Illegal home-built guns are bringing libertarianism to the world. That's what the good people at The New York Times say. DIY firearms are also helping rebels fight oppressive regimes and, as is ...

Four days after the deadly school shooting in Newtown, Conn., Cody Wilson was testing out the latest version of a high-tech 3-D printer he helped design. Its sole purpose: to make it fast and easy to ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. A few years ago, just before I first fired an AK-47 that I had built, I worried that ...

The long-simmering debate over 3D-printed guns boiled over again this week, but it’s been clear for a while that something was going to happen. In June, 3D-gun-printing pioneer Cody Wilson and his ...

The home page of Defense Distributed’s website has set a date for when “the age of the downloadable gun formally begins”: Aug. 1. That’s when the Austin, Texas company plans once again to post ...

Cody Wilson is a crypto-anarchist, a gun rights activist, and the founder of Defense Distributed, a nonprofit venture aimed squarely at the heart of the gun control movement. Wilson’s signature ...