The Reprringer, a tiny, 3D-printable revolver that fires .22 calibre ammunition. Image: FOSSCAD
A BURGEONING SUBCULTURE of 3-D printed gun enthusiasts dreams of the day when a lethal firearm can be downloaded or copied by anyone, anywhere, as easily as a pirated episode of Game of Thrones. But the 27-year-old Japanese man arrested last week for allegedly owning illegal 3-D printed firearms did more than simply download and print other enthusiasts’ designs. He appears to have created some of his own.
Among the half-dozen plastic guns seized from Yoshitomo Imura’s home in Kawasaki was a revolver designed to fire six .38-caliber bullets–five more than the Liberator printed pistol that inspired Imura’s experiments. He called it the ZigZag, after its ratcheted barrel modeled on the German Mauser Zig-Zag. In a video he posted online six months ago, Imura assembles the handgun from plastic 3-D printed pieces, a few metal pins, screws and rubber bands, then test fires it with blanks.
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I apologize yet this is where I have to draw the line. I'm not aware of the gun laws within this capacity.
I wouldn't carry a gun as I believe they are too great a burden.
Most assaults occur from people we know, that's the first clue.
Secondly, there has never been better weapons of defense outside a hot capacitor and a sharp Carpenter's pencil.
"If" you have to flee the scene, you were obviously in the wrong.
