Cody Wilson, inventor of the blueprint for the first fully 3D-printable gun, has signed a quarter-million dollar deal with Simon & Schuster to write a non-fiction book about his journey to create the first fully 3D-printable firearm. Wilson told Forbes.com that he’d use the opportunity to fully explain his ideological motivations for creating a deadly firearm anyone can download and print in the privacy of their garage. Wilson said the reaction from publishers to his book proposal were very mixed. “It was pretty hot and cold,” he says. “Some think I’m awful, that what I did was terrible, and others think this is an incredible story that needs to be told.” . . .
Your Lockdown of the Day™ comes from Norman, Oklahoma. At about 11:20 a.m. local time, a University of Oklahoma faculty member reported hearing shots fired in the vicinity of Gould Hall, the architectural classroom building. The university put out a text alert to students and faculty to avoid Gould and shelter in place. Within an hour, the general alert was lifted, though Gould remained shut down for at least another hour. No injuries or evidence of gunfire was found; officials said it may have been noises from nearby construction equipment. Even after the alert was lifted, classes were still being disrupted by students looking to their phones for more info. Some of those students questioned why the university text alert said there were shots fired when that was unconfirmed, and why Gould remained locked down for hours after the rest of the alert was lifted. In a post-alert press conference, OU President David Boren said, presumably in response to a question about the campus being a gun-free zone, “I can’t say how strongly I am opposed to putting guns in the hands of those without specialized training.”
Colorado ran nearly 400,000 criminal background checks for the purposes of buying a firearm in 2013, up 16% over 2012. Of that total, 1.9% were denied, which was down from 2.1% in 2012. The expanded background check law applying to private sales kicked in in July, and from July through the end of the year there were 6,198 checks run for private sales, of which 122 were denied. There were a total of 7,351 denials last year, but if history is any guide, many of those will not be upheld on appeal. In 2012, 3800 denials were appealed, and of those only 1,571 were eventually upheld.
It’s always refreshing to see news outlets publish gun-related stories, even negative ones, that are free of the usual hysterics that we’re used to seeing. WWNYTV.com accomplished exactly that with a story about a teenager who brought a Savage .22 rifle and about 500 rounds of ammunition to school in Philadelphia, New York last Wednesday. The story pointed out that “the rifle had only one small clip, so it apparently would not have been possible for the teen to quickly reload the weapon.” They went on to point out that “while 500 rounds is a sizeable amount of ammunition, it is also one of the standard sizes for purchasing ammunition – it’s essentially 10 boxes of 50 rounds each, and it would not be uncommon for a hunter or shooting enthusiast to buy in that quantity.” So kudos to WWNYTV.com for reporting the news the way it’s supposed to be done, responsibly and dispassionately.
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