Good to see some professors add some reality to the debate about 3D printed guns. This is from The Daily Pennsylvanian.
While it is now illegal to use 3-D printers to manufacture firearms
without proper licensing, some Penn professors question the significance
of that legislation.
(snip)
“Trying to outlaw 3-D-printed guns is basically unenforceable,” said
Wharton professor David Robertson, who teaches about 3-D printing in his
class “Innovation and Production Development.”
“I live in Philadelphia, I have a 3-D printer in my basement, I can
download the instructions for printing a gun and I can print it in my
basement. It’s extremely unlikely that the police would ever find out
about that,” he said. “It was like saying that VCRs could not be used to copy movies from television.”
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