Bitcoin-backed 'Wiki Weapon' plans go dark
A Texas nonprofit that garnered worldwide media attention for producing the first 3D printed gun -- and raised funds in bitcoins to help pay for the project -- has removed the blueprints for the weapon from its website. Twenty-five-year-old University of Texas law student Cody Wilson runs a company called Defense Distributed, which he calls "Home of the Wiki Weapon Project." Earlier this week, the company posted files with details on how to print a weapon called "the Liberator" at its DEFCAD site. On Thursday, however, those files were "removed from public access at the request of the US....
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