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Cody Wilson's October Surprise Revealed: Sub-$1000 "Ghost Gun Engine"
By Robert Farago on October 1, 2014
Defense Distributed MD Cody Wilson sent us an email this AM, with a link to the above video. Most of you know Mr. Wilson as the man who launched the 3D-printed Liberator single-shot plastic pistol onto the world. That he is. But Cody's also a bit of a polemicist; a man who spits out out obscure literary references like some NASCAR fans expectorate used chewing tobacco. Anyway, his latest screed [after the jump] is more of a political statement than a product description. So what we have here is a machine that turns 80 percent modern sporting rifle lowers into finished receivers – at the touch of a button. It's perfectly legal and less than a grand. The result is an unregistered gun that you can't sell, trade or give away. But it's "off-the-books." Expect pearl-clutching and political blowback STAT. As planned . . .
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By Robert Farago on October 1, 2014
Defense Distributed MD Cody Wilson sent us an email this AM, with a link to the above video. Most of you know Mr. Wilson as the man who launched the 3D-printed Liberator single-shot plastic pistol onto the world. That he is. But Cody's also a bit of a polemicist; a man who spits out out obscure literary references like some NASCAR fans expectorate used chewing tobacco. Anyway, his latest screed [after the jump] is more of a political statement than a product description. So what we have here is a machine that turns 80 percent modern sporting rifle lowers into finished receivers – at the touch of a button. It's perfectly legal and less than a grand. The result is an unregistered gun that you can't sell, trade or give away. But it's "off-the-books." Expect pearl-clutching and political blowback STAT. As planned . . .
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