster' designers out there are making their lines compatible with attachments.
Raven Holsters can be found on the web via their website:
http://www.ravenconcealment.com/
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IMHO the Raven tac holster is probably the most high speed kydex design out there currently. I think it makes a great range holster depending on the loops. I'd like to carry it IWB but unfortunately, I got the wrong hooks, snaps for that setup so I am rocking the Uncle Mikes till next paycheck. They have a very satisfying snap/lock for the Glock series of pistols which makes retention and draw intuitive. I guess this operator looking dude does a decent job of demo'ing the holster, even if he is using some sort of funky looking H&K USP type pistol.
One interesting thing to point out about this demo youtube vid is that the holster allows for light/laser attachment, which is pretty useful/impressive considering not a lot of holster' designers out there are making their lines compatible with attachments.
Raven Holsters can be found on the web via their website:
http://www.ravenconcealment.com/
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12/29/2011
Sheet metal PDW perfection?
Watch "Mini Uzi 9mm Machine Pistol" on YouTube
Fun little short. I really like the UZI, mini UZI seems on a whole other level of compactness, and they have a micro UZI even smaller. IWI, Id like to know their client list. The UZI is a great design because its a combination of good design points from other preexisting designs.
Ah well, a man can dream. Sheet metal perfection probably goes to the Stg44. I wonder if its possible to make an all-sheet metal/stamped gun? Even an all sheet metal barrel could be formed from compressing multiple layers of sheet metal and then electro-welding the barrel over a blank to seal the seams. Probably need a low pressure round like 9mm or. 45 acp. Though.
12/27/2011
Gun Pron
While I'm on vacation, I should really avail myself to post some gun pron from this computer.
First up we have a *very* short AUG or AUG clone. Is that a real ACOG sight? Like the Bungee sling.
Must be fun to be over in a warzone and get to play with captured weapons. PPSH is just as good a design today as it was in WWII, and just as mean! Note the EOTECH holo sight attached. How else could you improve on perfection? 7.62x25 TOK is a hell of a round if it's followed by 75 of it's little friends...
Finally we have an S&W M&P pistol. These are great guns, I used to own one but traded it in for a NIB Glock 22. I did like that gun (in .40) and there was nothing wrong with it. Kind of miss it. If I had the money I would totally buy another one after I get a few more things on my list. However, Smith and Wesson's finish isn't all that great, like SIGs, these guns can rust if you turn your back on them for a second.
First up we have a *very* short AUG or AUG clone. Is that a real ACOG sight? Like the Bungee sling.
Must be fun to be over in a warzone and get to play with captured weapons. PPSH is just as good a design today as it was in WWII, and just as mean! Note the EOTECH holo sight attached. How else could you improve on perfection? 7.62x25 TOK is a hell of a round if it's followed by 75 of it's little friends...
Finally we have an S&W M&P pistol. These are great guns, I used to own one but traded it in for a NIB Glock 22. I did like that gun (in .40) and there was nothing wrong with it. Kind of miss it. If I had the money I would totally buy another one after I get a few more things on my list. However, Smith and Wesson's finish isn't all that great, like SIGs, these guns can rust if you turn your back on them for a second.
12/14/2011
State police: Gun buyback's aim goes beyond disarming criminals | The News Journal | delawareonline.com POLICY FAIL
State police: Gun buyback's aim goes beyond disarming criminals | The News Journal | delawareonline.com: "The state will give individuals a $150 prepaid debit card for a handgun, $200 for an assault rifle and $100 for shotguns and hunting rifles. Unused ammunition also will be accepted in plastic bags, but the state is only paying for guns, Coupe said."
Talk about policy fail!
Talk about policy fail!
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Youtube gun reviews always work better when wearing a mask...
Watch "Ruger 10/22 bullpup full auto" on YouTube
Here is a very short clip of an interesting modded ruger 10-22. Bullpup configured stock and full auto with suppressor. What's not to love? But the gloves and mask? That's attention to detail!
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