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Defense Distributed is an online, open-source hardware and software organization that develops digital schematics of firearms in CAD files, or "wiki weapons", that may be downloaded from the Internet and used in 3D printing or CNC milling applications. [2]
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.
Unlike the many early 3D-printed firearm designs, which were overbuilt in order to withstand the pressures and strain on the material from modern gunpowder cartridges, the Reprringer is small and only slightly larger than an equivalent gun made from steel. [13] Solid Concepts 1911 DMLS [16] 2013, November [16] Weapon: Browning 1911 handgun [5] [16]
Department of Justice officials announced national efforts Friday to crackdown on 3D-printed devices to convert guns to fire fully automatic.
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]
The announcement of the settlement, which involved a temporary modification of the ITAR, came as a surprise to many in the gun control movement and was immediately challenged by over 20 state attorneys general in various federal venues. [10] Cases prompted as a reaction to Defense Distributed I include: State of Washington v. U.S. Dept. of State
The gun's name is an initialism for "Fuck Gun Control", where the "9" refers to its 9mm cartridge. [8] Released with accompanying documentation to aid its production and assembly, as well as the production of suitable ammunition, the FGC-9 is premised on the idea of undermining worldwide gun control.