WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Inoperable pistols gifted by FBI Director Kash Patel to senior New Zealand security officials, who had to relinquish them for destruction because they were illegal to ...

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 ...

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 ...

With its awkward, cube-like body and a detachable barrel that wiggles slightly even after it's slotted into place, the Liberator looks more like a toy than one of the most controversial guns in the ...

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 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 ...

While the United States has always been awash in firearms, a widening threat will endanger our communities even further: 3D printed ghost guns. What was once the “iron pipeline,” the interstate ...

The jerky time lapse video showed a 3D printer making what could have been knock-off Lego blocks out of bright green plastic fibers. Police say that little Lego can turn a regular handgun into a fully ...

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 ...

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 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 ...