The 3D-printed gun that Cody Wilson calls the "Liberator." Click to enlarge. (Credit: Michael Thad Carter for Forbes) May 07, 2013 -" Forbes " - Eight months ago, Cody Wilson set out to create the world’s first entirely 3D-printable handgun . Now he has. Early next week, Wilson, a 25-year-old University of Texas law student and founder of the non-profit group Defense Distributed, plans to release the 3D-printable CAD files for a gun he calls “the Liberator,” pictured in its initial form above. He’s agreed to let me document the process of the gun’s creation, so long as I don’t publish details of its mechanics or its testing until it’s been proven to work reliably and the file has been uploaded to Defense Distributed’s online collection of printable gun blueprints at Defcad.org . Update : Here’s my full account of Defense Distributed’s first test-firings of the Liberator, including firing it by hand . All sixteen pieces of the Liberator
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