Like VICE News? Subscribe to our news channel: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News Check out more episodes of Motherboard here: http://bit.ly/1nDXJJ5 Cody R Wilson has figured out how to print a semi-automatic rifle from the comfort of his own home. Now he's putting all the information online so that others will join him. -- This is a story about the rapid evolution of a technology that has forced the American legal system to play catch up. Cody Wilson, a 25 year old University of Texas Law student, is an advocate for the open source production of firearms using 3D printing technology. This makes him a highly controversial figure on both sides of the gun control issue. MOTHERBOARD sat down with Cody in Austin, Texas to talk about the constitution, the legal system, and to watch him make and test-fire a 3D-printed gun. Check out our podcast with Cody here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Podcast-Cody-Wilson Produced By Erin Lee Carr Edited by Chris O'Coin Read more on MOTHERBOARD here: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/click-print-gun-the-inside-story-of-the-3d-printed-gun-movement-video To find out more about what the ATF says about 3D-printed guns, read this: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-atf-is-unconvinced-3d-guns-compare-to-real-thing Music Credits: "Darkness IV," "Nights" -- Matt Scholey "Metronome" -- Machew "Stillpoint" -- Orphx (Richard Oddie and Christina Sealey) "Lost Again" -- Orphx "Apparition" -- Orphx "The Leaves Had a Voice" -- The Supercomputer Six Thousand "Spaces 3" -- Jon Cooper "Extreme Prejudice" -- Andromeda Dreaming "Dreaming in the Face of Disaster" -- Deadhorse "Hearts of Glass" -- Brightspark! Check out the Best of VICE here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Best-Of Subscribe to VICE here! http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/VICE-Videos Videos, daily editorial and more: http://vice.com Like VICE on Facebook: http://fb.com/vice Follow VICE on Twitter: http://twitter.com/vice Read our tumblr: http://vicemag.tumblr.com

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1. You can make a gun without a 3D-printer with readily available tools. People build guns in huts in 3rd world countries every day.
2. If guns kill people then spoons make people fat.
3. she had to say the same gun at sandy hook shut up ..the right to keep and bare arms ...
4. Stop demonizing this guy an his brilliant mind. I swear the stupidity of the liberal media is astounding.
5. Sandyhook never happened.
6. The genie is out of the bottle when it comes to 3D printers and scanners. Add access to the internet and possibilities are endless. The gang bangers, drug cartels, mass shooters and terrorists aren't the ones printing up guns, just normal people. Remember McVeigh and the Oklahoma IRS bombing? Haven't read anything about regulating the amount of chemicals you can buy at one time. No doubt a small majority of Americans would literally like no one to have any gun that fires more than one round with you then having to reload or better yet, ban all guns so only the police/military have them. Look how well that's turned out for those who lived in Germany/Russia rom the 30's onward, then to what's happening in Venezuela, Mexico, etc. today.
7. someone can tell me what's the materials that including in this video
8. Nice E12 BMW in the background at 18:00. I used to have a '78 530i in Topasbraun Metallic.... and the thermal reactors. Nice video BTW.
9. I live in Brazil A country that created a law to leave the honest citizen disarmed creating a big bureaucracy To get a weapon,We are the most restrictive country to have weapons in latin america behind Venezuela only,And yet we have 60,000 deaths a year.The bandits are still armed stealing more safely,gun control just make my country more violent Do not fall in this bullshit of gun control (sorry for my english)
10. I say, If you have a permit, and are smart you can print guns. You're qualified, and know what's right from wrong - I think. So, I'm with Cody.
11. Who is this liberal faggots Jew from the New York Times? What gives him the authority to talk on gun issues.
12. this is terrifying. absolutely terrifying. When people say "you can kill people with anything, like a spoon or a rope" those things have different intended uses. Guns are made to kill things and there is no reason that an average citizen needs to have one. It's disrespectful to be that apathetic about Sandy Hook and other similar shootings. These are events we should learn from. Guns are dangerous weapons that cause a lot of irreparable damage. Putting restrictions on guns doesn't blame the GUN, it makes the general public safer by keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous people.
13. All of these issues are understandable, from both sides of the gun argument, but the fact remains that there are better things to devote your life to, to have "visions" about, than firearms. Me? I don't have a horse in this race. My indifference is sealed. I just buy my popcorn, and take my front row seat at the Circus show.
14. We should legalise nuclear weapons for civil liberty.
15. He needs to sell those magazines
16. This guy seems kind of crazy
17. its easy to make firearms yourself, you can easily make a slamfire shotgun with only some pipes and nails and glue or welding.
18. Pft, what a lunatic. I'll be honest, gun ownership is fine, I don't have an issue with it, but holy crap I like it when gun owners are trained and screened for mental health if not for their own safety. Just throwing more guns out there on the internet won't give people the training and precautions to make them responsible gun owners, it would put their lives at risk, that is my big concern with this.
19. Cody Wilson is a child.