UK demand for US gun produced by 3D printer

Thursday 09 May 2013 18:26 BST

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The blueprint for a gun that is produced by a 3D printer has been downloaded in Britain “a considerable” number of times since being posted online two days ago.

Defence Distributed, the design firm behind the first firearm made solely with 3D printer technology, managed to fire the weapon in Texas at the weekend and made the designs available online. They have been downloaded 100,000 times globally.

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