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The Urutau is designed for a global audience. The design is made for metric fasteners and other hardware, though imperial design alternatives are available for those living where sourcing metric hardware is difficult. The magazine is 3D-printable, and the entire design works without needing any commonly regulated, commercial gun parts.
The Liberator is a 3D-printable single-shot handgun, the first such printable firearm design made widely available online. [2] [3] [4] The open source firm Defense Distributed designed the gun and released the plans on the Internet on May 6, 2013.
Unlike the many early 3D-printed firearm designs, which were overbuilt in order to withstand the pressures and strain on the material from modern gunpowder cartridges, the Reprringer is small and only slightly larger than an equivalent gun made from steel. [10] Solid Concepts 1911 DMLS [13] 2013, November [13] Weapon: Browning 1911 handgun [2] [13]
Department of Justice officials announced national efforts Friday to crackdown on 3D-printed devices to convert guns to fire fully automatic.
While 3D-printed parts are made in the development and production of conventional firearms, they are more commonly associated with DIY guns in American gun politics. 3D-printed parts complicate the debates regarding high-capacity magazine and assault weapon bans, as well as federal regulations like the ATF's pistol brace rule.
The company is best known for developing and releasing the files for the Liberator, the world's first completely 3D printed gun. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] On May 5, 2013, Defense Distributed made these printable STL files public, [ 7 ] and within days the United States Department of State demanded they be removed from the Internet, citing a violation of the ...
Arrests related to 3D-printed guns have tripled in recent years; federal officials recovered more than 25,000 homemade guns in 2022 alone. And as the quality of 3D printers rise as prices fall ...
Cody Rutledge Wilson (born January 31, 1988) is an American gun rights activist and crypto-anarchist. [1] [2] He started Defense Distributed, a non-profit organization which develops and publishes open source gun designs, so-called "wiki weapons" created by 3D printing and digital manufacture.