The notion that Cody Wilson actually created something uniquely dangerous is frankly absurd. Any lone nut in a town with a hardware store can make a <i>much</i> more effective and reliable firearm. That's not just some nonsense about what a trained person with a machine shop can hypothetically do... you can look up videos on youtube of tons of people making reliable shotguns with a 2x4", a metal pipe, and a few plumbing fixtures. Fuck-all training or expertise required, a child could do it. A computer illiterate child could do it, which is more than can be said of printed guns.<p>What Cody Wilson actually did (and what he set out to do) is get people talking. He did that exceptionally well. For some reason a printed gun drives home the <i>"anybody can make a gun"</i> message <i>much</i> more effectively than a 20 minute trip to the hardware store. His major accomplishment is recognizing that <i>(well, getting the thing to work was impressive, but I think that is very secondary)</i>.