If gun rights activist Cody Wilson gets his way in his legal battle, soon anybody – including convicted felons and the mentally ill – with a few raw materials and access to an industrial 3D printer ...

A 22-year-old man will face court after multiple 3D-printed guns were seized in a police raid, along with gel blasters, metal ...

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Inoperable pistols gifted by FBI Director Kash Patel to senior New Zealand security officials, who had to relinquish them for destruction because they were illegal to possess, were revolvers inspired ...

The Liberator 3D printed gun, designed by Defense Distributed, a self-described nonprofit private defense company based in Austin, Texas. A federal judge temporarily stopped the release of blueprints ...

Not long ago, it was the stuff of science fiction, but now US officials and lawmakers are grappling with a new reality – citizens having the ability to print firearms at home. A gun rights group ...

No fully plastic guns existed when Congress first passed the Undetectable Firearms Act in 1988. But grassroots efforts to create a 3D-printable plastic gun have alarmed one congressman enough to call ...

Whether Americans will be able to download plans to build their own plastic guns at home will be debated in federal court yet again this week, with Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro and eight ...

Defense Distributed, the pro-gun nonprofit working to make 3D-printable gun designs freely available to everyone on the Internet, recently inched one step closer toward achieving that goal. The Austin ...

What are 3-D printed guns, like this Liberator pistol, and why is the president of the United States suddenly tweeting about them? Credit: Robert MacPherson/AFP/Getty Images On Tuesday, President ...