3D printed guns a year on: from prototype to serious weapons
A burgeoning subculture of 3D printed gun enthusiasts dreams of the day when a lethal firearm can be downloaded or copied by anyone, anywhere, as easily as a pirated episode of Game of Thrones. Among the half-dozen plastic guns seized from Yoshitomo Imura's home in Kawasaki was a revolver designed to fire six.38-caliber bullets -- five more than the Liberator printed pistol that inspired Imura's experiments. In a video he posted online six months ago, Imura assembles the handgun from plastic 3D printed pieces, a few metal pins, screws and rubber bands, then test fires it with blanks. It's been a full year since I watched the radical libertarian group Defense Distributed test fire the Liberator, the first fully printable gun, for the first time. "With the Liberator we were trying to communicate a kind of singularity, to create a moment," says Cody Wilson, who founded Defense Distributed and hand-fired the first 3D printed gun in May, 2013.
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