The world's first gun made with 3D printer
technology has been successfully fired in the US.
The
controversial group which created the firearm, Defense Distributed, plans to
make the blueprints available online.
The
group has spent a year trying to create the firearm, which was successfully
tested on Saturday at a firing range south of Austin, Texas.
Given
the debate across America about what gun control laws to introduce and how
extensive they should be, and whether an agreement on background checks can be
reached, I think it’s pretty pathetic that this firm:
A) Have dedicated their time and effort to
bring out a product which could potentially destabilise that whole process and
bring everything back to square one.
B) Can’t
spell its defence not defense.
Creating
a gun that people can download of the internet and print-off at home, what
could go wrong?
Defense
Distributed is headed by Cody Wilson, a 25-year-old law student at the
University of Texas who, when being interviewed by the BBC, made this rather worrying
statement: “I'm seeing a world where technology says you can pretty much be
able to have whatever you want. It's not up to the political players anymore.
Need I
say more.
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