The 'iron pipeline' of illegal guns has become the 'kitchen table pipeline' of 3D printed plastic weapons, writes Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.

A special agent with the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office demonstrates how to assemble a ghost gun. Built in about an hour, the weapon was fully functional. (NBC News) Police investigating the ...

Kathy Hochul plans to introduce a proposal that would require all 3D printers sold in the state to include software that ...

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 ...

It’s a truism at this point to say that Americans own a lot of guns. Case in point: This week, a fire chief in rural Alabama stopped to help a driver who had just hit a deer. The two men walked up the ...

Once police released details on the arrest of the suspected shooter of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, internet sleuths identified the weapon used as a Chairmanwon V1, a version of a popular ...

On today’s episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss how WIRED was able to legally 3D-print the same gun allegedly used by Luigi Mangione, and where US law stands on the technology. You can always listen ...

Earlier this year, Bragg wrote to 3D printing companies, asking them to ensure their services can’t be used to create firearms. On Saturday, Bragg announced that one such company, Thingiverse, would ...

Anna Schecter is the senior coordinating producer for CBS News and Stations' Crime and Public Safety Unit, based in New York. A growing online gun rights movement known as "3D2A," and the ...

The goal is to "attack the manufacture" of these kinds of weapons. New York will try to make it a crime to print a gun at home. Lawmakers are responding to a surge in gun crimes committed with ...

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 ...