Defense Distributed granted manufacturing license.

A picture of the document taken from the Defense Distributed blog.

Defense Distributed, the organization which you probably know pretty well by now, has just been granted a license to manufacture firearms by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. I assume this means that they can now sell 3D printed firearms, since it is legal to "create" them without a license, but not legal to sell them. The license is a Type 7, which allows manufacturing of non-automatic firearms.

Apparently some of the politicians are catching wind of all this 3D printing news. Representative Steve Israel (D-Huntington, NY) has already introduced a ban on the 3D printing of gun magazines. The bill is in the drafting phase, and I don't expect it to go far, since 3D printing is not very well-known.