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That's what we don't want to see. we want atf to say this is why we did this, here is how we'll treat the information, we'll treat everybody in a fair manner, which is what we wan from them. >> i know you can't see our screen. what's on the screen is the lower receiver. apparently you can put these parts to put together your own guns. is that correct? >> yes. you can make your own guns. i've done that, my brother, family members, friends. you can make your own rifles. they sell lower receivers, which are not weapons. if that lore receiver kroshs a threshold, it can be thought of as a weapon. t...

Interview with cnbc. >> i don't think this is for mass weapons. i think it is for customizable weapons. you should be able to have the tools to make weapons for yourself. >> other gun parts have been 3-d printed before. $20 for this key part called a lower receiver. a 30 bullet magazine printable version is $10. the magic is this $8,0003-d printer bought used. the liberator shapes were drawn with a computer aided design program pushing print into the 3-d outpresideut. plastic faucets could be made and car disc brakes. the inventor said they are working on more improvements. perhaps turning dow...

This next clip from our documentary which airs tonight, it may render some of this stuff moot. the only part of a gun right now that is traceable they call the lower receiver and a serial number on where you have the trigger, manufactured and metal stamp and you can scratch it off. we went to austin, texas to interview a kid who is making these things out of a 3d printable and wants them untraceable and wants everybody to have them. watch this. wilson is on his way toward making the first disappearing ar-15. is your goal to design a gun specifically that can't be detactable at airport x-ray ma...

Kind of gun it is, is that it is a crappy gun because it blew apart after six rounds. but this kind of thing probably wouldn't stay a crappy gun for long, that is what i said the day we broadcast that on december 17th, which was three days after newtown. this week, the folks that 3-d-printed the receiver, the one that failed, the one i called the crappy gun. look at it this week, they unveiled this one, it with stood more than 660 rounds of high velocity bullets, that holds dozens of bullets. they only stopped firing with what they said was their 3-d home-printer. they claim this lower receive...

Of, that you have programmed it to make. but you can create a physical, three dimensional object that with something that is the equivalent of a printer. these things cost a few thousand bucks, but it is a relatively straight forward thing. these exists. there are a bunch of different brands of them out there. it's neat. it's also interesting and complicated and maybe quandary inducing when you consider people are starting to build things with 3d printers. one of the things people are already starting to make is a gun. if you think about a gun as being a car, then the engine and the drive trai...