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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 ...
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.
European officials have noted that producing a 3D-printed gun would be illegal under their gun control laws, [26] and that criminals have access to other sources of weapons, but noted that as the technology improved the risks of an effect would increase. [27] [28] Downloads of the plans from the UK, Germany, Spain, and Brazil were heavy. [29] [30]
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 ...
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It is designed to be run wet or dry, averaging 127.7–128.4 dBA with 147 grain or 127.6–134.2 dBA with 124 grain when dry and 123.1 dBA with 147 grain or 129.1 dBA with 124 grain when wet. [84] It is an additively manufactured titanium weapon suppressor. It is 50% lighter than some conventional steel suppressors [79] The Israel drum magazine ...
The design is a remix of an earlier 3D printable firearm, the Shuty AP-9 pistol by Derwood. [13] 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.