[LINK] 3D handgun police warning

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

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 ...
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Cheers,
Stephen


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