The Anonymous World of 3d-Printed Guns
Luigi Mangione has been charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The high-profile case has thrust not only “ghost guns,” which have no identifying serial number, into the national debate, but underscored the burgeoning 3D-printed variety.
With those, DIY-gunmakers download a design file, and feed it into a machine that prints layers of plastic to make some components of a gun. Someone has to create and refine those design files to make the resulting guns function better and fit comfortably in a shooter’s hand.
