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3D Printing Risks: Not Just Plastic Guns, But Military Parts, Drugs And Chemical Weapons - 1 views

  • . But it also opens the door to making counterfeit parts for commercial or defense operations, designed for sabotage.
  • But the ability to print drugs on demand necessarily raises the prospect that people might print out recreational drugs -- or worse.
  • but there will be an increased capability for a small organization to create sophisticated biological or chemical weaponry,
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  • “It’s definitely a knee-jerk reaction in Washington to regulate 3-D printers,” Wohlers said. “It’s only going to cut our own throats.”
  • The case of meth may offer an instructive model. The trend of using decongestants to synthesize meth prompted Congress to pass a law in 2005 putting identification checks, purchase limits and other restrictions in place for Sudafed and similar drugs.
  • 3D Printing Risks: Not Just Plastic Guns, But Military Parts, Drugs And Chemical Weapons
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