A homemade plastic gun could pass through ... It took a high-end 3-D printer 10 to 18 hours to print the parts and cost $80 to $170 in materials, Griffith said. The gun made from lower- grade ...

Politics. The Unstoppable Plastic Gun Cody Wilson distributed plans for 3D-printable weapons to the world, got shut down by the federal government, and won anyway.

One gun made with a plastic called ABS-M30 fired a .380-caliber round without failing all eight times it was tested, ATF officials said, describing it as “a lethal weapon.” ...

Kirk Garrison, a forensics expert with the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department, has spent years working at the intersection ...

Andy Greenberg's been doing some great stuff on the development of the "Liberator", the plastic gun made (almost) entirely with a 3D-printing machine. In his latest missive on the subject he tells ...

Researchers are analyzing the ballistics of 3-D printed guns and the plastic they leave behind to help forensic scientists track these DIY weapons.

Defense Distributed's plan is to put the power of guns in the hands of every person with access to the internet and a 3D printer. Until now, however, we'd only seen the Liberator pistol built ...

But an environmental organization says it will give them a second life through recycling and education.   Around 1,500 brightly colored water guns arrived at TRU, a nonprofit based in Gyeonggi, on ...

A Texas law student has created a huge stir by printing out a functional handgun using a 3-D printer. But will a court decision about marijuana influence the matter?

Senator Chuck Schumer and Senator Bill Nelson of Florida are trying to make plastic guns illegal. They say a Texas student’s recent invention of a working plastic gun — using a 3D printer ...

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