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A Tasmanian man who fired a homemade, 3D-printed gun at the grandmother of his partner’s infant child during a family dispute ...
On today’s episode of ‘Uncanny Valley,’ we discuss how WIRED was able to legally 3D-print the same gun allegedly used by Luigi Mangione, and where US law stands on the technology.
How easy has it become for someone to build a deadly, and untraceable weapon? With nothing more than a 3D printer and parts ...
Also in 2013, reporters from the Daily Mail newspaper in London 3D-printed a Liberator pistol and smuggled the disassembled gun onto a Eurostar train. They reassembled the gun in the toilet.
The first publicly available plans to make a 3D-printed gun were published online in 2013. And although Defense Distributed’s single-shot “Liberator” pistol generated plenty of headlines ...
But 3D-printed guns vary a lot. Some models — like the 3D-printed gun company Defense Distributed’s “Liberator” — can be made almost entirely on a 3D printer. Others require many ...
There are fully 3D-printed guns, like the Liberator pistol, an early design released in 2013 that was quickly attacked by the State Department for export violations; these are made of plastic and ...
In 2013, American Cody Wilson created "The Liberator" — widely regarded as one of the first 3D-printed firearms in the world. His mission was to make blueprints for his gun available for anyone ...
A group called Defense Distributed posted plans online in 2013 for the “Liberator,” one of the first 3D-printed guns, a crude, single-shot model that used a nail as a firing pin. Today ...
Image: Both the liberator (white) and the wash bear (black) guns are seen here broken after being fired Even with the advancing technologies, 3D-printed guns make up only a fraction of the Met ...
The Modern Liberator Three pictures from Myanmar reportedly show guerillas armed with FGC-9 carbines and a display of the carbines they’re building. Currently, 3D-printed guns aren’t long-use ...
released plans for the Liberator. The gun, named after a famed World War II–era pistol, could be manufactured almost entirely at home, with a 3D printer. The U.S. Department of State soon ...