{"id":9208,"date":"2013-12-02T21:40:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T05:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9208"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:23:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:23:02","slug":"law-banning-3d-printed-guns-up-for-crucial-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/law-banning-3d-printed-guns-up-for-crucial-vote","title":{"rendered":"Law Banning 3D-Printed Guns Up for Crucial Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai<\/p>\n<p>Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was speaking at a government function in July when a man sitting a few rows behind him pulled a Liberator, the infamous 3D-printed gun that the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/11\/14\/politics\/3d-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\">defined<\/a> as a \u201clethal weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The gun posed no real danger. The man bearing it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bqUlcruerf0#t=187\" target=\"_blank\">just a TV reporter<\/a> trying to prove how easy it is to sneak a 3D-printed plastic gun past security checks that include metal detectors.<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-also\">\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2013\/11\/11\/3d-printed-metal-gun\/\" data-crackerjax=\"#post-slider\">First 3D-Printed Metal Gun Fires 50 Rounds and Counting<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the United States, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2013\/05\/06\/is-downloading-3d-printed-gun-design-illegal\/\" data-crackerjax=\"#post-slider\">a law prohibits<\/a> amateur gunsmiths from manufacturing undetectable plastic guns to prevent such a scenario. However, the law is set to expire in just a week, on Dec. 9.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2013\/12\/02\/3d-printed-guns-law-renew\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was speaking at a government function in July when a man sitting a few rows behind him pulled a Liberator, the infamous 3D-printed gun that the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) recently defined as a \u201clethal weapon.\u201d The gun posed no real danger. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,14,38,1490,1493,13,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-defense","category-engineering","category-government","category-law-enforcement","category-open-access","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9208","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=9208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47390,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9208\/revisions\/47390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}