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Horizontal 20-round detachable magazine; Liberator .380 [4] [5] 2013, May [4] [6] [7] Primarily printed firearm: Pistol: Single shot FDM [8] Defense Distributed [9] Roofing nail .380 ACP: A single shot .380 ACP pistol. [4] [6] [7] Fully 3D printed including springs, requiring only a roofing nail; Notable as the first publicly released printed ...
The upper and lower receivers of the FGC-9 are fully 3D-printed, as are its pistol grip and stock. Its magazine, based on the Glock magazine design, may also be printed. For the MkI, an AR-15 or modified airsoft trigger system is needed for the fire control. In the MkII release, the developers released a package to 3D-print the AR-15 trigger.
Defense Distributed is an online, open-source hardware and software organization that develops digital schematics of firearms in CAD files, or "wiki weapons", that may be downloaded from the Internet and used in 3D printing or CNC milling applications. [2]
"In the era of 3D printing, we must do the same for downloadable guns and accessories." A 3D-printed “machinegun conversion device” (orange) is installed in a 3d-printed Glock-style pistol for ...
[2] 3D-printed gun culture is built around the printing of open-source firearm frames and receivers, the use of standard, metal commercial components (like an action and barrel), and other parts that can be made or purchased in a parts kit. [3] [a] While 3D-printed parts are made in the development and production of conventional firearms, they ...
Nationally, from 2017 to 2021, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives recovered 5,454 machine gun conversion parts, marking a 570% increase over the preceding five years.
Firearms using detachable magazines are made with an opening known as a magazine well into which the detachable magazine is inserted. The magazine well locks the magazine in position for feeding cartridges into the chamber of the firearm, and requires a device known as a magazine release to allow the magazine to be separated from the firearm. [33]
Come and Take It: The Gun Printer's Guide to Thinking Free is an autobiographical book written by American gun rights activist, author and crypto-anarchist, Cody Wilson in 2016. The book describes Wilson's decisions behind wanting to create the world's first 3D printed gun, the Liberator, and the formation of his company Defense Distributed and ...