During a visit to New Zealand in July, Patel gave the plastic 3D-printed replica revolvers to five officials, who had to ...

Marrian Zhou is a Beijing-born Californian living in New York City. She joined CNET as a staff reporter upon graduation from Columbia Journalism School. When Marrian is not reporting, she is probably ...

If gun rights activist Cody Wilson gets his way in his legal battle, soon anybody – including convicted felons and the mentally ill – with a few raw materials and access to an industrial 3D printer ...

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 blueprints ...

Whether Americans will be able to download plans to build their own plastic guns at home will be debated in federal court yet again this week, with Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro and eight ...

Tasmania Police say they have discovered 3D printers, several 3D-printed firearms and silencers, cash and a quantity of ...

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 call ...

Cody Wilson, the founder of Defense Distributed, may soon disrupt the nationwide gun control debate with a 3D-printed gun. A 3D-printed gun capable of firing multiple rounds may be unveiled soon. Cody ...

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. A gun rights group ...

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 Austin ...