![]() ![]() (Defense Distributed)ĭefense Distributed has previously posted a video of someone firing a gun with certain key parts that were made in a 3D printer, but this is its first time it has made available a blueprint for an entire, working 3D printable gun. Individual components of the gun are made of plastic by depositing the material layer by layer using a 3D printer, according to downloadable blueprints. However, anyone who tries to download the file is invited to donate money to the group's "Wiki Weapon" project. The video invites people to download the CAD (computer-aided design) file for the gun from a website called DEFCAD. Its only non-plastic part is a metal nail that is used as a firing pin - the only part of the gun that would be detectable by metal detectors used to check for weapons. The pistol is made of plastic using a 3D printer, which deposits the material layer by layer by squirting it out as it scans across, line by line, the way a regular printer does. The non-profit group, which says it aims to challenge gun laws, posted a video of a successful test firing of its Liberator pistol on its blog Sunday. The group held demonstrations for the media at a Texas firing range this on Friday and Saturday. Texas-based Defense Distributed has just made the blueprints for the gun available free so it can be replicated by others in their own 3D printers. A plastic gun made in a 3D printer fired real bullets during demonstrations over the weekend. ![]()
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