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Liberator (gun)
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Main page For the World War II single shot pistol, see FP-45 Liberator. For the shotgun, see Winchester Liberator.
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The Liberator is a physible, 3D-printable single shot handgun, the first such printable firearm design made widely
Current events Liberator .380
[2][3][4]
Random article available online. The open source firm Defense Distributed designed the gun and released the plans on the Internet
About Wikipedia on May 6, 2013. The plans were downloaded over 100,000 times in the two days before the United States Department of
Contact us State demanded that Defense Distributed retract the plans.[1]
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The plans for the gun remain hosted across the Internet and are available at file sharing websites like The Pirate Bay[5][6]
Contribute and GitHub.[7]
Help On July 19, 2018 the United States Department of Justice reached a settlement with Defense Distributed, allowing the sale
Learn to edit of plans for 3D-printed firearms online, beginning August 1, 2018.[8]
Community portal
Recent changes On July 31, 2018 President of the United States Donald Trump posted on Twitter about the decision to allow the online Type Single-shot pistol
Upload file publication of the Liberator's files: “I am looking into 3-D Plastic Guns being sold to the public. Already spoke to NRA, Place of origin  United States
doesn’t seem to make much sense!”[9] Production history
Tools
Designer Defense Distributed
What links here On the same day the tweet was posted, a federal judge stopped the release of blueprints to make the Liberator due to it
Designed April 2013[citation needed]
Related changes being an untraceable and undetectable 3D-printed plastic gun, citing safety concerns.[10]
Produced 2013–present[1]
Special pages
Permanent link Contents [hide] Specifications
Page information 1 Namesake and concept Length 216 mm (8.5 in)
Cite this page 2 Withdrawal of plans and The Pirate Bay hosting Barrel length 64 mm (2.5 in)
Wikidata item Height 160 mm (6.3 in)
3 Reception

Print/export 4 Usage history

Cartridge .380 ACP
Download as PDF
5 See also
Action Single-shot
Printable version 6 References
7 External links
In other projects
Wikimedia Commons
Namesake and concept [ edit ]
Languages
Español The pistol is named after the FP-45 Liberator, a single-shot pistol that George Hyde designed and that the Inland Manufacturing Division of the General Motors Corporation
日本語 mass-produced for the United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in World War II. The OSS intended to air drop the gun into occupied Europe for resistance forces to
Русский use.[11][12][13] A project of the OSS, it is thought the Liberator was equally purposed as a tool of psychological warfare.[11] Occupying forces in Europe would have to weigh
Suomi evidence of distributed pistols as a factor in planning against civilian resistance, which would complicate their strategy and affect morale. However, though used in France,
Tiếng Việt
there is little proof that the pistols were ever dropped into occupied Europe in large quantities.[11]
Edit links
The physible Liberator's release to the Internet can be understood as Defense Distributed's attempt to more successfully execute the historical psychological operation, and as
a symbolic act supporting resistance to world governments.[13][14]

Withdrawal of plans and The Pirate Bay hosting [ edit ]

Days after their publication, the United States Department of State's Office of Defense Trade Controls issued a letter to Defense
Distributed demanding that it retract the Liberator plans from public availability.[15] The State Department justified this demand by
asserting the right to regulate the flow of technical data related to arms, and its role in enforcing the Arms Export Control Act of 1976.

However, soon thereafter the design appeared on The Pirate Bay (TPB), which publicly stated its defense of the information. Quoted
on TorrentFreak: "TPB has for close to 10 years been operating without taking down one single torrent due to pressure from the
outside. And it will never start doing that."[6]

The site would go on to issue a statement on its Facebook page:

Digital Liberator pistol by Defense

Distributed So apparently there are some 3D prints of guns in the physibles section at TPB. Prints that the US government now claim
ownership of. Our position is, as always, to not delete any torrents as long as its contents are as stated in the torrents
description. Printable guns [are] a very serious matter that will be up for debate for a long time from now. We don't
condone gun violence. We believe that the world needs less guns, not more of them. We believe however that these
prints will stay on the internets regardless of blocks and censorship, since that's how the internets works. If there's a
lunatic out there who wants to print guns to kill people, he or she will do it. With or without TPB. Better to have these prints
out in the open internets (TPB) and up for peer review (the comment threads), than semi hidden in the darker parts of the
internet.

— The Pirate Bay, May 10, 2013

Reception [ edit ]

Original copies of the Liberator have been permanently acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum,[16][17][18] and a copy of the gun is on display at London's Science Museum.

Writing in The Register, Lewis Page ridiculed the Liberator, stating "it isn't any more a gun than any other very short piece of plastic pipe is a "gun"", and comparing it with a
1950s zip gun.[19]

Usage history [ edit ]

In May 2013, Finnish Yle TV2 current affairs programme Ajankohtainen kakkonen produced a Liberator handgun under the supervision
of a licensed gunsmith and fired it under controlled conditions. During the experiment, the weapon shattered.[20][21] It was later found
that an error was made concerning the settings of the 3D printer.

