3D printed guns are a hot-button issue in the additive manufacturing industry. Recent interest has been driven by Chicago’s lawsuit against Glock and President Biden’s creation of a new Task Force to …
3D printing is a gimmick, a sub $10k metal 3D printer, and Burning Man: Old News
3D Printing Industry has over a decade of reporting behind us; the daily news is focused on the present and, periodically, the future. Once in a while, it may be interesting to look at the past.…
3D Printing Industry Review of the Year August 2018
The month of August welcomed various medical innovations within the 3D printing industry. The automotive and aerospace sector also further integrated additive manufacturing through Bugatti’s latest su…
3D Printing Industry Review of the Year July 2018
The month of July saw a plethora of partnerships and announcements from the Farnborough International Airshow as well as an abundance of funding for 3D printing startups in New Zealand. Furthermore, t…
U.S. House of Representatives submits 3D Firearms Prohibition Act to congress
In the wake of the 3D printed gun debacle which reached its fever pitch in August 2018, U.S. Representative Frank Joseph Pallone Jr. has submitted a bill seeking to prohibit the digital, and physical,…
Facebook bans 3D printed guns in news feed, messenger and Instagram
Despite Cody Wilson’s assertions, the debate over 3D printed guns is not over yet. Last week, social media giant Facebook became the latest organization to weigh-in on the discussion in an updat…
Unpacking America’s downloadable 3D printed guns
Today is the day that Defense Distributed’s 3D printable gun models were due to go online. In case you missed it, on 10 July 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice decided to overturn a ban on the…
U.S. Government lifts ban on Cody Wilson’s 3D printed guns, Senvol joins armaments consortium
In a seismic decision from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and U.S. Department of State (DOS), Cody Wilson’s open-source 3D printed firearm file sharing site Defense Distributed is no longe…