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2013-10-26 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Manchester UK police a little too gung-ho looking for 3D printing of guns

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Posted by 3dc 2013-10-26 13:42|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 some comments from the makerbot community:

Oh wow.
This "trigger" is plainly an extruder idler tension arm. I totally agree with you about the spool holder thing too.

I've printed that extruder upgrade myself.

Well.. The damage is done. Makers are criminals.

The 3rd picture was of a MakerBot Replicator 2 (couldn't tell but looked like the single-extruder, not 2X) so it wouldn't be printing for long without the upgrade, and lots of 3rd party plastic spools won't fit on the MBI holder.

Detailed map showing where "gun" parts were found pic.twitter.com/dIkVJErB1F

I can see the rap where this is heading: "only authorized and licensed persons are able to legally make things..."

source data for that "trigger" http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:53125

They've updated their FB page with a cagey response of "We need to test these more to see if they are gun parts". Their main news page remains the same at the moment.

http://www.prsnlz.me/maker/3d-printed-gun-parts-and-printer-seized-in-manchester-uk/

Posted by 3dc 2013-10-26 14:03|| 2013-10-26 14:03|| Front Page Top

#2 "I can see the rap where this is heading: "only authorized and licensed persons are able to legally make things...""

But of course the elites will be able to resell whatever Chinese-sweatshop-made junk they want to.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-10-26 14:07|| 2013-10-26 14:07|| Front Page Top

#3 I want to print me a NUKE. For personal consumption only of course.

Posted by Shipman 2013-10-26 16:57|| 2013-10-26 16:57|| Front Page Top

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