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New York Bill Would Require a Criminal Background Check to Buy a 3D Printer

Supporters of the bill say it's necessary to thwart convicted felons who use 3D printers to develop untraceable "ghost guns."

Tech Policy Mack DeGeurin Oct 16

The U.S. Just Changed the Definition of Firearms to Account for Untraceable Ghost Guns

Manufacturers of gun assembly kits will be required to include traceable serial numbers and run federal background checks before selling their products.

Tech News Mack DeGeurin Aug 25

Biden Finally Cracks Down on Untraceable ‘Ghost Guns’

Around 20,000 guns without serial numbers were used in shootings last year.

Tech News Passant Rabie Apr 11

Firearm Enthusiasts Are Warming Up to Smart Guns

55% of gun owners and 39% of non-gun owners said they'd be comfortable using a gun utilizing the tech.

Tech News Mack DeGeurin Mar 8

Guns Have Overtaken Cars as Leading Cause of Traumatic Deaths in the U.S.

In 2018, more people died from bullets than in car crashes, a new study found.

Health Ed Cara Feb 22

Smart Guns Are Reportedly Coming to U.S. Stores This Year

After years of research and development, at least two major smart gun makers claim they are on track to release a commercial product this year.

Tech News Mack DeGeurin Jan 11

Gunshot Survivors Are Traumatized for Years, Study Finds

The findings of a new study involving gunshot survivors are unlikely to surprise you—but they aren’t any less depressing. It suggests that many survivors are left physically and mentally devastated by their experience, even years later. For their new work, published Wednesday in JAMA Surgery, the researchers conducted phone interviews with more than 180 gunshot survivors…

Health Ed Cara Nov 20

Survey Finds Nearly Everyone Wants More Gun Control, Including Gun Owners

Americans are in many ways in agreement when it comes to gun control, a new survey suggests. It found that a majority of Americans, gun owners included, support a wide range of gun-control policies, such as temporarily removing guns from people considered a danger to themselves or others and universal background checks for handgun purchases.…

Health Ed Cara Sep 9

The TSA Found an Average of 11 Guns a Day in Carry-On Bags Last Year

Americans broke a new record last year, but it’s nothing to write home about. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) found 4,239 firearms in carry-on luggage in 2018, breaking the previous record that was set in 2017. That’s an average of more than 11 guns per day. The number of guns found by TSA in 2018…

Tech News Matt Novak Feb 8

U.S. Gun Deaths Reached a Record High in 2017

The number of Americans who were killed by firearms in 2017 reached a record high, according to a recent CNN analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There were almost 40,000 gun-related deaths last year. The majority of these deaths were suicides. CNN looked at the CDC’s WONDER database, which pools…

Health Ed Cara Dec 17

3D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Resigns From Defense Distributed After Sexual Assault Charges

Cody Wilson, the self-identified “crypto-anarchist” CEO of 3D-printed gun organization Defense Distributed, has resigned following his arrest in Taiwan over charges of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl in Texas. Wilson is the activist behind Defense Distributed’s ongoing legal battle with the government over its plans to release free blueprints for small arms that can be…

Tech News Tom McKay Sep 25

Judge Extends Defense Distributed’s Ban on Publishing 3D-Printed Gun Plans Online

A U.S. district judge in Seattle extended a ban preventing Austin, Texas-based Defense Distributed, which designs and releases digital blueprints for small arms that can be produced by 3D printers and CNC-milling machines, from continuing to do so until a lawsuit by 19 states and the District of Columbia is resolved. In 2015, the Barack…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Aug 28

The Battle Over 3D-Printed Guns Is Getting Serious

Five years ago, a lot of people thought Cody Wilson was a wild-eyed fanatic. The New Yorker described his rhetoric about making blueprints for 3D-printed guns available to anyone on the internet as “divorced” “from any practical reality.” Yet here we are in 2018, and Wilson’s company, Defense Distributed, is still in the news being branded…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Aug 1

