{"id":656211,"date":"2013-05-06T09:16:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T13:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=228361"},"modified":"2013-05-06T09:16:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T13:16:49","slug":"the-liberator-is-the-first-fully-3d-printed-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/656211","title":{"rendered":"The Liberator Is The First Fully 3D Printed Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/tag\/defense-distributed\">Defense Distributed<\/a>, Cody Wilson&#8217;s controversial startup that aims to create the first fully 3D printed gun, has finally achieved its goal. In a video released over the weekend, Wilson shows off a test firing of the Liberator. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"616\" height=\"347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/drPz6n6UXQY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Liberator doesn&#8217;t look all that impressive or intimidating, but it&#8217;s not meant to. It&#8217;s meant to fire bullets, and the above video demonstrates that it does just that. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/andygreenberg\/2013\/05\/03\/this-is-the-worlds-first-entirely-3d-printed-gun-photos\/\">According to Forbes<\/a>, the Liberator is made entirely out of ABS plastic except for a nail used as the firing pin. The gun also contains a small stip of steel so as not to run afoul of the Undetectable Firearms Act. <\/p>\n<p>What may have some people concerned, however, is that not every Liberator will include this strip of steel. Wilson has already <a href=\"http:\/\/defcad.org\/liberator\/\">published the blueprints<\/a> for the Liberator at Defcad so anybody with a 3D printer can now print a handgun. The Liberator&#8217;s blueprints also include multiple barrels so the gun can fire different calibers of ammunition. <\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, the Liberator is going to make some people rather uncomfortable. Senators are probably going to draft legislation that&#8217;s intended to stop the creation of 3D printed weapons, and may even target 3D printers themselves. Even if that did happen, it really wouldn&#8217;t do anything as the blueprint is now on the Internet. It will be incredibly hard, if not impossible, to keep the Liberator out of 3D printer\/gunsmith enthusiasts&#8217; hands. <\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that the Liberator in its current form isn&#8217;t going to start arming every man, woman and child with their own handgun. For starters, the gun is still incredibly fragile. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/andygreenberg\/2013\/05\/05\/meet-the-liberator-test-firing-the-worlds-first-fully-3d-printed-gun\/2\/\">A separate Forbes report<\/a> that covered the initial firing test says that the gun exploded upon an attempt to fire a rifle cartridge. Even when firing compatible bullets, the gun can only fire one round at a time. <\/p>\n<p>Still, this is a big step forward for Defense Distributed and 3D printing. Something that many, myself included, thought was years away is now here, albeit in a limited form. It will be interesting to see where Wilson and Defense Distributed do next. <\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=tWJ_DQmW0Mw:H0m4bvFDVjQ:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=tWJ_DQmW0Mw:H0m4bvFDVjQ:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=tWJ_DQmW0Mw:H0m4bvFDVjQ:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=tWJ_DQmW0Mw:H0m4bvFDVjQ:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=tWJ_DQmW0Mw:H0m4bvFDVjQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=tWJ_DQmW0Mw:H0m4bvFDVjQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=tWJ_DQmW0Mw:H0m4bvFDVjQ:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=tWJ_DQmW0Mw:H0m4bvFDVjQ:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=tWJ_DQmW0Mw:H0m4bvFDVjQ:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/tWJ_DQmW0Mw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Distributed, Cody Wilson&#8217;s controversial startup that aims to create the first fully 3D printed gun, has finally achieved its goal. In a video released over the weekend, Wilson shows off a test firing of the Liberator. The Liberator doesn&#8217;t look all that impressive or intimidating, but it&#8217;s not meant to. It&#8217;s meant to fire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}