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Electrochemical machining, a process that uses electricity to chemically machine metal. Commonly used in 3D printed firearms to create DIY barrels with rifling, greatly increasing accuracy. FCG. Fire control group, the trigger mechanism of a firearm. Commonly used to refer to the AR-15 fire control group.
Personally made firearms that fire one shot at a time are legal, as is 3D printing certain guns as a hobbyist. But further manufacturing faces a key legal test in October when the Supreme Court ...
Laws related to the manufacture, sale, and possession of firearms generally apply to 3D-printed firearms. Some state and local laws apply more specifically to 3D-printed guns: California requires (under a 2018 law) homemade guns to have a small piece of stainless steel embedded, with a serial number issued by the California Justice Department ...
The plans for the gun remain hosted across the Internet and are available at file sharing websites like The Pirate Bay [5] and GitHub. [ 6 ] On July 19, 2018, the United States Department of Justice reached a settlement with Defense Distributed , allowing the sale of plans for 3D-printed firearms online, beginning August 1, 2018.
The gun's name is an initialism for "Fuck Gun Control", where the "9" refers to its 9mm cartridge. [8] Released with accompanying documentation to aid its production and assembly, as well as the production of suitable ammunition, the FGC-9 is premised on the idea of undermining worldwide gun control.
Cody Rutledge Wilson (born January 31, 1988) is an American gun rights activist and crypto-anarchist. [1] [2] He started Defense Distributed, a non-profit organization which develops and publishes open source gun designs, so-called "wiki weapons" created by 3D printing and digital manufacture.
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[40] [41] [42] The open source firm Defense Distributed designed the gun and released the plans on the Internet on May 6, 2013. The plans were downloaded over 100,000 times in the two days before the United States Department of State demanded that Defense Distributed retract the plans, deeming them a violation of the Arms Export Control Act.