With its awkward, cubelike body and a detachable barrel that wiggles slightly even after it's slotted into place, the Liberator looks more like a toy than one of the most controversial guns in. Back in 2013, Cody Wilson designed a 3Dprinted gun called The Liberator. After printing his own guns, he decided to share the plans on the internet through an organization called Defense Distributed. They're not supposed to be able to get them until later this week, but 1, 000 people have already downloaded plans for 3D printable guns, Pennsylvania's attorney general says. Ghost Gunner 2, Personal Gun Making Machine John Crump. com)Cody Wilson was deemed by Wired Magazine as the fifth most dangerous man in. Ghost Gunner Gun Making CNC Machine: DOJ Settles 3D Printed Gun Case, GhostGun Genie Is Out Of The Bottle. The printed gun seems limited, for now, to certain calibers of ammunition. After the handgun round, Wilson switched out the Liberators barrel for a highercharge 5. Media captionThe BBC's Rebecca Morelle saw the 3Dprinted gun's first test in Austin, Texas The world's first gun made with 3D printer technology has been successfully fired in the US. Defense Distributed, after legally committing its files to the public domain through a license from the U. Department of State, has been ordered to shut down its DEFCAD file repository by a federal judge in the Western District of Washington. based group Defense Distributed disclosed plans to design a working plastic gun that could be downloaded and reproduced by anybody with a 3D printer. Defense Distributed has also designed a 3D printable AR15 type rifle lower receiver (capable of lasting more than 650 rounds) and a variety of magazines, including for the AK47. In May 2013, Defense Distributed completed. On the range, we set up several cameras to see what would happen when we test fired a 3D printed gun at the range. Courts in three states bar release of 3Dprintable gun blueprints. President Trump's tweet came less than 24 hours before the technology for downloadable plastic guns was to become widely. FILE This May 10, 2013, file photo shows a plastic pistol that was completely made on a 3Dprinter at a home in Austin, Texas. A coalition of guncontrol groups has filed an appeal in federal court seeking to block a recent Trump administration ruling that will allow the publication of blueprints to build a 3Dprinted. '3D printed gun' discovered by police Police have foiled what they believe is the first attempt in Britain to manufacture guns using a 3D printer. BibMe Free Bibliography Citation Maker MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard Wilson first designed a 3Dprintable plastic pistol, called the Liberator. 380, in 2012 and put the plans online. The State Department quickly advised Wilson to remove the information, saying it. At the height of the 3D printing craze several years ago, a website called Defense Distributed made waves by offering a fully 3D printed gun called the Liberator for download. A few days after the blueprints for the world's first printable gun were published online, Defense Distributed has been asked by the State Department to pull them down, citing possible arms. The neverending talk of 3D printing guns continues to run rampant among owners of 3D printers, as well as legislators and gun control activists all around the world. The Liberator is a physible, 3Dprintable single shot handgun, the first such printable firearm design made widely available online. The open source firm Defense Distributed designed the gun and released the plans on the Internet on May 6, 2013. The plans were downloaded over 100, 000 times in the two days before the United States Department of State demanded that Defense Distributed retract. Cody Wilsons Defense Distributed and Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) reached a settlement with the Department of Justice allowing unfettered publication of 3D gun files and other information in a case centered on free speech. The 3Dprinted gun that Cody Wilson calls the Liberator. (Credit: Michael Thad Carter for Forbes) Eight months ago, Cody Wilson set out to create the world's first entirely 3D. When Cody Wilson and his company Defense Distributed released 3D printable files for the Liberator gun online back in 2013, an entirely new side of the debate over gun regulation began. Testing of the Liberator, his first fully printed pistol, finished in late April 2013, during his secondyear exams. He dropped out of the program the same week and uploaded his design files.