Yesterday, the 3D-printed gun operation Defense Distributed –whom ANIMAL profiled recently— posted the above video, which shows an assault rifle emptying 30 rounds from a new 3D-printed magazine design. The magazine’s name? The “Cuomo” after the New York governor, who recently signed a bill banning all magazines larger than seven rounds. “He [Cuomo] wants to be associated with these magazines,” Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed told Talking Points Memo. “Lets make that association permanent.”
New York Democratic Congressman Steve Israel hopes to federally outlaw 3D-printed guns and magazines this December, when the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 expires and goes up for renewal. The act, which outlaws the manufacture, sale, and possession of plastic guns that could pass through x-rays and metal detectors without…
Here's the latest addition to the Victoria & Albert Museum's permanent collection: the Liberator, the world's first 3D-printed gun. The London design museum "acquired two Liberator prototypes, one disassembled gun, and a number of archive items" from Defense Distributed, the company behind the Liberator, and displayed them this weekend as…
Defense Distributed, the company that has made a name for itself creating 3D-printed rifle parts and hosting them online, claims to have created the world's first fully 3D-printed gun, and has already made the design available for download. The handgun, dubbed the Liberator, has 16 parts, 15 of which are…
