3D-Printing Gun Laws: Girding for the Future of Terrorism

Muhammad Faizal Abdul Rahman

Global Network

28 January 2021

In a commentary about Singapore’s new law that makes the “unauthorised possession of blueprints” for “the manufacture of a gun or a major part of a gun on a 3D printer” a crime, RSIS Research Fellow Muhammad Faizal Abdul Rahman wrote about how looking ahead, it would be short-sighted to miss how 3D printing in effect could mark a repeat of history and amalgamate the two areas of technological developments – weaponry and mass communications – that underpinned the birth of modern terrorism. New laws, supplemented by partnerships, could help future-proof societies against terrorist threats that are improbable today but plausible tomorrow, he added.

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