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3D-Printed Gun Success For First Trial

Sunday, May 5, 2013 15:45

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Cody Wilson, has spent more than a year dreaming of this latest creation, which he has dubbed “the Liberator” in an homage to the one-shot pistols designed to be air-dropped by the Allies over France during its Nazi occupation in World War II.

His creation a 3-d gun. It is entirely plastic and fifteen of its sixteen pieces have created inside an $8,000 second hand Stratasys Dimension SST 3D printer, a machine that lays down threads of melted polymer that add up to a precisely-shaped solid objects just as easily as a tradional printer lays ink on a page. The only non-printed piece is a common hardware store nail used as its firing pin.

AT the testing the shooter has just pulled a twenty-foot length of yellow string tied to a trigger, which successfully fired the worlds first entirely 3D-printed gun for the first time, rocketing a .380 caliber bullet into a berm of dirt and prairie brush.

The barrel which was printed over the course of four hours ealier the same day, and despite the explosion inside of it when fired came away unscathed, as did the body of the gun.

“You can print a lethal device. It’s kind of scary, but that’s what we’re aiming to show,” Wilson told the reporter from Forbes “Anywhere there’s a computer and an Internet connection, there would be the promise of a gun.”

The Liberator fired a standard .380 handgun round without visible damage, though it is also misfired on another occasion when the firing pin failed and hit the primer cap in the loaded cartridge due to misalignment in the hammer body, resulting in an anti-climatic thunk.

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