For the last hour, in a backroom of a gun range in Arabi, Louisiana, I’ve been building Luigi Mangione’s gun. Well, not his, in the literal sense. The not-quite-finished firearm in my hands is very ...
For decades, weapons manufacturing has been the domain of arms industry heavyweights: Glock, Sig Sauer, Remington, Sturm, Ruger & Co. Making a gun from scratch at home required thousands of dollars of ...
A certain weapon is under a national spotlight for its potential involvement in a high-profile murder. A suspect was recently arrested in the shooting death of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson.
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 ...
Often called “ghost guns” because they can be hard to trace, these firearms can be either partially or completely made with components that have been produced in metal or plastic on commercially ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Does any firearm announce its ideology as explicitly—and profanely—as the FGC-9 semiautomatic? The “9” refers, in millimeters, to the diameter of its bullets, but the “FGC” stands for “F--- gun ...
State Rep. Melissa Shusterman, D-157th Dist., plans to introduce a bill to regulate the use of 3D-printed firearms, which are a form of “ghost guns,” to the Pennsylvania Legislature in the upcoming ...
At long last, someone other than Defense Distributed has taken the group's 3D-printable design and turned it into a working firearm and fired it. But, and I cannot emphasize this enough, this gun is ...