If 3D printing companies and government agencies hope to police the spread of dangerous or pirated digital shapes, their task is about to get much more complicated. Late last month Matthew ...

If gun control advocates hoped to prevent blueprints for the world's first fully 3D-printable gun from spreading online, that horse has now left the barn about a hundred thousand times. That's the ...

STL files are everywhere. When there’s something to 3D print, it’s probably going to be an STL. Which, as long as the model is good just as it is, is no trouble at all. But sooner or later there will ...

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A settlement between the Department of Justice and a gun rights activist Cody Wilson paves the way for downloadable firearms that can be produced with a 3D printer. When he's not battling bugs and ...

Facebook is blocking the sharing of blueprints for making 3D-printed guns, saying it is against its community standards — and amid a temporary nationwide restraining order against an organization that ...

Police are now tracing ghost guns by identifying microscopic toolmarks left by 3D printer hardware Thingiverse is using automation to block the upload of dangerous weapon blueprint files Lawmakers ...