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3D Printed Guns: Solution or Problem?

When someone from Defense Distributed test-fired a homemade gun assembled from 3D printed plastic parts during a demonstration on YouTube, it was a gunshot that heard all around the science world. Then...

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Death by 3D Printing: How Militaries around the World are Discovering the...

Militaries have been doing research into using 3D printing for warfare for several decades now. They are big users of ancillary technologies such as Direct Metal Deposition and Electron Beam Welding to...

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3D Printing Guns? Don’t Do It In California

In January 2014, California Senator Kevin de Leon introduced Senate Bill 808, a bill intended to regulate the manufacturing of homemade or 3D printed firearms otherwise known as “ghost guns” to the...

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Inventor of 3D printed plastic gun reveals a 3D printer that makes AR-15 rifles

Before legislation has even caught up with the technicalities of people printing their own plastic guns at home, the person responsible for inventing 3D guns has revealed his latest creation, a milling...

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3D printed gun makes and shoots paper airplanes

With all the recent controversy over the manufacturing of 3D printed guns, it’s refreshing to see that for one inventor, guns can be just be fun. German mechanical engineer, Dieter Michael Krone, has...

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Direct digital manufacturing and how to control its potential use for the...

In a world where it is now easier than ever to acquire the necessary components for missile and nuclear weapons programs, it has become more difficult for the international community to counter the...

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Japanese man arrested for making a 3D printed gun

The first arrest over 3D printed weapons has been made in Japan, a country with very strict firearm laws. Police officers raided the home of a 27 year-old college employee, where they found five 3D...

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New bullets could make 3D printed guns a dangerous reality

Guns were one of the very first things to be printed using 3D technology, but these models have all had one drawback – that plastic wasn’t the best substance to contain an explosive element. But a...

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