While most people are told to stay at home with nothing to do, a certain 3D-printing firearms company called Defcad has just recently released a whole trove of gun-making blueprints available only to ...

Not long ago it was the stuff of science fiction, but now US officials and lawmakers are grappling with a new reality -- the ability for citizens to print firearms at home. As of Wednesday, it will be ...

Ever since 3D printing went mainstream, there have been concerns about what the widespread availability of 3D-printed gun blueprints might mean. While guns are legal to own in the U.S., the fear of ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. One of the key reasons policymakers and law enforcement agencies find 3D printed guns worrisome is their so-called "untraceable" nature, ...

Officials in New Jersey and across the country are not backing down in their fight to stop a Texas nonprofit from publishing plans online for anyone to make 3D-printed guns, and the battle doesn't ...

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The marketplaces of the Dark Web are one-stop shops for criminals looking for drugs, weapons, and even explosives. And increasingly, they are also making more available “both manuals on how to ...

The Liberator, for all the hoopla, was not really a gun. This 3D-printed firearm, on the other hand, is a gun. It is a copy of a 1911 made using public-domain plans and a laser sintering system that ...

In the same way that no human fingerprint is exactly the same, neither are 3D printers -- and these small differences can be used to find the source of dangerous 3D-printed goods, researchers say.