Facebook Will Stop Showing Ads for Gun Accessories to Kids

As of now, Facebook users under the age of 18 can be served advertisements for firearm holsters, flashlight-mounts, and silencers, and other gun accessories. But a new policy is supposed to but an end to that starting June 21. Facebook announced the new policy on Friday, explaining that this decision came during a regular reassessment…

Tech News Jennings Brown Jun 18

Over 150 Comics Stars Will Contribute to Image Comics’ Vegas Shooting Anthology

In the wake of what is now the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history last October, Image Comics has announced a bumper anthology of comics about the trauma of gun violence in America—and with it, contributors from some of the biggest artists and writers in the comics industry like Gail Simone, Neil Gaiman, Kelly…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Mar 27

The CDC May Finally Get Free Rein to Study Gun Violence

The government, after decades of resistance, is set to finally encourage the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study gun violence. And all it took was near constant mass shootings and the pressure of a federal shutdown. On Wednesday night, as reported by BuzzFeed News, two new provisions were added to a proposed bipartisan…

Tech News Ed Cara Mar 22

Florida State House Declares Porn Is a Health Risk, Assault Weapons Totally Fine Though

Legislators in Florida—where a gunman authorities later identified as Nikolas Cruz opened fire on the grounds of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County, Florida, killing at least 17 last week—have apparently decided that the threat they need to focus on right now is pornography. Per the Sun Sentinel, as surviving students from the…

Health Tom McKay Feb 20

It’s Becoming Frightfully Easy to Make Untraceable Guns at Home

Have a look at the gun above. It’s an M1911 pistol, the standard issue sidearm for the United States Armed Forces for nearly a century. The semi-automatic weapon can hold up to 11 rounds and fire as fast as one can pull the trigger. And that specific gun above, it was made with a machine…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Oct 2

This Trigger-Happy Glove Lets You Simulate Machine Gun Fire, But How Is It Legal?

The AutoGlove, scheduled to enter production next month, bills itself as a mechanism that allows for “full-auto fire without ATF approval, tax stamp or firearm modifications.” Powered by a battery pack that can be attached to a user’s arm or body, the device looks like a military-inspired Power Glove and is designed to fire a…

Gadgets Rhett Jones Aug 2

Google Data Says We’re Ready To Talk About Gun Control, But We Probably Won’t

The Wall Street Journal picked up a hope-inspiring dataset from Google showing a swift change in gun-related searching habits from before and after the San Bernardino shootings. It showed a massive spike for “gun control” searches (blue in the image above) related to “gun shop” searches (red). Yes, maybe we’re finally ready to get serious…

Tech News Darren Orf Dec 4

gun control

New York Bill Would Require a Criminal Background Check to Buy a 3D Printer

The U.S. Just Changed the Definition of Firearms to Account for Untraceable Ghost Guns

Biden Finally Cracks Down on Untraceable ‘Ghost Guns’

Firearm Enthusiasts Are Warming Up to Smart Guns

Guns Have Overtaken Cars as Leading Cause of Traumatic Deaths in the U.S.

Smart Guns Are Reportedly Coming to U.S. Stores This Year

Gunshot Survivors Are Traumatized for Years, Study Finds

Survey Finds Nearly Everyone Wants More Gun Control, Including Gun Owners

The TSA Found an Average of 11 Guns a Day in Carry-On Bags Last Year

U.S. Gun Deaths Reached a Record High in 2017

3D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Resigns From Defense Distributed After Sexual Assault Charges

Judge Extends Defense Distributed’s Ban on Publishing 3D-Printed Gun Plans Online

The Battle Over 3D-Printed Guns Is Getting Serious

Facebook Will Stop Showing Ads for Gun Accessories to Kids

Over 150 Comics Stars Will Contribute to Image Comics’ Vegas Shooting Anthology

The CDC May Finally Get Free Rein to Study Gun Violence

Florida State House Declares Porn Is a Health Risk, Assault Weapons Totally Fine Though

It’s Becoming Frightfully Easy to Make Untraceable Guns at Home

This Trigger-Happy Glove Lets You Simulate Machine Gun Fire, But How Is It Legal?

Google Data Says We’re Ready To Talk About Gun Control, But We Probably Won’t

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