广泛的媒体报道最近对德国哈勒的犹太教堂的袭击事件进行了广泛报道，报道说，负责的枪手正在挥舞着3D印刷枪。这是一场令人难以置信的憎恶袭击，夺走了两个人的生命并伤害了他人，这一说法并未被3D印刷行业所忽视。作为由于缺乏理解，这种性质的案例经常被引起轰动，并且不准确，我们抬起头，看着头条新闻。
我与研究人员进行了交谈International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation（ICSR）在伦敦国王学院。这里的团队寻求“实证下standing to the study of international security and terrorism issues,” and have seen the mission statement, documentation relating to weapon manufacture, and footage recorded by the assailant of the Halle attack.
Putting it simply: a 3D printed gun was not used in the murder of these people.
ICSR的官方评论说：“攻击者建造了几种武器 - 有些武器比其他涉及3D打印的武器更多。但是，他的武器都没有完全3D printed.”
设计中使用的3D打印组件对枪支的操作不是不为们的，也可以在线购买。
The attack happened Wednesday 9 October, the date marking the end of Yom Kippur. The gunman had several homemade weapons in his possession at the time of attack, though only two of them were actually used. The first of these was the so-called “Luty” submachine gun, named after the late Philip Luty who is responsible for creating and distributing the design files for the weapon online. The ICSR told me that the Luty is the weapon that the attacker used to murder his two victims. It was made mostly from steel and not using a 3D printer. 3D printed, non-metal elements incorporated into the gunman’s Luty design were the trigger clip and torch barrel attachment, though ICSR researchers add that “The gun would have been operational without those 3D printed elements.” In addition, both of the parts can be readily and cheaply bought online in their conventionally manufactured forms.
The second gun used by the assailant was a shotgun with a 3D printed shell holder attached. Again the 3D printed component was not essential for the gun’s operation. Metal versions of the part can be bought online, and there are video tutorials about how to make the parts on consumer-grade CNC mills.
袭击者由于墨盒在枪中塞入而移到了第二个武器上。在这一点上，枪手被引用为“失败者”，说：“我当然设法证明了即兴武器有多荒谬，”这一点似乎与他参与的极端主义团体所呼应。
“For what it’s worth, I think his attack – and his stated aim of proving the viability of homemade improvised weapons – will come to be seen as a “failure” within the far-right extremist milieu,” said our source at the ICSR, explaining: “When there’s an “innovation” in attack planning (e.g. the use of a vehicle to run people over, or the use of 3D printed elements), we see that terrorists often mimic those innovations that are “successful” (measured in media impact and/or number of casualties). So following on from the 2016 Nice attack (which involved the use of a truck to run people over), we saw an uptick in plots that used vehicles to run people over.”
“Given that this attack wasn’t “successful” (judging from the reaction of white nationalists online), it may not prove to be the breakthrough attack that announces 3D printed weapons as viable to an audience of future attackers.”
In order to prevent such attacks in the future, the ICSR maintains that “There obviously needs to be regulation and measures to restrict the fabrication of weapons in this way.” However, how exactly to go about regulating the digital nature of these elements remains unclear. The ICSR adds, “It’s difficult, as people have been making improvised weapons for centuries/millennia.”
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特色图片显示了3D打印的“解放者”手枪的照片。通过防御分发的原始照片
