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20×102mm Vulcan
It's Becoming Frightfully Easy to Make Untraceable Guns at Home
Have a look at the gun above. It’s an M1911 pistol, the standard issue sidearm for the United States Armed Forces for nearly a century. The semi-automatic weapon can hold up to 11 rounds and fire as fast as one can pull the trigger. And that specific gun above, it was made with a machine you can buy on the internet. It is virtually untraceable.
This and similar handguns can now be built with Defense Distributed’s Ghost Gunner computer-controlled milling machine. As first reported by Wired, the company just announced a software update for the three year-old, microwave-sized machine that lets anyone plug in a USB stick, install an unfinished aluminum frame bought without regulatory oversight from a vendor, and produce a handgun frame in a matter of hours. Once you attach components like a barrel and firing pin—also unregulated—that frame becomes a fully operational firearm that fits into the the waistband of Levi’s jeans. The gun is untraceable, since there’s no serial number and possibly no record of it ever being produced.
Scary, right? In the wake of Sunday night’s mass shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest in modern American history, plenty of people are wondering how the United States will react to yet another possibly avoidable gun-related tragedy.
https://gizmodo.com/its-becoming-frightfully-easy-to-make-untraceable-guns-1819076070
Have a look at the gun above. It’s an M1911 pistol, the standard issue sidearm for the United States Armed Forces for nearly a century. The semi-automatic weapon can hold up to 11 rounds and fire as fast as one can pull the trigger. And that specific gun above, it was made with a machine you can buy on the internet. It is virtually untraceable.
This and similar handguns can now be built with Defense Distributed’s Ghost Gunner computer-controlled milling machine. As first reported by Wired, the company just announced a software update for the three year-old, microwave-sized machine that lets anyone plug in a USB stick, install an unfinished aluminum frame bought without regulatory oversight from a vendor, and produce a handgun frame in a matter of hours. Once you attach components like a barrel and firing pin—also unregulated—that frame becomes a fully operational firearm that fits into the the waistband of Levi’s jeans. The gun is untraceable, since there’s no serial number and possibly no record of it ever being produced.
Scary, right? In the wake of Sunday night’s mass shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest in modern American history, plenty of people are wondering how the United States will react to yet another possibly avoidable gun-related tragedy.
https://gizmodo.com/its-becoming-frightfully-easy-to-make-untraceable-guns-1819076070
