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Video: First 3D-printed gun fired - Telegraph
Instructions for making The Liberator, a plastic handgun that could escape detection by conventional airport security, were today made freely available to download from the internet by anti-government activists in the US.
It was created by a group in Texas that aims to make "WikiWeapons" that can be reproduced with a home computer and a $1,000 (£644) 3D printer that uses heated plastics instead of ink.
"It's a demonstration that technology will allow access to things that governments would otherwise say that you shouldn't have access to," Cody Wilson, the leader of Defense Distributed, told The Daily Telegraph.
"Things that there are legitimate demands for will be available," said Mr Wilson, 25, who is described as a free-market anarchist. "That's the point we want to make."
Video footage showed Mr Wilson successfully test firing the gun at a target.