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Cody Wilson, founder of Defense Distributed, has announced that while his site will comply with federal orders to halt internationally publishing CAD files of firearms on his website, such compliance ...

The group Defense Distributed is now selling the 3D gun files in an attempt to work around the ban issued by a federal judge. Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The blueprint files to print your own 3D ...

Defense Distributed has begun selling blueprints for guns that can be 3D printed at home in what may be considered circumvention of a court injunction aimed at preventing the spread of the designs.

The company at the center of a lawsuit over 3D-printable guns will send plans directly to customers, its founder said Tuesday. That comes a day after a federal judge blocked the State Department from ...

In 2012, Defense Distributed, a non-profit organization, began posting online free downloads of computer files — codes — that would enable users to easily produce their own firearms and firearm ...

The last major action in Washington came toward the end of 2018 when the defendants filed a motion to pause everything for four months while the State Department considered new rules that it argued ...

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