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For the last six months, Cody Wilson and his non-profit group Defense Distributed have worked towards a controversial goal: To make as many firearm components as possible into 3D-printable, ...

When MakerBot booted 3D gun files from its file catalog in December, it may have created its own worst enemy: DEFCAD. That's pretty clear to me after watching the latest creepily effective video from ...

The DEFCAD file repository of 3D-printable gun blueprints is live. There, you can buy the plans to print parts for anything from an AR-15 to the plastic Liberator pistol. Defense Distributed, the ...

The group known as DEFCAD have, up until today, been known primarily for their supply of downloadable CAD (read: 3D Printing) templates for firearms. This week they've announced that they're going ...

Printing guns is poised to go from a hobby to a business. Cody Wilson, a 25-year-old University of Texas law student and founder of Defense Distributed—a nonprofit focused on providing templates for 3 ...

Defense Distributed has begun selling blueprints for guns that can be 3D printed at home in what may be considered circumvention of a court injunction aimed at preventing the spread of the designs.

Within 12 hours of Donald Trump tweeting that “3-D Plastic Guns being sold to the public… doesn’t seem to make much sense,” a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order to stop the release of ...

Eight states announced Monday that they plan to ask a federal judge in Seattle to immediately issue a temporary restraining order against Defense Distributed, a Texas-based group that has already ...

The so-called "Pirate Bay of 3D printing" has shut itself down—for now. DEFCAD, perhaps the best-known site to find the files for 3D-printed gun parts, has complied with an order from a federal judge ...