WikiWeapon Campaign to 3D-Print Your Own Gun Suspended by Indiegogo
Not wanting everybody to make their own guns? That seems narrow-minded.
Jessica Roy
2012-08-23
http://betabeat.com/2012/08/indiegogo-suspends-campaign-to-build-blueprints-for-3d-printed-gun/Though Indiegogo has largely been the go-to campaign site for non-artistic endeavors and bullied bus monitors, it turns out that there actually are some projects that the site will not allow. Forbes reports that a group of 20-somethings called Defense Distributed collaborated on a campaign called the Wiki Weapon Project to develop open source blueprints for a gun that can be made with a 3D printer.
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Indiegogo, meanwhile, seems determined to stay out of the debate, simply listing “unusual account activity” as the excuse for freezing the page. Defense Distributed had raised $1,708 of its $20,000 goal, and switched to accepting Bitcoin donations following the campaign’s shuttering.
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