The web is on fire with reports of the world’s first 3D printed handgun. It’s been a perfect media storm fuelled by two high-level news cycles. First, the public is concerned about gun violence in t…
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Cody Wilson Unveils The ‘Fully’ 3D Printed Gun to Andy Greenberg at Forbes
Ahead of writing up this brief report the best I can promise is that I will try REALLY hard to stay objective ….. So in the last few hours this link has been sent to me ‘a few’ times. It’s getting, an…
3D printed gun seized by TSA
The Transportation Security Administration claims to have found a 3D printed gun in a passenger’s carry-on bag at Reno Airport. The TSA website revealed a revolver, together with .22 bullets, but it s…
FedEx, UPS Refuse to Ship Ghost Gunner Gun Milling Machine
The subject of the 3D printed gun is a touchy one, on the one hand representing individual rights for those in favor of the idea and representing collective harm for those opposed. It’s been st…
Japanese Company Wants to Keep You from 3D Printing Guns, Knives and Mickey Rat
News broke last month of a Japanese man who was arrested for the possession of five different 3D printed guns. So, although many of us in the United States and the west have already experienced this s…
Japanese Man Arrested for Possession of Multiple 3D Printed Guns
Here we go again! Just when you thought it was safe to visit 3DPI without seeing another story about 3D printed guns, someone turns up in the news with a whole boatload of them. 27-year-old Yoshitomo …
The Spies in Your 3D Printer
A friend recently sent me a link to an article that was written more than a year ago. In it, writer Cameron Naramore explores the possibility that 3D printers could someday spy on their users. He refe…
If You Can't Stop it, Trace it — Personalised Forensics and 3D Printing
Earlier this year, Cody Wilson’s Defence Distributed scared many of us with the potential menace of putting a gun “anywhere there’s a computer and an Internet connection”. The varied respo…
The 3D Printed Gun: Individual Freedom, Collective Violence
With the recent atrocities committed in Newton, Connecticut and Aurora, Colorado, it’s only natural that the most prevalent news surrounding 3D printers — particularly in the US — has been about the g…