{"id":13627,"date":"2015-03-07T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13627"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:01:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:01:32","slug":"follow-wired-twitter-facebook-rss-fedex-and-ups-refuse-to-ship-a-digital-mill-that-can-make-untraceable-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/follow-wired-twitter-facebook-rss-fedex-and-ups-refuse-to-ship-a-digital-mill-that-can-make-untraceable-guns","title":{"rendered":"FedEx And UPS Refuse to Ship a Digital Mill That Can Make Untraceable Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/author\/andygreenberg\/\" rel=\"author\">Andy Greenberg<\/a> \u2014 Wired<br \/>\n<br \/> The new generation of \u201cmaker\u201d tools like 3-D printers and milling machines promises to let anyone make virtually anything\u2014from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/01\/3-d-printed-prosthetics-look-fit-sci-fi-warrior\/\">prosthetic limbs<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/05\/3d-printed-guns\/\">firearms<\/a>\u2014in the privacy and convenience of his or her own home. But first, those tools have to <em>get<\/em> to customers\u2019 homes. That\u2019s going to be difficult for at least one new machine with the potential to make homemade firearms, because FedEx is refusing to deliver it.<\/p>\n<p>Last week FedEx told firearm-access nonprofit Defense Distributed that the company refuses to ship the group\u2019s new tool, a computer controlled (CNC) mill known as the Ghost Gunner. Defense Distributed has marketed its one-foot-cubed $1,500 machine, which allows anyone to automatically carve aluminum objects from digital designs, as an affordable, private way to make an AR-15 rifle body without a serial number. Add in off-the-shelf parts that can be ordered online, and the Ghost Gunner would allow anyone to create one of the DIY, untraceable, semi-automatic firearms sometimes known as \u201cghost guns.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/02\/fedex-mill-untraceable-firearms\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andy Greenberg \u2014 Wired The new generation of \u201cmaker\u201d tools like 3-D printers and milling machines promises to let anyone make virtually anything\u2014from prosthetic limbs to firearms\u2014in the privacy and convenience of his or her own home. But first, those tools have to get to customers\u2019 homes. That\u2019s going to be difficult for at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64811,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13627\/revisions\/64811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}