
Defense Distributed
American non-profit developing digital firearm schematics

American non-profit developing digital firearm schematics
Defense Distributed is an online, open-source hardware and software organization that develops digital schematics for firearms as CAD files that may be downloaded from the Internet and used in 3D printing or CNC milling applications. Its purpose is to support and defend the popular production of homemade firearms. The company is best known for developing and releasing the files for the Liberator, the world's first completely 3D printed gun. When Defense Distributed first published these printable STL files in 2013, the United States Department of State demanded they be removed from the Internet, citing a violation of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. In 2015, Defense Distributed, joined by the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), filed Defense Distributed v. U.S. Dept. of State in the Western District of Texas, leading the United States to offer a settlement in 2018. Since July 2018, Defense Distributed has released its files to the public domain at DEFCAD while federal courts...
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