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Marc Newson designs a shotgun for Beretta
News: Marc Newson, the industrial designer who joined Apple in September, is working with Italian gun brand Beretta to launch a new version of the 486 Parallelo hunting shotgun next month (original...
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Marc Newson's "streamlined" 486 shotgun unveiled by Beretta
Italian firearms brand Beretta has revealed Marc Newson's reinterpretation of the traditional side-by-side shotgun (+ slideshow). Unveiled at an event in London last night, the 486 shotgun by Marc...
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3D-printed weapons found during Australian police raid
News: Australian police have seized weapons created on a 3D printer while raiding a property in Gold Coast, Queensland. The weapons found at the residence in the city's Mudgeeraba suburb include a set...
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The dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Texas has resigned over a new state law that will allow students to carry guns on campus. Frederick "Fritz" Steiner will leave the Austin...
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Apple replaces its gun with a water pistol in latest emoji update
Apple is swapping its emoji of a revolver for a brightly coloured water pistol in what appears to be a show of opposition to gun violence. The technology giant's move to swap the deadly weapon for a...
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First 3D-printed gun fired
News: the world's first 3D-printed plastic gun has been successfully fired in Texas, USA. The handgun, named The Liberator, was assembled from separate printed components made from ABS plastic, with...
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US government blocks downloads of 3D-printed gun
News: blueprints for the world's first 3D-printed gun have been taken offline at the request of the US government. Defense Distributed, the Texas-based group that developed the weapon, stated on...
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V&A museum acquires first 3D-printed gun
London Design Festival 2013: London's V&A Museum has added the world's first 3D-printed gun to its permanent collection and will exhibit it along with four other newly acquired design objects...
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"Can these parts go together and kill someone? The answer is yes."
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our next movie from the UK capital, senior curator at the V&A Kieran Long explains why the London museum has controversially acquired the world's first 3D-printed...
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"3D-printed gun parts" seized by police in Manchester
News: police have seized parts of a suspected 3D-printed gun during a raid on a property in Greater Manchester, England. In what is thought to be the first such discovery, Greater Manchester Police...
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Doubts emerge over police "first ever 3D gun" claims
News: Greater Manchester Police have issued a new statement following earlier claims that they had seized "component parts for what could be the UK's first ever 3D gun" after the 3D-printing community...
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World’s first 3D-printed metal gun successfully fired
News: an American company has built and successfully fired the world's first metal 3D-printed gun. American additive manufacturing firm Solid Concepts successfully fired 50 rounds using the handgun,...
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3D-printed guns cause US to review prohibition of plastic firearms
News: American lawmakers are rushing to amend a law banning firearms made entirely of plastic ahead of its expiration on Monday, amid fears that the spread of 3D-printing makes it easier to produce...
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Eindhoven graduate designs a gun for firing her tears
After an altercation with a tutor, Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Yi-Fei Chen created this visual metaphor to show her personal struggle with speaking her mind. Recently on display at Dutch Design...
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Yi-Fei Chen designs a gun that collects tears and uses them as bullets
One-minute movie: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Yi-Fei Chen has designed a gun that collects tears, freezes them and then fires them as bullets, in response to a altercation with a tutor. Find out...
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Shepard Fairey creates posters to protest school gun violence
American designer Shepard Fairey has produced a pair of posters protesting gun violence in US schools, coinciding with nationwide demonstrations. Fairey released the posters to be used during walkouts...
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China claims to have developed long-range laser gun that can burn flesh
Researchers from China's Academy of Sciences claim to have developed a stealth laser weapon capable of burning targets nearly a kilometre away. Renderings of the ZKZM-500 laser assault rifle appeared...
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Downloadable files for 3D-printed guns to be made publicly accessible
Americans will be able to 3D-print their own guns next month, after a court ruled that blueprints for printable firearms could be made available online again. But their creator and distributor says...
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Yves Béhar responds to Pittsburgh synagogue shooting with Lies Cost Lives...
Designer Yves Béhar has created this graphic in the wake of the mass-shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue to warn against rising anti-semitism in the US, which he blames on president Donald Trump's...
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"Attempts to stop terrorism at the fringes of architecture are becoming...
Architects and designers can't design ways to protect mass terror attacks in America's public spaces, but they should join the fight to eliminate the problem at its cause, argues Aaron Betsky. When you...
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