3D Printable Ammo Clip Skirts New Proposed Gun Laws

Sparrowvsrevolution writes "Over the past weekend, Defense Distributed successfully 3D-printed and tested a magazine for an AR semi-automatic rifle, loading and firing 86 rounds from the 30-round clip. That homemade chunk of curved plastic holds special significance: Between 1994 and 2004, so-called 'high capacity magazines' capable of holding more than 10 bullets were banned from sale. And a new gun control bill proposed by California Senator Dianne Feinstein in the wake of recent shootings would ban those larger ammo clips again. President Obama has also voiced support for the magazine restrictions. Defense Distributed says it hopes to preempt any high capacity magazine ban by showing how impossible it has become to prevent the creation of a simple spring-loaded box in the age of cheap 3D printing. It's posted the 3D-printable magazine blueprints on its website, Defcad.org, and gun enthusiasts have already downloaded files related to the ammo holders more than 2,200 times." Update: 01/15 23:15 GMT by T : Mea culpa; please blame my flu for mistakenly letting through that headline with "clip" where it should say "magazine." I know the difference — and I don't own any clips.

Re:Magazine, Not Clip

[Russ1642]

We do it intentionally because it makes you guys so mad. It's hilarious. "It's not a CLIP!!! AAAAAAA"

Re:Clip

[slashmydots]

Apparently calling it a magazine confuuuuuses some people. I guess they think people will assume you could hold bullets in a rolled up copy of Us Weekly.

Re:Technology Misuse

[flatt]

Isn't it time we banned these 3d assault printers?

Re:Clip

[gsgriffin]

Dang! So all those years back with my bicycle having 10 or 21 sprocket combinations and calling them gears was ignorance. Blast those bike companies and their false marketing for making me this way.

Re:Clip

[Anonymous Coward]

It's like XKCD's war on "literally"

http://xkcd.com/725/ [xkcd.com]

http://xkcd.com/1108/ [xkcd.com]

Yeah, that war is literally never going to be won.