Civil Liberties

3D Printed Rifle Magazine Feeds Hundreds of Rounds

Oooh. Try to ban that!

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The contest between government officials' desire to control everything and independent-minded tinkerers' ability to put things entirely beyond control continues, with the tinkerers enjoying yet the latest victory. Sen. Dianne Feinstein may want to limit firearms magazines to ten rounds, and New York may have limited them to seven rounds, but Defense Distributed has developed a 30-round magazine design for AR-style rifles that can be created in the privacy of your own workshop on a 3D printer and relied upon to last for hundreds of shots. The new magazine is a completely reworked design, dispensing with flaws that limited the utility of earlier efforts