Fingerprinting in 3D printing could curb ghost guns, yet raises debates over privacy, regulation, and enforcement on personal ...

The use of 3D-printed guns in criminal and violent activities is likely to continue to increase. And governments and police will continue to have trouble regulating them.

A federal court in Seattle has issued a temporary restraining order blocking Cody Wilson and Defense Distribution from uploading plans for 3D printed guns.

Since their release on the web on Monday, the Defense Distributed plans for a 3D-printable pistol have been downloaded 100,000 times. The number of weapons successfully printed from those ...

Citing the threat of plastic, 3D-printed firearms, U.S. Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., held a press conference this weekend calling for the renewal of the Undetectable Firearms Act. The act was ...

VideoAn image from Defense Distributed's website of an AK-47 being loaded with a 3D-printed magazine. For the last six months, Cody Wilson and his non-profit group Defense Distributed have ...

Mechanical engineering student James Patrick is bound to turn some heads with his PM522 Washbear, a 3D-printed pepperbox revolver capable of firing up to 8 bullets between reloads.

Technology experts and stakeholders on both sides of the gun control debate are divided on whether the emergence of 3D-printed plastic guns presents an immediate safety threat to U.S communities.

A "Wiki Weapon" project took its first steps toward making a fully 3D printable gun by test-firing an assault rifle made with just one 3D-printed part. On the sixth shot, disaster struck for the gun.

A man in West Virginia known only as Derwood has successfully printed a fully operational, semi-automatic weapon with 95 percent of its parts 3D-printed.