In the wake of the second-deadliest school shooting in American history, 3-D printer company MakerBot is cracking down on downloadable designs for printable gun parts.. Like other 3-D printers, a ...

Entrepreneur behind fight for sharing 3D printed gun blueprints on why he's advocating for 'the people's right to keep and bear arms' A judge temporarily stopped Cody Wilson from posting 3-D gun ...

Gun Made With 3-D Printer Is Successfully Fired : The Two-Way The almost entirely plastic weapon fires .22-caliber bullets. Critics fear it will make such guns too easy to make and too hard to detect.

Just what are 3D-printed guns? 3D guns are firearms assembled from ABS plastic parts – the same material found in Legos – that can be made with a 3D printer.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. – In the basement research lab of the agency that regulates America's firearms, two dozen 3D printers hummed, stringing thermoplastic filament into computer-designed patterns ...

3D-printed guns, often described as a type of "ghost" gun, are untraceable firearms that can be assembled using a 3D printer, downloadable blueprints and some basic materials.

Access to 3-D printers is still a hurdle. 3-D-printed guns are printed in several plastic parts that the user has to assemble on his or her own. Wilson said it takes about 24 hours to create a pistol.

That gun’s blueprint was blocked by a federal judge, before being overturned in the Ninth Circuit. Of course, guns are far from the most popular things being produced by 3D printers.

Electroloom has early designs for a 3-D printer that can make on-demand apparel. And with a new grant, it may be able to print ready to wear by year's end.

That was what some early iterations of 3D-printed guns allowed. People could print rifle receivers, especially for AR-15 type rifles, and supplement with off-the-shelf parts.