The world’s biggest social media sites are home to thousands of 2nd Amendment devotees who believe anyone should be able to use a 3D printer to build their own gun. Meta, Discord and the DOJ are ...
More than a decade after the advent of the 3D-printed gun as an icon of libertarianism and a gun control nightmare, police say one of those homemade plastic weapons has now been found in the hands of ...
The 'iron pipeline' of illegal guns has become the 'kitchen table pipeline' of 3D printed plastic weapons, writes Manhattan ...
For decades, America's detectives have made breakthroughs in crime using gun traces. A homicide investigator typically uses ballistics and serial numbers of weapons checked via a vast network of gun ...
A federal firearms official displays several guns that are either entirely or partially 3D-printed. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Police investigating the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian ...
Homemade firearms are spreading faster than governments can keep up. For many gun designers, that’s the idea. By Thomas Gibbons-Neff Thomas Gibbons-Neff writes about guns and gun culture. He learned ...
Anna Schecter is the senior coordinating producer for CBS News and Stations' Crime and Public Safety Unit, based in New York. A growing online gun rights movement known as "3D2A," and the ...
For the last hour, in a backroom of a gun range in Arabi, Louisiana, I’ve been building Luigi Mangione’s gun. Well, not his, in the literal sense. The not-quite-finished firearm in my hands is very ...
This story was originally published by The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence. Subscribe to its newsletters. For decades, weapons manufacturing has been the domain of arms industry ...
Police investigating the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Dec. 4, 2024, have announced that the suspected assailant had used a 3D-printed gun. Several high-profile crimes in recent ...
It’s a truism at this point to say that Americans own a lot of guns. Case in point: This week, a fire chief in rural Alabama stopped to help a driver who had just hit a deer. The two men walked up the ...