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Titolo: Più morte per tutti

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22421185
 
 
Working gun made with 3D printer
 
By Rebecca Morelle
Science reporter, BBC World Service, Texas
 
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.
 
Anti-gun campaigners have criticised the project.
 
Europe's law enforcement agency said it was monitoring developments.
 
Victoria Baines, from Europol's cybercrime centre, said that at present 
criminals were more likely to pursue traditional routes to obtain firearms.
 
She added, however: "But as time goes on and as this technology becomes 
more user friendly and more cost effective, it is possible that some of 
these risks will emerge."
 
Defense Distributed is headed by Cody Wilson, a 25-year-old law student 
at the University of Texas.
 
Mr Wilson said: "I think a lot of people weren't expecting that this 
could be done."
 
The gun was assembled from separate printed components made from ABS 
plastic - only the firing pin was made from metal
3D printing has been hailed as the future of manufacturing.
 
The technology works by building up layer upon layer of material - 
typically plastic - to build complex solid objects.
 
The idea is that as the printers become cheaper, instead of buying goods 
from shops, consumers will instead be able to download designs and print 
out the items at home.
 
But as with all new technologies, there are risks as well as benefits.
 
Personal liberties
 
The gun was made on a 3D printer that cost $8,000 (£5,140) from the 
online auction site eBay.
 
It was assembled from separate printed components made from ABS plastic 
- only the firing pin was made from metal.
 
Mr Wilson, who describes himself as a crypto-anarchist, said his plans 
to make the design available were "about liberty".
 
He told the BBC: "There is a demand of guns - there just is. There are 
states all over the world that say you can't own firearms - and that's 
not true anymore.
 
"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 any more."
 
Asked if he felt any sense of responsibility about whose hands the gun 
might fall into, he told the BBC: "I recognise the tool might be used to 
harm other people - that's what the tool is - it's a gun.
 
"But I don't think that's a reason to not do it - or a reason not to put 
it out there."
 
Gun control
 
To make the gun, Mr Wilson received a manufacturing and seller's licence 
from the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
 
Donna Sellers, from the ATF, told BBC News that the 3D-printed gun, as 
long as it was not a National Firearms Act weapon (an automatic gun, for 
example), was legal in the US.
 
She said: "[In the US] a person can manufacture a firearm for their own 
use. However, if they engage in the business of manufacture to sell a 
gun, they need a licence."
 
Amid America's ongoing gun debate in the wake of the shootings at Sandy 
Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, US congressman Steve 
Israel recently called for a ban on 3D guns under the Undetectable 
Firearms Act.
 
Groups looking to tighten US gun laws have also expressed concern.
 
Leah Gunn Barrett, from New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, has said: 
"These guns could fall into the hands of people who should not have guns 
- criminals, people who are seriously mentally ill, people who are 
convicted of domestic violence, even children."
 
3D printing technology has already been used by some criminal 
organisations to create card readers - "skimmers" - that are inserted 
into bank machines.
 
Many law enforcement agencies around the world now have people dedicated 
to monitoring cybercrime and emerging technologies such as 3D printers.
 
Ms Baines from Europol said: "What we know is that technology proceeds 
much more quickly than we expect it to. So by getting one step ahead of 
the technological developments, we hope and believe we will be able to 
get one step ahead of the criminals as well."
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Namib
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αἱ ψυχαὶ ὀσμῶνται καθ᾽ Ἅιδην (Eraclito)


 
Finche il feedstock rimane abs o comunque normale plastica dubito che si 
possa tirarci fuori qualcosa di più di un gadget da agente segreto, 
casomai buono per passare un metal detector e pure letale con un po' di 
fortuna, ma con seri rischi di esploderti in mano in tutti gli altri casi.
 
 
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