
Defense Distributed received a license to produce weapons

Company Defense Distributed engaged in the development and distribution of drawings of parts of firearms, which can be printed the 3D-printer. She now has an official license for the manufacture of firearms, and she can distribute the drawings completely legally. The manufacture of weapons at home for their own needs under American law is also quite legal.
Although it’s too early to talk about making any serious weapons made entirely of plastic, parts such as magazines, handles and other parts that do not experience extreme loads can be printed on a regular 3D printer. This is how the catalog of Defense Distributed models looks now.
The listing of the details of a weapon is a rather slippery and controversial topic, which is especially acute every time a maniac with a machine gun arranges a massacre at a school or a movie theater. Thus, the library of Thingverse 3D models has recently forbidden to place drawings of weapon parts at all. Defense Distributed is currently conducting a crowdfunding campaign to create an open and free Defcad search engine for 3D models that will not be censored. The sources of the search engine will be published on Github under the AGPL license, and publicly available database dumps will be published daily.
Defcad expects their search engine to make available not only blueprints for weapons, but also for other things, the self-production of which at home can be of great benefit to people, but not beneficial to corporations and governments - for example, cheap analogues of expensive branded medical devices, prostheses and spare parts for him.
The right to have weapons is considered in the United States and many other countries as one of the fundamental human rights and individual tragedies, according to arms supporters, cannot justify its abolition.
Comparison of two very interesting tables from Wikipedia - statistics on the number of trunks in the hands of the population and the number of murders- suggests that these two indicators are loosely coupled. So, in armed to the teeth, but very prosperous Sweden, Norway or Iceland, the level of homicide is very low. At the same time, the United States in terms of the number of murders is not much better than the countries of the third world, although almost every house has weapons. So the right to a weapon in itself is neither a panacea for crime, nor a cause of violence in society.