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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, Offtopic) by Hairyfeet on Friday February 13 2015, @01:56AM
Well I'd say the bigger issue is that the admins don't seem to be policing the site, that or they just do not care. I mean when a single user has multiple posts just start yo-yo-ing like that, +5 to 0 to +5, over and over like that? Well it don't take Kojack to realize that somebody is targeting that user and modbombing. you can tell its a modbombing because they aren't even bothering to glance at the content, just the UID, because even a post where I simply said "You can't tell the age of a PC by the XP sticker as XP was sold until 2009" and even THAT went +5 to 0 to +4 to 1, back and forth and back and forth as some user reading the page would go "WTF was this downmodded for?" and upmod only for the bomber to go back and drop it back down again.
Its sad as i had real high hopes on this site becoming like the old Slash, where all the articles were about tech with no political BS, none of the groupthink and cliques attacking those that didn't wave whatever flag they did, but it looks like all we are gonna end up with is new Slash with a red color scheme...just sad, which is why I stopped contributing articles and have been visiting this site less, after all even Slash shuts down modbombers.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday February 13 2015, @02:14PM
You've been around the block enough to know that's a human problem, not a Soylent problem. The editors are all volunteers. They have day jobs. So it bears taking that into consideration when evaluating what they have or have not done. I think meta-moderation would address some of what you've been experiencing, but there are probably other measures that could be taken if we as a community think about it hard enough. I don't know if you've tried talking to the guys on IRC, but they seem pretty open to me. Since mod-bombing is more of a meta issue IRC would probably have a higher chance of having a productive discussion.
FWIW, I feel your frustration and think it would be a pity if you dropped out. You have a strong & informed perspective. It's one I frequently disagree with, but it makes me think. That's a lot more valuable than an echo chamber.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Friday February 13 2015, @06:37PM
Meta-mod does NOT do anything more than INCREASE the amount of yo-yo as users go "WTF was that modded down for?" and mod it up only for the bomber/s who are cyberstalking then go right back and downmod again.
No the ONLY way to target a cyberstalker or modbomber is for the admins to look and see who is repeatedly targeting a single individual and BAN THEIR ASSES by IP if necessary! For anybody with access to the logs it would be soooooo trivial to spot it isn't funny, you see that a person is getting yo-yo-ed by having a script that flags posts that go up-down-up by more than a point or two (because if its based on content? Most people will generally agree with the modding so there will be little in the way of yo-yo one way or another) and when a post shows up on the radar? Look at that user....has this person shown up on the radar before now? How recent? and most importantly you LOOK AT THE USERS/IPs THAT ARE MODDING THE POSTS and if that person has the same name/IP show up more than twice or downmodding multiple posts by that user? Hello cyberstalker/modbomber!
Look I know these guys got day jobs, nobody is asking them to rewrite the fricking site, shit most of this can be done with a few simple scripts as long as you have access to the modding history. This is why I have to wonder if one of the admins either supports the modbomber or is a modbomber because this ain't rocket science, this is the kind of shit that is pretty much website 101 and 10 minutes with the logs and a couple scripts will spit out the UID/IP of the persons doing this...if an admin cares that is.
Lets get to brass tacks...I put up with that shit on Slash because I was able to speak my mind to a wide audience and for every time I had to deal with a cyberstalker or modbomber (which to be fair Slash was actually good about shutting down, as my lovely "Die you fat fucker DIE!!" poster found out when he ended up IP banned) there was a dozen times when somebody replied or even emailed and said "thank you for the info, you made my job a hell of a lot easier with those tips" or "Thanks, you saved me a couple hundred bucks on my new computer and it runs fantastic, thanks again!" so to me it was worth putting up with the bullshit because at least I did get to help some folks...there is a REASON why I don't post to Faux or HuffyPo despite them having an even larger audience and that is because the admins there really have not a single fuck to give about stalkers and modbombers as long as they follow the political bent of the site and the one they are attacking isn't subscribing to the groupthink...which sadly as time goes on is the feeling I get here more and more. I mean for fucks sake my posts yo-yo more than old Ethanol and he comes right out and proclaims "I'm just here to troll and piss people off"...DaFuq?
So I'm sorry but I've already stopped submitting articles and find myself coming here less and less, if they want to make this some little echo chamber where everybody agrees? they are welcome to have it, there just isn't enough users here for me to put up with that kinda bullshit for much longer, sorry.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.