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The Liberator: The First 3D-Printed Pistol

admin · 2026-03-16T23:03:40.955Z

Spent some time this week going down the rabbit hole on the Liberator — the plastic .380 that Cody Wilson printed in 2013 and somehow turned into a decade of federal litigation. Whether you think Wilson was a hero, a lunatic, or just a guy who was really good at poking bureaucracies with a stick, the legal fallout is worth understanding. It touched First Amendment territory that most gun owners don't think about until it matters. The Liberator was less a weapon than a provocation -- a physic...

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The Liberator: The First 3D-Printed Pistol

On May 3, 2013, a company called Defense Distributed announced it had done something no one had done before: built a functional, single-shot pistol almost entirely from plastic parts produced on a consumer-grade 3D printer. They called it the Liberat

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