New York passes bill prohibiting 3D printers from producing firearms, but the standards on how to do so could take years to ...

Proponents have called the law a necessary step to address gun violence, but critics say the requirements aren't tenable and threaten free expression.

California's Assembly has passed AB 2047, the California Firearm Printing Prevention Act, sending the amended bill to the ...

1 June 2026 | Peace and Security Years after conflicts fade from the headlines, the weapons used to fight them often continue ...

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 ...

A growing online gun rights movement known as "3D2A," and the accessibility of 3D printers, have sparked an explosive growth of ghost guns in New York City — and could soon spread across the nation, ...

A police investigation has uncovered a large cache of weapons in the national capital's suburbs, less than a kilometre from ...

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 ...

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. – In the basement research lab of the agency that regulates America's firearms, two dozen 3D printers hummed, stringing thermoplastic filament into computer-designed patterns that ...

This story was originally published by The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence. Subscribe to its newsletters. For decades, weapons manufacturing has been the domain of arms industry ...

TL;DR: A small group of forensic researchers is challenging the belief that 3D-printed ghost guns – unserialized firearms built at home – are completely untraceable. Their work offers a glimmer of ...