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3D-printed guns are on the rise in Australia. How can we prevent them being made?

  • Written by David Bright, Professor in Criminology, Deakin University
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Last week, police seized about 80 illegal firearms across Victoria. These included eight homemade firearms, four of which were “military-style weapons”, as well as two 3D printers.

This is the latest in a series of seizures of 3D-printed weapons in Australia:

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