On today’s episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss how WIRED was able to legally 3D-print the same gun allegedly used by Luigi Mangione, and where US law stands on the technology.
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Why 3D-Printing an Untraceable Ghost Gun Is Easier Than Ever (Podcast 18mins)
Submitted 10 months ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-3d-printed-untraceable-ghost-guns/
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MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 10 months ago
Do they have a transcript? I can’t stand listening to podcasts for long
Ulrich@feddit.org 10 months ago
Yes
Xanthrax@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Fosscad
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Republicans be Pro-2A until the rich are threatened.
“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary”
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s funny how everyone has a sacred quote in support of their own beliefs.
Reminds me of those jokingly exaggerated portrayals of Muslims arguing on something, where in one place in Quran the prophet said this, and in another place the prophet said that, and such a renowned theologist interpreted the confusion thus, and another one a different way.
Everything humans make turns into a religion. Asimov got it backwards, that the Foundation could use their advantage in knowledge as a religion for barbarians, but IRL the Foundation itself wouldn’t be able to control it all becoming religion.
I mean, OK, the Foundation evolved there, and their practices backfiring on them were one of the reasons, something had to be changed. I hope real life analogues have some plans for that.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I like to use quotes because they’re less likely to be misinterpreted than my own words saying the same thing.
“Property is theft!”
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
“Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.”
— Frederick Douglass
ILoveUnions@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Rich Republicans tbh. For the poor ones it’s when race or “the gays” gets involved,.
Ulrich@feddit.org 10 months ago
tl;dr printers got cheaper
joel_feila@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And they wirk with more than plastic. I have had that conversation several times. People honestly think all 3d printers can do is cheap plastic.
lud@lemm.ee 10 months ago
And better and people got better at making 3d printed guns.
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Printers improved too.
VagueAnodyneComments@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
I started listening but was immediately assaulted by a progressive insurance ad so I am gonna go elsewhere lmao
just_another_person@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Unless you keep the gun I guess.
venusaur@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How do you mean? You 3D print something with no serial and it’s untraceable. Even if they find it they can’t definitively say your firearm shot the bullets. Unless of course you’re on video doing it and admit to it.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Unless of course you’re on video doing it and admit to it.
Something tells me not doing that part is going to be harder for a significant portion of today’s population than getting a weapon.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Didn’t Luigi get caught with the weapon in his backpack? The title picture on this article is literally him. If it’s untraceable by printing, it seems you’d want to not have it on you if apprehended.
seathru@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
You 3D print something with no serial and it’s untraceable.
Except for all the metal parts they used a debit card/paypal to buy.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
In the age of AI deepfakes, I don’t even think that’s conclusive enough.
altphoto@lemmy.today 10 months ago
No plastic can withstand the pressure and shock from the propulsion of the shot, nor the heat or the friction generated. The 3D printed whatever is a fallacy. The only thing you can print is cute things you can attach to whatever.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Yeah, cute things like an unregistered glock 19 lower printed at a 45 degree angle out of pla+ you can attach to a trigger and rails via pins, rails that themselves connect to a glock 19 upper?
Hmmm…
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s a hell of a statement considering theres tons of videos and evidence that prove the opposite of what you just said.
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Uhhhh my friend you can print a 9mm CZ scorpion that shoots as well as the real thing. Same with an MP5. You can find videos of them being tested and shot on the internet. A lot has changed in the past few years with 3D printed guns.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Ngl I was hoping for The Glong lmao, close though!
altphoto@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Only the non critical to function parts can be plastic. IE, the barrel can’t be plastic. And you can use literally anything else other than 3D printed stuff.
So why is 3D printed even an issue. Anything… A CNC, scissors, metal, a grinder, wood, springs, screws…can be made part of or be used to make anything else. Making things is not magic and a 3D printer is not magic either.
The highest pressure rated plastic has a Ts or just maybe 28ksi. But with 15% elongation and a really weak modulus. So you can make toys basically.