by Robert Beckhusen | May 6, 2013 | Monitor
They started by printing their own gun parts and magazines. Now the internet gunsmiths at Defense Distributed have produced the world’s first fully 3-D printed gun. It’s been tested, and it works.
by Robert Beckhusen | Oct 25, 2012 | Monitor
Three weeks after a group of desktop gunsmiths had its leased 3D printer seized by the digital manufacturing firm that owned it, the weaponeers have quietly restarted plans to build a gun entirely of printed parts. The group has also begun expanding their operation...
by Robert Beckhusen | Oct 3, 2012 | Monitor
Direct digital manufacturing company Stratasys may have pulled the lease on a 3-D printer rented out by a group of unlicensed internet gunsmiths. But they’re all for making money by printing guns. According to internal sales documents acquired by Danger...
by Robert Beckhusen | Oct 1, 2012 | Monitor
Cody Wilson planned in the coming weeks to make and test a 3-D printed pistol. Now those plans have been put on hold as desktop-manufacturing company Stratasys pulled the lease on a printer rented out for Wiki Weapon, the internet project lead by Wilson and dedicated...