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A weapon a 3D printer output achieved for the first time, shooting .380 caliber bullets . With the name ‘Liberator’ , it is a weapon design ‘amateur’ and made almost entirely of plastic, thanks to a Stratasys Dimension SST 3D printer second hand cost just $ 8,000 (about 6,000 euros).

account to Forbes magazine, which published this weekend a report on its creator, Cody Wilson , a law student at Texas developer, at 25 years old, of a group called Defense Distributed , intended to create a weapon that everyone could make using only a 3D printer.

16 pieces that make this weapon 15 are made of plastic with the printer above, which works by adding molten polymer strands to accurately produce solid objects, as is adding a traditional printer ink to a page. The only metal part is the hammer of the gun.

The design is inspired by another weapon also called ‘Liberator’, manufactured during World War II by the U.S. to send to the pockets of resistance in occupied Europe.

Thus, on Wednesday performed the first successful test. And with it has raised an interesting debate on gun control inside and outside the U.S., the demonstration that can ‘print’ a gun simply downloading plans and using a 3D printer , these devices each increasingly widespread, popular and affordable.

Meanwhile, Wilson denies that drives any armed revolt in the U.S.; only seeks to demonstrate how technology can make laws surrounding citizens and create their own sovereign space, until governments become increasingly irrelevant.

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Parts pistora ‘Liberator’.