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help other people find us. Welcome to Wired's Uncanny Valley. I'm Wired's director of business

and industry, Zoe Schiffer. Today on the show, Wired built and tested a 3D printed pistol,

the exact same model of the gun that Luigi

Nangioni allegedly used in the brutal killing of a healthcare CEO last year. Untraceable

and often built entirely in private, ghost guns remain legal in some parts of the country,

due in part to a loophole in the U.S. federal gun control laws. Today, we hear about the process of creating a ghost gun, how those laws have evolved over time,

and what future regulations may come.

I'm joined today by Andy Greenberg, senior writer at Wired.

Andy, welcome to the show.

Glad to be here. Thanks.

Andy, you've been reporting on ghost guns for a really long time, and you said you started out this story with a question.

Has the law in the United States actually caught up with the technology?

And so I guess I want to just start by asking you that same question. Has it?

Well, the short answer is no.

Even as the technology to make these so-called ghost guns,

and a particular 3D printed guns, has gotten more powerful, more practical, far, far cheaper,

the law has really lagged behind.

And it's opened up this kind of space between the technology and the law that has allowed people

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