Right now, we had a gun, Mr. PSR said. Just make sure you are not only on anyone.
The gun has been completed and assembled, completed with the 3D printed bar reduction. The rod reduction is wrapped in a black hockey band, like the one that is thought to be found in the Luigi Mangione's backpack.Photo: Andy Greenberg
Strange This experience may have been, it feels familiar. That's because, 10 years ago, I did everything before.
In 2015, in a quiet back room of the San Francisco office of Wired, I created a Ghost AR-15The semi -automatic rifle operates fully. Like the Glock-style pistol, I will build in Louisiana for a decade later, the rifle is a ghost gun in the sense that it does not have the number of Sees and is made completely private, without checking the background, without showing anyone and does not make any government agency know about its existence.
Ghost Guns takes advantage of a loophole in the US Federal gun control law: Only the central component of a gun that all other components is attached to the lower receiver for the AR-15 or the frame for a Glock-style pistol is prescribed as it is gun. Make a piece at home and you can buy the rest online for several clicks, put weapons components such as barrels, slide and activate your cart without having to face the minimum swelling.
In order to check the easy level of building a ghost gun again in 2015, I made a lower receiver of the AR-15 three different ways: I printed 3D it from plastic; Having used a control machine controlled by a computer to engrave an aluminum (or more precisely to complete the carving, because I started with a receiver lower than 80 %, or lower than 80 percent, designed almost, but not completely legal definition of that part); And even tried old school techniques rather than drilling the same aluminum type lower than 80 percent with manual drilling machines.
I was somewhat surprised at the time when a gunman I gave all three parts to warn me that the lower receiver was printed in my 3D, it would not be safe to make a rifle. Instead, he told me to stick with the blended aluminum, a person who worked perfectly.
However, Flash forward in December last year, and now it seemed to be a homemade plastic frame used in a carefully anticipated murder. When the police After that, Luigi Mangione, 26 years old In an Altoona, Pennsylvania, McDonald five days after he was accused of shooting down Brian Thompson, the image evidence of the gun was found in his backpack showed a 3D -printed pistol with a silencer printed in the h 2s. I talked to digital gunmen in the following days, and They have identified the murder accused Special weapons are a variant on the printed frame, in the Glock style called FMDA 19.2, an abbreviation of the free slogan, free men do not ask online because a gun -printed group called Gatalog.
I have not covered 3D guns for many years. But now people have been accused of being used in the murder of Brian Thompson, I want to know: How far has the technology traveled in the past decade? And after 10 years of controversy surrounding these anarchy weapons, this deadly, the US gun law has finally caught up with ghost guns?
I decided to find out by creating a ghost gun of myself. And as soon as I started this mission, it was clear that the answer to the second question of those questions was no echo. Creating a ghost gun with 3D printers in the US today is not only easier and more realistic than ever in most Americans, it is also completely legal.