State Department Compels Gunsmith to Remove 3D-Printed Gun Files

Cody Wilson, the mind behind the “Liberator,” the world’s first 3D-printed handgun, said he didn’t know what would happen once he upload the blueprints for the gun online

Now he does

The Department of State, through its Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance, forced Wilson to take down the online blueprints for the “Liberator” and all the other 3D-printed weapon parts that he has made available online. In a letter to Wilson, the State Department argues that by uploading the files, Wilson and his company, Defense Distributed, may have run afoul of export control laws, as first reported by Forbes. Read more…

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