In the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting,
The AR-15 part had been uploaded by gunsmith Michael Guslick, who goes by HaveBlue on the site. The part has been available since before Thingiverse changed its terms of service to forbid weapons and weapon parts.
Thingiverse’s latest Terms of Service say, “You agree not to use the Site or Services to collect, upload, transmit, display, or distribute any User Content … (ii) that … promotes illegal activities or contributes to the creation of weapons.”
In a statement obtained by CNET, MakerBot’s attorney said that “Thingiverse has always been, and is currently, evolving … as is the company as it pursues innovation and growth. We have always had the discretion to take action for policy violations. Recent events served as the impetus here to take immediate action (and there were several) and reiterate or emphasize the site’s focus on creative empowerment for products that have a positive impact.”
Policing those terms of service is a challenging task, and a quick search reveals several borderline cases that remain online.
There is a custom grip for the Ruger LCP pistol uploaded by user Pawl. One user who has printed the part indicates that it has a tendency for the clip attaching it to the gun to break off, while another asks for a version then can be re-sized for a Glock.
User jballard‘s projects include blueprints for an M-16 Receiver and a Colt M1911A1 Pistol, along with a Picatinny Rail iPhone Mount. “With this Iphone mount you will no longer miss a text or a call while you are hunting, ‘plinking,’ or just having a good ol time!” reads the description, “I have shown it mounted to the top of an AR-15 Reciever, it can also be mounted on the botom of pistol rails and any other type of picatinny accesory rails you can find!”
Jballard seems aware of the line they are toeing, because they also offer a Weaponized Fork. “This is a fork. You can eat with it. You can stab things with it. You can launch it with a device made to launch such objects. This thing has changed the world, can you?”
Meanwhile, there are a lot of prop weapons like this revolver from user Renosis, and a galaxy of plans for Nerf weapons and attachments (including a Nerf claymore).
The link between DIYers and gun enthusiasm runs deep. As Christopher Mims reports, the AR-15 that Lanza used isn’t so much a gun as a highly customizable weapon platform and a consumer toy with a whole industry of aftermarket parts and DIY upgrades.
For a glimpse into that world, you can visit AR15.com, which features a thread with close to 4,000 posts of members swapping photos of their beloved weapon with the most recent additions having been made today.
A tour through that thread reveals a culture of guns fandom that is as wide as America. There are guns with Star Wars insignia, guns with jokes about the zombie apocalypse, pink guns, minimalist machined guns, and baroque monsters covered in bells and whistles and laser sights. Each one was lovingly built and detailed with the same care given to modding a hot rod, custom-building a PC, or creating a 3-D printed Yoda head.
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