‘This is my ghost gun…there are many like it, but this one is mine’
I’ve written extensively about the controversy with Cody Wilson and his Ghost Gunner device– a desktop CNC milling machine that you insert an 80 percent lower into and about four hours later have a finished lower ready to assemble. Well Wired managed to get their hands on one (I’m still on the waiting list 🙁 ) and went about crafting one. Better yet, they compared the finished result to one they tried to make on a drill press and a second 3D printed lower made on a desktop replicator and took the lowers to a gunsmith for his inspection.
This is my ghost gun. To quote the rifleman’s creed, there are many like it, but this one is mine. It’s called a “ghost gun”—a term popularized by gun control advocates but increasingly adopted by gun lovers too—because it’s an untraceable semiautomatic rifle with no serial number, existing beyond law enforcement’s knowledge and control. And if I feel a strangely personal connection to this lethal, libertarian weapon, it’s because I made it myself, in a back room of WIRED’s downtown San Francisco office on a cloudy afternoon…
