3D-Printed Gun Hits Fundraising Goal

This week, the Wiki Weapon Project, an initiative that aims to design and build the world’s first entirely 3D-printable handgun, met its goal of raising $20,000 from Internet donors, according to the group’s spokesperson, University of Texas law student Cody Wilson. That’s about ten times the amount the project had managed to raise through the crowdsourced fundraising site Indiegogo when the donation platform summarily booted the printable gun project from its website last month and refunded the group’s pool of contributions to donors.

“I think it shows they really believe in a future where the gun is inalienable…a kind of faith in American individualism, the sovereignty of the individual,” said Wilson.

With its current pot, Wilson says the group will be able to rent a UPrint SE Plus printer, buy a Lenovo workstation for software modeling as well as the RepRap 3D printer it hopes to adapt its model to work for, and still have plenty of funds to offer between $3,000 and $5,000 in its design competition.

Read more at Forbes.