3-D Printed Gun's Blueprints Downloaded 100,000 Times Already

Yeah, good luck with that ban

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 number of downloads of the 3D-printable file for the so-called "Liberator" gun that the high-tech gunsmithing group Defense Distributed has seen in just the last two days, a member of the group tells me. The gun's CAD files have been ten times more popular than any component the group has previously made available, parts that have included the body of an AR-15 and the magazine for an AK-47."This has definitely been our most well-received download," says Haroon Khalid, a developer working with Defense Distributed. "I don't think any of us predicted it would be this much."

Comments

[UnCivilServant]

Now we need to put those printers to work until we've made more new liberators than the original.

[darius404]

The most downloads of Defense Distributed's "Liberator," surprisingly, haven't come from the U.S., but from Spain, according to Khalid's count.

I guess we were a little too early in saying the Liberator would never be used in Europe.