{"id":20399,"date":"2013-05-24T08:17:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T13:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20399"},"modified":"2013-05-24T08:17:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T13:17:06","slug":"australian-police-in-a-lather-over-3d-printed-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/05\/24\/australian-police-in-a-lather-over-3d-printed-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian police in a lather over 3D printed guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>The Register<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2013\/05\/24\/liberator_3d_printed_gun_catastrophic_failure\/\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Sharwood<\/a> covers the anguished response of police in New South Wales over the availability of &#8220;The Liberator&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The New South Wales Police Force, guardians of Australia&#8217;s most-populous state, have gotten themselves into a panic over the Liberator, the 3D-printable pistol.<\/p>\n<p>The Force&#8217;s Commissioner Andrew Schipione today appeared at a press conference to denounce the Liberator and urge residents of the State not to download plans for the gun.<\/p>\n<p>Schipione offered this advice after the Force&#8217;s ballistics team acquired a 3D printer, downloaded plans for the Liberator and assembled a pair of the pistols.<\/p>\n<p>One, when fired into a resin block said to simulate human flesh, is said to have penetrated to a depth of 17 fatal-injury-inducing centimetres.<\/p>\n<p>The other experienced \u201ccatastrophic failure\u201d, as we predicted a couple of weeks ago. [&#8230;] That failure didn&#8217;t stop Schipione declaring the Liberator a threat to public safety.<\/p>\n<p>To understand why, you need to know that NSW has of late experienced gun violence at rather unusual levels by Australian standards (which means over a year all of Sydney had about half an episode&#8217;s worth of gun violence on <em>The Wire<\/em>). That spate of shootings has led to Operation UNIFICATION, an effort kicking off this weekend that encourages Australians to <font color=\"red\"><del datetime=\"2013-05-24T13:12:53+00:00\">rat out<\/del><\/font> strike a blow for public safety by informing Police about illegal guns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Register, Simon Sharwood covers the anguished response of police in New South Wales over the availability of &#8220;The Liberator&#8221;: The New South Wales Police Force, guardians of Australia&#8217;s most-populous state, have gotten themselves into a panic over the Liberator, the 3D-printable pistol. The Force&#8217;s Commissioner Andrew Schipione today appeared at a press conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[331,9,10,15],"tags":[679,49,98],"class_list":["post-20399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-law","category-liberty","category-technology","tag-3dprinting","tag-guns","tag-police"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5j1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20400,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20399\/revisions\/20400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}