We always seem to hate when 3D Printing gets associated with guns, however, it’s nice to see someone debunking the likelihood of a viable weapon from a common home printer:
They didn’t follow the directions. What did they expect with 25% infill and one shell when the pattern calls for 100% infill and several shells. 
That being said anyone could build something better with basic hand tools and junk from the hardware store. In the end printing a gun is just silly.
You can build a better guy with 2 pieces of pipe and a marble. you don’t need any tools
ViceTV has this nice video on youtube where a journalist visits the worlds largest weapons blackmarket and people are making AK47’s with stones for hammers and fotpedal powered lathes…
Guns are 15th century technology.
Carbines and automatic weapons are 19th century technology.
Buying a 3D printer to print guns is moronic. Go buy a lathe/mill combo and you can build every conciveable gun/rifle/carbine you could possibly want.
But that doesn’t make for sexy klickjacking journalism…
@chris_vighagen Exactly what I was thinking - without the specific references - zip guns have been around a long time. Why endanger one’s own life to use a self-printed plastic gun? Like Michael Audette said: " In the end printing a gun is just silly."
Really all it was is 1 mans search for 15 minutes of fame, and he did not care about the cost of that fame or the damage it would do to the maker community. Ultimately his blusterous "you cant stop me " claims were hushed when they told him he violated ITAR and he could go to prison for a very long time.
@Camerin_hahn exactly, a pro gun rights activiest co-opted the vibrant 3D community for 4th amendment activism and anti goverment nonsens. (I’m from Sweden, we generally like the idea of civilized safe society here)
@chris_vighagen I am fine with guns. i grew up around them. Guns are not inherently dangerous or evil. Knives are just as dangerous. The idea of a 3d printed gun is just unintelligent. there is nothing better about 3d printed guns. everything is worse. The cost, the quality the user safety, the are more easily detectable (assuming you dont want somone to find it), the performance, the number of uses. The skill required to make it.
@Camerin_hahn of course, I have nothing against guns. I have something against stupidity, and that is as you have pointed very much a problem inherent in this particulare designer.
Also Defense Distrubuted’s 3D gun is less about guns and gun saftey than it is about politics and piggybacking to kickstart a persons career. The whole point of th 3D printed gun was to get presscoverage so that teh owner could spread 4th amendment extreme libertarian activism and second to get more likeminded customers to his businesses.
@chris_vighagen I agree, I really think it was a PR stunt now that it is over he as disappeared…
@Camerin_hahn Oh no he’s still there it’s just tht he’s now launched two different businesses and are doing speaking engagements, it’s just that he’s (Cody Wilson of Defence Distributed and Liberty Labs) talking directly to his target audience who of course are not the 3D printing community.