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

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:
in 2016, Queensland police discovered a 3D printer in a raid on a...
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