We 3D print Luigi manganese gun. It was completely legal

“Well, now we have a weapon,” says PSR. “Just make sure not to be directed to anyone.”

Ultimate and assembled rifle, complete with 3D sound silencers. The sound card is caught with a black hocal tape, just like a person who claims to be in the backpack of Luigi mangun.Photo: Andy Greenberg

Strange as Perhaps this experience, I felt knowledge. This is because, 10 years ago, I did everything before.

In 2015, in a calm background for WIRED’s San Francisco, I made an AR-15 “ghost gun”It works in full capacity a semi -automatic rifle. Just like the Glock -style pistol, I would have been built in Louisiana after a decade, and that rifle was a “ghost rifle”, meaning that it had no serial number and was completely built unilaterally, without any examination of the background, without showing anyone identified, and without realizing any government agency for its existence.

Ghost ghosts benefit from a type of vulnerability in US federal weapons anti-weapons laws: Only the central component of a firearm is attached to all other components-known as the lower recipient of AR-15 or a gun frame similar to Glock-style Rifle. Make this piece on your own at home, and you can buy the rest online in a few clicks, and put weapons ingredients such as barrels, slides and operation in your shopping cart without facing the slightest organizational speed.

To test the ease of building a ghost gin in 2015, I made the lower recipient of three different ways from the AR-15: I have normal it from plastic; I used a computer-controlled grinding machine to sculpt one aluminum (or more accurately, to finish its sculpture, because I started with an 80 percent fewer future, or “80 percent less”, almost designed-but not completely-the legal definition of this part); Even the old school technology of drilling the same aluminum by 80 percent with manual drilling pipe.

I was somewhat surprised at the time when I showed the three parts that warned me that my 3D printed reception device will not be safe to build a gun. Instead, tell me to stick to ground aluminum – which perfectly worked.

However, the flash last December, and now it seemed that a homemade plastic frame has been used in a carefully deliberate murder. When the police At the time, Luigi Mangion, 26, was arrested In Altona, Pennsylvania, five days after McDonald’s after he was claimed that he had shot Brian Thompson, pictures of the evidence of the rifle in his bag on his back on a three -dimensional pistol with a silent silencer printed on the hockey tape. I spoke to digital weapons in the days after this revelation, and Determine the alleged killing Specifically weapon as a difference on a GLOCK printable frame known as FMDA 19.2-is an abbreviation of the liberation logo “not asking free men”-issued via the Internet by the arms printing group called GATALOG.

I haven’t covered three -dimensional printed weapons for years. But now that it was claimed that it was used in the killing of Brian Thompson, I wanted to know: To what extent did technology reach over the past decade? After 10 years of controversy surrounding these deadly chaotic weapons, American arms laws had finally caught with ghost ghosts?

I decided to know this by making my ghost gun. Once this research started, it became clear immediately that the answer of these second questions was not. The creation of a ghost ghost with a 3D printer in America today is not easier and more practical than ever – in most of the United States, as it remains completely legal.