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Last week, the 10-member Philadelphia City Council unanimously passed a preemptive measure banning the production of firearms made by 3D printers. In doing so, Philly has become the first U.S. city to outlaw a practice that...

Image via Wikipedia Commons 3D printers have opened up a world of opportunities including one very scary one - the means to fabricate firearms. In order to protect the public against 3D-printed guns, officials in New York...

It has only been a couple of days since the Liberator 3D-printed gun was successfully fired in Texas by Defense Distributed. But after the gun was downloaded over 100,000 times in just two days, the State Department told...

There are those who will only let their firearms be taken away from their cold, dead 3D printers. Defense Distributed, a group of IT professionals, students, and engineers located in the US and Germany, have reported to Forbes...

The world's first 3D-printed gun was successfully fired over the weekend, officially ushering in a new era of "wiki weapons." University of Texas law student Cody Wilson launched an Indiegogo campaign to fund the Liberator...

The world's first 3D-printed gun was successfully fired over the weekend, officially ushering in a new era of "wiki weapons." University of Texas law student Cody Wilson launched an Indiegogo campaign to fund the Liberator...

Thanks to companies like MakerBot, 3d printed replicas have become easily accessible to consumers everywhere, but would anyone have ever thought that would make firearms more accessible? Defense Distributed is a 3D printing...