Ghost Gunner 3-S and the Optics Cut Library 2.0, Part 1

Defense Distributed has long been a lightning rod for gun owners and gun banners alike. Between the Ghost Gunner series of CNC mills bringing professional quality finishing of 80% receivers, to the DefCad library of 3d printable guns and parts, Defense Distributed is pushing the bounds of what’s possible, and conceivable. Now, Defense Distributed has … Read more

Hand in Hand: A Second Amendment Group Fights to Defend First Amendment Rights

Attorneys representing the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and Defense Distributed have filed an appellants’ brief in their long-running First Amendment challenge of the New Jersey statute which prohibits the publication of computer files containing digital firearms information. Defense Distributed, according to their website, is the first private defense contractor in service of the general public. … Read more

Ghost Gunner 3 CNC Mill Now Supports AK-47 and AK-74 80% Receivers

When Defense Distributed launched their faster, larger, more powerful Ghost Gunner 3 mill they noted it is powerful enough to cut steel. At that point it was only a matter of time before AK-47 receivers were coming off the GG3, and that time is now. In the Rumble-hosted video above, Stephen from Defense Distributed gives … Read more

With ‘Ghost Gun’ Suit, Brady Works to Make Selling Gun Parts Illegal

The campaign to make it difficult or impossible to buy gun parts over the internet is well under way. Outlawing online gun part sales one of the planks of Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.’s gun control plan. A big part of that push is the recent flurry of the Brady bunch’s and other lawsuits against makers … Read more

Federal Ban Bill Would Take Home Gun Manufacturing Back To The Stone Age

Back in May, one of the Senate’s most dedicated anti-gun members, Connecticut’s Richard Blumenthal introduced S.3743, the Untraceable Firearms Act of 2020. The target, of course, is those scary objects of gun-grabbers nightmares…ghost guns. Blumenthal’s bill would, among other things, ban the possession of programmable manufacturing devices like CNC mills and 3D additive printers…unless you’re … Read more

‘Ghost Gun’ Ban: Senate’s New, ‘Improved’ Untraceable Firearms Act Would Ban All Homemade Guns

Unofficial Congressional Civilian Disarmament Caucus co-chairmen Senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal (both D-CT) have introduced the as yet un-numbered Untraceable Firearms Act of 2020. At first glance, it resembles Rep. David Cicilline‘s [D-RI-1] H.R.3553 – Untraceable Firearms Act of 2019, which has been stalled in the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security since … Read more

The Export Munitions List ‘Victory’: A Different Perspective

The National Shooting Sports Foundation declared victory in defeating a group of Attorneys General who challenged to Trump administration’s relaxing of ITAR export rules. While that’s well and good for the firearm’s industry, they did it by throwing gun owners and hobbyists under the bus. The NSSF protected their commercial exports by sacrificing the more … Read more

Are 80% Frames, 3D Printing, and the Ghost Gunner Now Obsolete?

The Bakersfield Police Department is reporting that they arrested a felony parolee who was “in possession of an airsoft gun that had been converted to fire .357-caliber ammunition and had six live rounds of live ammunition” One more time…an airsoft handgun…converted to fire .357 ammo. From the police image above, that appears to be this … Read more

Defense Distributed’s Ghost Gunner Now Making GLOCK 19 Frames

There’s a new product that you’re helping to launch? We’ve got our latest platform added to Ghost Gunner: a Glock 19–compatible frame able to be made [into a working gun] in 30 minutes. People have been waiting a long time for that. It’s the first time we’ve done a polymer frame rather than an aluminum … Read more