Israeli Channel 10 reporters built and tested a Liberator with a 9 mm cartridge, successfully hitting a target at a distance of several
meters. On June 24, 2013, the reporters smuggled the gun (without barrel and ammunition) into the Israeli house of parliament, coming
within a short distance of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.[22]
ATF test of 3-D printed firearm
A Japanese man built five copies of the Liberator, and on or about April 12, 2014, he uploaded video evidence of his possession of the using ABS material
weapons to the internet. Authorities arrested him on May 8, 2014, and found that at least two of the copies possessed lethal power.[23]
Cody Wilson, a founder of Defense Distributed, stated on the incident that the man "performed his work in the open, without suspicion,
fear or dishonor".[24]

See also [ edit ]

List of notable 3D printed weapons and parts

References [ edit ] ATF test of 3-D printed firearm

using VisiJet material
1. ^ a b Greenberg, Andy. "3D-Printed Gun's Blueprints Downloaded 14. ^ Slowik, Max. "3D Printing Community Updates Liberator with
100,000 Times In Two Days (With Some Help From Kim Rifle, Pepperbox and Glock-Powered 'Shuty-9′" . Guns.com.
Dotcom)" . Forbes. Retrieved 13 May 2013. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
2. ^ "US government orders removal of Defcad 3D-gun designs" . 15. ^ Greenberg, Andy. "State Department Demands Takedown Of
BBC News. Retrieved 13 May 2013. 3D-Printable Gun Files For Possible Export Control Violations" .
3. ^ Biggs, John. "What You Need To Know About The Liberator 3D- Forbes. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
Printed Pistol" . TechCrunch. Retrieved 13 May 2013. 16. ^ "V&A museum acquires first 3D-printed gun" . dezeen.
4. ^ Hutchinson, Lee. "The first entirely 3D-printed handgun is September 15, 2013. Retrieved December 31, 2013.
here" . Ars Technica. Retrieved 13 May 2013. 17. ^ "V&A museum to display printed gun" . BBC Online.
5. ^ "Defiant Pirate Bay to continue hosting banned 3D printer gun September 15, 2013. Retrieved December 31, 2013.
designs" . RT.com. 10 May 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2013. 18. ^ Lee, Felicia (September 16, 2013). "3-D Printed Gun Goes on
6. ^ a b Ernesto. "Pirate Bay Takes Over Distribution of Censored 3D Display at London Museum" . The New York Times. Retrieved
Printable Gun" . TorrentFreak. Retrieved 13 May 2013. December 31, 2013.

7. ^ "The 3D printed gun scare never actualized" . 27 January 19. ^ Page, Lewis (May 10, 2013). " 'Liberator': Proof that you CAN'T
2017. Retrieved February 25, 2018. make a working gun in a 3D printer" . The Register. Retrieved
12 July 2017.
8. ^ Uria, Daniel. "Justice Department settlement allows sale of 3-D
printed gun plans" . Retrieved July 20, 2018. 20. ^ Richt, Jyrki (2013-05-14). "Toimiko 3D-pistooli? Katso video"

9. ^ "Trump queries 3D printed guns – which administration helped (in Finnish). Yle Uutiset. Retrieved 2015-09-19.

make available to public" . 21. ^ Richt, Jyrki (2013-05-15). " 'Liberator' 3D-printed handgun fails

10. ^ "Judge blocks the release of blueprints for 3D-printed guns" . after single shot in Finnish test" . Yle Uutiset. Retrieved

CNBC. 1 August 2018. Retrieved 4 August 2018. 2015-09-19.

11. ^ a b c Hagan, Ralph (1996). The Liberator Pistol. Target Sales. 22. ^ ‫ אקדח יורה מטרים ספורים מראש הממשלה‬:10 ‫תחקיר חדשות‬ .

ISBN 978-0965449632. Retrieved 2013-07-03.

23. ^ "Man busted for possessing handguns made with 3-D printer" .
12. ^ Melton, H. (1991). OSS Special Weapons & Equipment. Sterling
Retrieved 2014-05-09.
Pub Co Inc. ISBN 978-0806982380.
13. ^ a b Greenberg, Andy. "Meet The 'Liberator': Test-Firing The 24. ^ "WikiWep DevBlog" . Retrieved 2014-05-09.

World's First Fully 3D-Printed Gun" . Forbes. Retrieved 13 May

2013.

External links [ edit ]

Defense Distributed's official website Wikimedia Commons has

DEFCAD media related to Defense
Distributed.
The Wiki Weapon development blog
Defcad IRC channel twitter account Wikisource has several
original texts related to:
Fosscad Liberator repository Defense Distributed

Anarchism portal Law portal Freedom of speech portal Internet portal Libertarianism portal United States portal War portal

Categories: Personal weapons Handguns 3D printed firearms Weapons and ammunition introduced in 2013 Fused filament fabrication

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