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Boy, 16, accidentally shoots himself in the leg while assembling a gun he made using a $400 3D printer in his bedroom
2021-10-08
Posted by:Skidmark

#4  Where did he a 16 y/o get all the other parts...?
Posted by: NN2N1   2021-10-08 14:26  

#3  Printing you own prosthetic leg would be a cool project. Major Nerd Points!

Virginia and 19 other states filed a lawsuit against the federal government in an effort to prevent 3D gun plans from being distributed online

"3D gun plans" are just data files. Good luck stopping that!
Also worth noting is that you can make guns with regular tools. We were making guns back in colonial times, long before the invention of the 5-axis CNC milling machine.
Posted by: SteveS   2021-10-08 14:04  

#2  More likely he was loading the gun he had created.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2021-10-08 14:01  

#1  Artificial Intelligence, meet Natural Stupidity
Posted by: Crolusing Sliling7235   2021-10-08 11:20  

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