-By Warner Todd Huston
The 3D-printable gun craze is just beginning as the blueprint plans for the new “Liberator” plastic gun were downloaded nearly 100,000 times in just a two-day period this month.
Cody Wilson, founder of the 3D-Printed firearm company Defense Distributed, announced the creation of the first fully printable gun on May 3 and in only a few days hundreds of thousands of downloads of the plans were made from the Defcad.org website.
Despite the large number of downloads, don’t expect the country to suddenly be awash with plastic guns. Few people that downloaded the plans will have a 3D printing machine at their disposal with which to actually produce a Liberator model of their very own.
But the relatively few number of guns that will be produced isn’t stopping politicians like New York’s Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer from raising fears over 3D-printed guns, though.
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3D-Printed Gun Plans Downloaded 100,000 Times in Two Days”