St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner has been avidly following the "Wiki Weapon" project, by Defense Distributed, to design a "printed" gun, that could be entirely made on a consumer grade 3-D printer. Even this correspondent, though, did not really believe that that goal was realistic in any near term time frame. Printable "high capacity" magazines and printable lower receivers for AR-15 "assault weapons," still requiring commercially manufactured metal parts to function as a complete firearm, seemed ambitious enough. The forcible citizen disarmament lobby certainly seems to have thought so.
As it turns out, though, I should have had more faith in University of Texas law student and Defense Distributed mastermind Cody Wilson, who on May 3, announced the successful production and firing of the "Liberator" pistol (see sidebar video), named after the "Liberators" made in the U.S., to be dropped behind enemy lines for resistance fighters' use in World War II. The new Liberator does have two pieces of metal: a small nail to act as a firing pin, and a 6 oz. block of steel in the grip of the gun, that serves no structural or operational purpose, but keeps the gun in compliance with the "Undetectable Firearms Act's" requirement that guns contain a certain minimum quantity of metal.
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