Fingerprinting in 3D printing could curb ghost guns, yet raises debates over privacy, regulation, and enforcement on personal ...

Other 3D-printed gun designs have been online for over five years, but concern about the weapons has reached a fever pitch in the last week with the controversial settlement.

The Liberator 3D printed gun, designed by Defense Distributed, a self-described nonprofit private defense company based in Austin, Texas. A federal judge temporarily stopped the release of ...

A federal court in Seattle has issued a temporary restraining order blocking Cody Wilson and Defense Distribution from uploading plans for 3D printed guns.

Technology experts and stakeholders on both sides of the gun control debate are divided on whether the emergence of 3D-printed plastic guns presents an immediate safety threat to U.S communities.

No fully plastic guns existed when Congress first passed the Undetectable Firearms Act in 1988. But grassroots efforts to create a 3D-printable plastic gun have alarmed one congressman enough to ...

In June, a Texas gun-rights group, Defense Distributed, reached a settlement with the government that would allow it to post designs for 3D printable guns online.

D printing has opened up whole new avenues of creativity, for anything from simple tools to complex devices, but are there ...

Volokh says that the legal battle over 3D-printed guns is likely to hinge on the First Amendment right to freedom of speech, not the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

Defense Distributed, the pro-gun nonprofit working to make 3D-printable gun designs freely available to everyone on the Internet, recently inched one step closer toward achieving that goal. The ...