Tag: 3d printing

  • Triggers In Paris – 3D Printing A Liberator And Taking It On The Eurostar Train

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    Reporters print one up then take it on the Eurostar train from London to Paris: Two reporters passed completely unchallenged through strict airport-style security to carry the gun on to a London to Paris service in the weekend rush-hour, alongside hundreds of unsuspecting travelers. The gun produced by the reporters was split into three pieces and…

  • Defense Distributed Downloads Shut Down By DOD

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    Took only a few days for this to happen: #DEFCAD has gone dark at the request of the Department of Defense Trade Controls. Take it up with the Secretary of State. — Defense Distributed (@DefDist) May 9, 2013 Looks like the 3D printed firearm made the waves founder Cody Wilson was hoping it would make.…

  • The Shot Heard Around The World From A 3D Printed Firearm

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    A functional entirely 3D Printed firearm: Not many details on it yet, but there are some pics and you can download the files at DEFCAD. There are talks about the barrel being smoothbore, thus falling under the AOW (Any Other Weapon) provision of the NFA.  I wondering if “disposable” rifling was put in the barrel…

  • Defense Distributed Readying First Entirely 3D Printed Gun

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    Cody Wilson head of Defense Distributed promised this would happen: All sixteen pieces of the Liberator prototype were printed in ABS plastic with a Dimension SST printer from 3D printing company Stratasys, with the exception of a single nail that’s used as a firing pin. The gun is designed to fire standard handgun rounds, using…

  • VICE Interviews 3D Firearm Printing Maven Cody Wilson

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    It’s late so I haven’t watched it yet, I’m looking forward to checking it out tomorrow though.  I know some of you guys hate VICE with such a passion as seen by many of your regular rants about the interviewers being “hipster fags and/or douchebags” etc.. hahaha. This particular interviewer is old, non visibly tattooed,…

  • Vice Documentary On 3D Printed Firearms

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    Sweet, the full documentary is finally out: Besides the erroneous use of “ammunition clips” and “high capacity magazines”, the documentary is really awesome.  If you’ve been keeping up with my past posts on Defense Distributed and Cody Wilson a lot of it probably isn’t new to you. Interesting comments about kids likely being the first…