“Okay. Now we have found a gun,” says PSR. “Just make sure that you don’t poinse it on anyone.”
Finished and assembled gun, complete with 3D-crushed silencer. The silencer is wrapped in black hockey tape, just as Luigi is allegedly found in Mangion’s backpack.Photograph: Andy Greenburg
Funny as This may be experienced, it felt familiar. This is because 10 years ago, I did all this earlier.
In 2015, in a cool backroom of Wired’s San Francisco office, I created an AR-15 “Ghost Gun”-which is a completely semi-liberated rifle. Like the Glok-style handgun, I would build in Louisiana after a decade, that the rifle was a “ghost gun” in the sense that it had no serial number and was fully built in private, without any background check, without showing anyone, and without making any government agency aware of its existence.
In American federal gun control laws, ghost guns take advantage of one kind of flaws: only a gun of guns, on which all its other components are attached-is known as the lower receiver for a AR-15 or the frame for a lock-style handgun is regulated-such that it is regulated. The gunMake that one piece yourself at home, and you can buy the rest online in a few clicks, put arms components such as barrels, slides, and a little regulator can trigger into your shopping carts without facing the bump.
To test how easy it was to build a ghost gun in 2015, I created a lower receiver in three different ways of AR -15: I put it out of plastic; The use of a computer-controlled milling machine to remove one from aluminum (or more accurately, to finish it, because I started with 80 percent finished low receiver, or “80 percent less”, was designed almost-but not quite not quite-reduce the legal definition of that part); And even the same aluminum with a manual drill press tried technology of 80 percent less drilling.
I was somewhat surprised at the time when a gunman showed all three parts that my 3D-affected lower receiver would not be safe to make a rifle. He told me that instead sticks with milled aluminum one – which works perfectly.
However, flash in December last December, and now it seemed that a homemade plastic frame was used in a careful murder. When police Then 26 -year -old Luigi Mangion arrested In Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, after five days of McDonald’s, when he allegedly shut down Brian Thompson, evidence of the gun found in his backpack showed a partially 3D-impregnated handgun with a printed cyliance wrapped in hockey tape. I spoke to Digital Gunsmith in the days after that revelation, and he identified the weapon of the alleged murder, especially a printable, a variety on a golca-style frame, known as FMDA 19.2-A brief name for Librartian Slogan was called “Free Main Dont”-A Gan-Printing Group called online which was made online. Is.
I had not covered the 3D-printed gun for years. But now when Bryan was allegedly used in Thompson’s murder, I wanted to know: How far was the technology in the last decade? And these chaotic, after 10 years of dispute around deadly weapons, were the US gun laws finally caught with ghost guns?
I decided to find out by creating a ghost gun of my own. And as soon as I started this discovery, it became clear immediately that the answer to the other questions was not a great. Creating a ghost gun with a 3D printer in the US today is not only easier and practical than ever in most parts of America, it is also completely legal.
