Defense Distributed received a license to manufacture weapons

Defense Distributed develops and distributes drawings of firearm parts that can be printed on a 3D printer. Now she has an official license for the production of firearms, and she can distribute the drawings completely legally. Making weapons at home for their own needs under American law is also completely legal.

Although it is too early to talk about the manufacture of any serious weapons entirely of plastic, such parts as shops, handles and other parts that are not experiencing extreme loads, it is quite possible to print on a regular 3D printer. This is how the directory of Defense Distributed models looks now.

Listing the details of the weapon is a rather slippery and controversial topic, which is especially acute each time a maniac with a gun makes a slaughter in a school or movie theater. Thus, the library of 3D-models of the Thingverse recently recently prohibits the placement of drawings of the details of weapons. Defense Distributed is now leading a crowdfunding campaign to create an open and free Defcad search engine for 3D models, which will not be censored. Search engine sources will be published on GitHub under the AGPL license, and publicly available database dumps will be published daily.
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Defcad hopes that their search engine will make available not only weapons drawings, but also other things, the independent production of which at home can be of great benefit to people, but not profitable for corporations and governments — for example, cheap analogues of expensive branded medical devices, prostheses and by him.

The right to have a weapon is considered in the United States and many other countries to be one of the fundamental human rights and individual tragedies, in the opinion of arms supporters, cannot justify its abolition.

A comparison of two very interesting tables from Wikipedia - statistics on the number of trunks in the hands of the population and on the number of murders - suggests that these two indicators are rather weakly related. So, in the heavily armed but highly prosperous Sweden, Norway or Iceland, the homicide rate is very low. At the same time, the United States in terms of the number of murders is not much better than the third world countries, although almost every household has weapons. So, in itself, the right to arms is neither a panacea for crime, nor the cause of violence in society.