There are three interesting videos with the article. I doubt that Yoshitomo Imura's Zig-Zag revolver would fire real bullets. It appears that the "barrels" are blocked from doing so, just as ordinary blank guns are. I find the video of the Skorpian put together with printed lower receiver to be particularly interesting.
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.
“Freedom of armaments to all people!!” he writes in the video’s description. “A gun makes power equal!!”
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