{"id":34163,"date":"2013-05-17T15:18:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T14:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/colbert-deconstructs-3d-printed-guns\/34163\/"},"modified":"2013-05-17T15:18:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T14:18:09","slug":"colbert-deconstructs-3d-printed-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/colbert-deconstructs-3d-printed-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Colbert Deconstructs 3D Printed Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cFolks, this is a game changer. And not just because it looks like it was made by Hasbro.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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\u201cWill America be a place where anyone can get a gun regardless of mental health or criminal record or will face the nightmare of not that?\u201d Colbert began on his show last night. <\/span><\/p>\n

Our favorite fake conservative talk host took on the latest and perhaps easiest avenue to firearm acquisition: a 3D printer and the Internet. That\u2019s right. News reports recently unveiled that a fully operational gun had successfully been created with a 3D printer, \u201cmaking it the fastest way of getting a gun in America next to opening a checking account in Texas.\u201d <\/p>\n

Colbert introduced us to the 3D gun pioneer, 25-year-old University of Texas Law Student Cody Wilson, founder of Defense Distributed. In an interview, Wilson says he is making high-capacity magazines easily available online because of \u201cThe collectivization of manufacturing\u201d or something, and \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a real rallying cry,\u201d Colbert observed. \u201c\u2018What do we want? Guns. Why do we want them? I don\u2019t know.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cFolks, this is a game changer. And not just because it looks like it was made by Hasbro,\u201d Colbert continued, mocking the rather toyish look of the new weapons. <\/p>\n

Wilson\u2019s Defense Distributed calls the gun Wikiweapon, \u201cbecause like Wikipedia, it will also be used to settle bar bets.\u201d <\/p>\n

Concerned, the Feds ordered Wilson\u2019s company to remove the files that provide the blueprint for 3D guns. But as Colbert notes, that move will probably have limited effectiveness. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we all know that once something is deleted from the Internet, it is as gone as Anthony Wiener\u2019s crotch,\u201d Colbert quipped. <\/span><\/p>\n

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