Mar 1, 2013 9:13 AM

3DPrinted gun moving from sinister joke to sinister business model

*Apparently technology improves when motivated people work to develop it. Who knew.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/download-this-gun-3d-printed-semi-automatic-fires-over-600-rounds/

*Assault weapons made of rubbish might have a certain poetic quality. I bet they'd be appreciated by the inventive veterans of the Syrian Civil War.

http://www.academia.edu/2643418/Distributed_Recycling_of_Waste_Polymer_into_RepRap_Feedstock

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