World’s First Fully 3D-Printed Gun Successfully Test-Fired, Named ‘The Liberator”

Further to my post of 29 April 2013 ( http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2013/04/3d-printed-weapons-producer-says-hes.html ), over the weekend in Austin, Texas, 25-year-old Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson and a partner have successfully test-fired the world’s first fully 3D-printed gun.  In the end, they used a common hardware-store nail as a firing pin, the 16-piece firearm’s only non-printed component.  Mr. Wilson has named his creation “The Liberator” after the cheap, one-shot pistols designed to be air-dropped by the Allies over Nazi-occupied France in World War II.

Defense Distributed’s CAD file for the Liberator and its video introducing the gun are now available on line at:

http://defcad.org/liberator/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=drPz6n6UXQY

Recent news reports at:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/05/05/meet-the-liberator-test-firing-the-worlds-first-fully-3d-printed-gun/

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/cody-wilsons-fully-3d-printed-gun-works-alarmingly-well
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22421185

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/06/3-handgun-fired-cody-wilson

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/first-3-d-printed-gun-fired-its-digital-blueprints-make-6C9790795

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/6/4304164/video-of-defense-distributed-liberator-3d-printed-gun-test

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/05/03/this-is-the-worlds-first-entirely-3d-printed-gun-photos/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulhsieh/2013/05/07/why-3d-printed-untraceable-guns-could-be-good-for-america/

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/05/06/meet_cody_wilson_the_anarchist_behind_the_worlds_first_3_d_printed_gun

Background to this story at:
http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2013/04/3d-printed-weapons-producer-says-hes.html
http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2013/05/can-equipment-manufacturer-reclaim-its.html
http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2012/07/gun-enthusiast-uses-3d-printer-to-make.html