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Ghost Guns, a popular site for the technology, sells a 3D printer starter kit for about $300 that includes the blueprints for a .22 caliber pistol and filament − the material the printer uses.
Ghost guns can have a mix of 3D printed components and metal parts. Yuki Iwamura/AFP via Getty Images Police said they found a "ghost gun" on the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting suspect.
Police said Luigi Mangione, the man charged in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, appears to have had a ghost gun, a weapon that can be made using a 3D printer.
The design is a remix of an earlier 3D printable firearm, the Shuty AP-9 pistol by Derwood. [12] Where the "Shuty" relied on several factory-made or machined gun parts (like the barrel) in order to be completed, the FGC-9 made ergonomic and mechanical changes to accommodate builders without access to commercial gun parts or machine shops.
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.
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.
Users could then utilize tools or a 3D printer to complete the kit by building their own receiver or frame, creating a usable and untraceable gun. Over the past decade, ghost guns have been used ...
As of April 2020, there are at least two bills that aim to control the distribution of firearm kits as well as 3D printed firearms in the Commonwealth: Bill H.3843, [74] "An Act relative to ghost guns", presented by Marjorie C. Decker of 25th Middlesex district, and Bill S.2649, [75] "An Act relative to 3D printed firearm and ghost guns ...