{"id":258,"date":"2013-05-07T21:48:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T21:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/Blog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2013-05-07T21:48:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T21:48:47","slug":"3d-printed-gun-fired-successfully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"3D Printed Gun Fired Successfully"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The group Defense Distributed in Austin, Texas has printed a 3D gun and successfully fired it.<\/p>\n<p>It took them a year to develop and they have said that they plan to release the blueprints online.<\/p>\n<p>Sure to be a massive warning bell for the manufacturing industry as 3d printing becomes more and more consumer friendly. Although a long way off it is a matter of time until the technology becomes mainstream and instead of a trip tot he shops we are buying plans for small items and printing them at home.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure Defense Distributed will have quite a few people looking at what they have done with interest, law enforcement agencies will be monitoring them and anti gun campaigners are criticising the project.<\/p>\n<p>Although I know something like this is inevitable it will be interesting to see how they can monitor and regulate the making of weapons using the printers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-22421185\" title=\"BBC News Article\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The group Defense Distributed in Austin, Texas has printed a 3D gun and successfully fired it. It took them a year to develop and they have said that they plan to release the blueprints online. Sure to be a massive warning bell for the manufacturing industry as 3d printing becomes more and more consumer friendly&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,41],"tags":[52,50,51,44],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-tech","tag-3d-printer","tag-bbc","tag-news-2","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}