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Since 2013, I have followed the saga of Cody Wilson, the pioneer behind 3D-printed firearms. The Austin, Texas-based digital gunsmith famously demonstrated in March 2013 that it’s possible to build the lower receiver of an AR-15 on a 3D printer.
“Download this gun,” he told me by phone back then.
Since then, Wilson has gone on to build a one-shot pistol dubbed the “Liberator.” He moved on to two generations of CNC mills that could help citizens manufacture metal guns at home. (Those remain on sale—Wilson said he’s sold over 2,000 of the latest Ghost Gunner 2.)
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Source: Ars Technica – Come and Take It: “disintermediating the state,” one 3D-printed gun at a time