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Trump administration sets into motion return of online 3D gun blueprints

An Austin man posted blueprints for the world's first fully 3D-printed gun online in 2013. They've been blocked from the internet twice.

Gun parts at Defense Distributed, a Texas-based company developing and publishing open source gun designs for 3-D printing and manufacture, surround a copy of The Liberator, a 3D printed plastic gun. The company is being sued to keep its plans for plastic guns off the internet.

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