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 ...

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 ...

For decades, weapons manufacturing has been the domain of arms industry heavyweights: Glock, Sig Sauer, Remington, Sturm, Ruger & Co. Making a gun from scratch at home required thousands of dollars of ...

Police investigating the shooting of United Healthcare 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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- The debate over 3D-printed firearms began in 2013 when Cody Wilson, the founder of Texas-based Defense Distributed, published downloadable designs for a 3D-printed firearm. His ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Author: Nir Kshetri, University of North Carolina – Greensboro Police investigating ...

Arrests linked to 3D-printed guns are also rising. The world recorded 108 arrests in the first half of 2023, compared to 66 arrests in all 2022. North America leads in 3D-printed gun-related arrests, ...

Police investigating the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Dec. 4, have announced that the suspected assailant had used a 3D-printed gun. Several high-profile crimes in recent years ...

A federal judge in Seattle hearing arguments over a settlement that allows a Texas company to post online plans for printing 3D guns said Tuesday the overall issue of such untraceable plastic weapons ...

At long last, someone other than Defense Distributed has taken the group's 3D-printable design and turned it into a working firearm and fired it. But, and I cannot emphasize this enough, this gun is ...