For decades, America's detectives have made breakthroughs in crime using gun traces. A homicide investigator typically uses ballistics and serial numbers of weapons checked via a vast network of gun ...

Proposed bills in New York and elsewhere threaten makers, Adafruit says State and federal lawmakers have stepped up their efforts to prevent the creation of 3D printed guns. But Adafruit, a maker of ...

How easy has it become for someone to build a deadly, and untraceable weapon? With nothing more than a 3D printer and parts ordered online, WIRED Senior Writer Andy Greenberg remade the exact same gun ...

The world’s biggest social media sites are home to thousands of 2nd Amendment devotees who believe anyone should be able to use a 3D printer to build their own gun. Meta, Discord and the DOJ are ...

A special agent with the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office demonstrates how to assemble a ghost gun. Built in about an hour, the weapon was fully functional. (NBC News) Police investigating the ...

Does any firearm announce its ideology as explicitly—and profanely—as the FGC-9 semiautomatic? The “9” refers, in millimeters, to the diameter of its bullets, but the “FGC” stands for “F--- gun ...

For the last hour, in a backroom of a gun range in Arabi, Louisiana, I’ve been building Luigi Mangione’s gun. Well, not his, in the literal sense. The not-quite-finished firearm in my hands is very ...

Once police released details on the arrest of the suspected shooter of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, internet sleuths identified the weapon used as a Chairmanwon V1, a version of a popular ...

This story was originally published by The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence. Subscribe to its newsletters. For decades, weapons manufacturing has been the domain of arms industry ...

As police departments around the country report a surge in 3D-printed firearms turning up at crime scenes, gun safety advocates and law enforcement officials are warning that a new generation of ...

Anna Schecter is the senior coordinating producer for CBS News and Stations' Crime and Public Safety Unit, based in New York. A growing online gun rights movement known as "3D2A," and the ...

It’s a truism at this point to say that Americans own a lot of guns. Case in point: This week, a fire chief in rural Alabama stopped to help a driver who had just hit a deer. The two men walked up the ...