WA Police Seize A 3D Printed Gun.

Not sure why new legislation is required to target 3D printed gun...if its a gun & its not registered its illegal.
I guess there is some loophole that a person who 3D prints a gun that would get the person off when caught & taken to court (Hint, no)

Tis odd.
So to is the actual firearm the WAPOL Media Mega Network displayed.

1. There's no charging handle
   
   
2. Odd ejection port, or doesn't look like it can open.
   
   
3. There's no barrel
   
   
4. No magazine well 
   
   
5. There's no magazine
   
   
6. Not much room for an actual chamber.
   
   
7. No mention of a bolt/bolt assembly

It is at best not a firearm yet, but a work in progress. There are firearms very similar to that, but they're not AR15s as some have said. They fire 556/223 and that one shown would probably only fire .22 or 9mm given the tiny amount of room between the spot where the ejection port should be & where the (blue) forearm connects. 

There are workable forearms very similar to this overseas, never held one or fired one but they're not something I would touch with a barge pole. Plastic or polymer Upper Receiver is a recipe for disaster & I don't care what sort of break throughs they have in polymer technology. If it had been 556/223 you'd have to reload your own rounds and reduce the powder to below subsonic. it would be at best a plastic hand grenade otherwise.

If it is like the over seas ones then whatever chamber it has it could probably only fit a 9mm.
In WA that's thankfully only used in semi automatic handguns...like WAPol sidearms & those used by the public in competitions.
Handguns are extemely, that is highly regulated. It is the hardest ammunition to get legally or illegally.
It would also have to use a propriety & foreign handgun magazine.
Also incredibly hard to find even in gun shops. It's be a real Border Force thing trying to stop smugglers.

I can see why WAPol Media decided to not fire the gun to demonstrate how dangerous it is.
Firstly you'd have to fire it in a static rig so no person was close because it would likely explode.
Some saying these foreign 3D printed guns don't explode say they're good for 1500 rounds. 
Then what? Failue, finger loss, meat window in the face?

So they seem to have caught a complete idiot who's made firarms parts that may not work...hopefully.
Under the new laws, even printing the hand grip may get you prosecuted. 
Un-necessary is stopping a lawful firearm owner buying a locally made 3D printed hand grip for their lawful gun. It could be immensely cheaper & not dangerous to operating a firearm.

It still remains the case that there is no possible way to eliminate illegal drug use from any society.
It still remains the case that there is no possible way to eliminate illegal gun possession or use in any society.
It still remains the case that there is no possible way to eliminate violence or homicide from any society.
It still remains the case that there is no possible way to eliminate crimes by seriously mentally ill in any society

Should we accept it? No but we shouldn't accept the idea that more & more government control & less individual rights is anywhere sensible or anywhere better.

Crimes need to be the target of laws, sentencing & penalty.
It all reinforces what this government and/or this state's bureaucracy seem opposed to, proper laws that are fair, reasonable, proportionate & reflect the expectations of the WA Society to keep the WA Society as safe as possible

It should be...

1) Possession of an illegal unregistered firearm 10-15 years prison minimum, no parole.

2) The Sentence is PER FIREARM. Caught with 10 illegal guns, you're getting sentenced to 100-115 years prison minimum, no parole

3) All sentences served consectutively...so in the case of 10 illegal guns, 100-115 years is what is served.

4) Make the sentence for a stolen firearm double that...making life safer for lawful firearm owners.

No need to strengthen laws affecting lawful firearms users unless its absolutely necessary, proportionate, fair & actually address a large enough problem. Throw in a an amenesty so there's not a lot of guns thrown in the bin & found by others.

No anyone seeking out a gun will be worrying a lot. They'll have to think...

Will the person selling it to me later become an informer & tell police about me?

Will the person selling it to me turn out to be undercover police who'll charge/convict me or convert me into an informer that might affect my life expectancy?

 Strong penalties do not deter criminals, they live outside the system, they're fine breaking the law...they hate you, they hate the law. 
The ONLY thing that deters them is the likelihood of getting caught.
You add those 4 rule above you increase the chance of someone turning informant. You increase the chance of gathering more criminals for prosecution/conviction. The risk goes through the roof very close or at least a lot closer to almost certain.
Criminals are only worried about their ill gotten return, the risk is only a concern if it hits an almighty high.

The Government can short circuit an enormous amount of our already low gun crime in WA by introducing the above 4 laws.

Why is this not happening as it makes society safer, it makes break ins at Gun Shops & homes with gun safes even more unlikely, making them and us safer? Seriously, why is this not happening??