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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.
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 ...
The subject of 3D printed guns gained such attention that in 2014, Netflix included it in its documentary "Print the Legend", a film about the significance of 3D printing technology. [68] The company Defense Distributed, founded by Cody Wilson, started posting 3D-printed gun blueprints
"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 ...
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.
The gun is made up of 34 3D-printed components. [17] Notable as the first fully metal 3D-printed firearm. Zig Zag revolver [5] [18] 2014, May [18] Primarily printed firearm: Revolver [5] FDM [5] Yoshitomo Imura [18] Metal pins, screws, rubber bands .38 Caliber Named after the German Mauser Zig-Zag revolver.
In August 2013, DEFCAD released the public alpha of its 3D search engine, which indexes public object repositories and allows users to add their own objects. The site soon closed down due to pressure from the United States State Department, claiming that distributing certain files online violates US Arms Export ITAR regulations.
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