So the [Fresh-Prints-of-3D ... guns. Using Sketchup he designed a side loading hopper adapter, a fixed stock, a magazine adapter, various brackets, and even a bipod fore-grip. He then printed ...

For as long as they’ve been banded about, 3D printers were regarded as the path to a new economy, a method of distributed manufacturing, and a revolution for the current consumer culture.

but underscored the burgeoning 3D-printed variety. With those, DIY-gunmakers download a design file, and feed it into a machine that prints layers of plastic to make some components of a gun.