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Police in Australia have seized 3D-printed weapons after a raid in a suburb of Gold Coast City, Queensland. The haul included plastic knuckle dusters and what are suspected to be printed gun parts. If confirmed, the state's police force has said it would be the first time it had discovered 3D-printed firearm components in a home.
"We've obviously got to get it through our ballistic experts but we can identify most if not all of the major components of a weapon," detective inspector Scott Knowles of Queensland Police Service told ABC News following the arrest of a 28-year-old suspect in Mudgeeraba. He added that the owner of the printer thought to have been involved had given the machine to the suspect to be calibrated, and was not aware that it was going to be misused.
Last year, Australia's Senate held an inquiry into gun-related violence, during which there were calls for the country's laws to be updated to take account of new technologies. However, DI Knowles noted that Queensland's current laws were already adequate to prosecute a case if ballistics experts confirmed the 3D-printed parts involved were designed for use in firearms. "With weapons and parts manufactured this way still being classified as a firearm under current legislation, people can also see themselves before the courts for manufacturing and possessing these items" he said.
In 2013, the New South Wales police force released videos warning of the dangers of 3D-printed guns and depicting an exploding Liberator, while acknowledging that it is impossible to stop the proliferation of gun CAD files. Last year, Yoshitomo Imura was arrested in Japan and sentenced to two years of prison after posting a video showing himself firing a 3D-printed revolver of his own design.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 12 2015, @09:15PM
Why is this rated as troll? It is nowhere near a troll. It is an honest observation and philosophical question that is very important to morality and justice. Is this site going the way of slashdot already?
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Thursday February 12 2015, @10:52PM
Why is this rated as troll? It is nowhere near a troll. It is an honest observation and philosophical question that is very important to morality and justice. Is this site going the way of slashdot already?
A good question. I didn't interpret tftp's [soylentnews.org] response as particularly trollish either.
Which is why I gave a fairly reasoned reply to it.
I've locked horns with tftp in the past, and while he (she?) appears to have strong opinions, I didn't get the sense that they were trolling. I guess someone feels otherwise.
Presumably the moderation system will deal with this appropriately.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Saturday February 14 2015, @08:16AM
It seems the next change to the moderation system should be to remove the “Troll” moderation. “Disagree” will have to do for those who disagree.
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