I just ran across an article by Forbes about this gun. There have been over 100,000 downloads of the file with the plans for the gun. Granted, most probably don't own a 3D printer, they've probably been downloaded due to the threat of possible future legislation banning this kind of thing. Given what I mentioned above about how inexpensive these printers are becoming...and we have something pretty amazing here.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygree...om-kim-dotcom/
Here's a quote from the article, that sums up why this is such a big deal, and is so important, regardless if any gun on the shelf of a gun store is actually better.
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But Defense Distributed’s real goal hasn’t been to create an undetectable gun so much as an uncensorable, digital one. As the group’s founder radical libertarian founder Cody Wilson sees it, firearms can be made into a printable file that blurs the line between gun control and information censorship, blending the First Amendent and the Second and demonstrating how technology can render the government irrelevant.
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Now that's intriguing.