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Jul 25

3D-printed rifle, dubbed ‘The Grizzly,’ fires its first shot

Screenshot from a video of a 3D-printed rifle firing its first round.

(Credit: Screenshot by Dara Kerr/CNET)

It appears that spinoffs of the well-known 3D-printed Liberator handgun have already begun.

In a new YouTube video (see below), a user that goes by the name ThreeD Ukulele claims to have designed and 3D-printed a single shot .22-caliber rifle.

Dubbing the gun “The Grizzly,” ThreeD Ukulele says he followed the designs of the Liberator by incorporating coiled mainsprings and keeping the gun entirely plastic except for the 1″ metal roofing nail. He says the rifle was printed on a Stratasys Dimension 1200es 3D-printer.

The video shows the white plastic rifle clamped to an outdoor table. The person operating the gun has a string attached to the trigger; he steps back, pulls the string, and fires the gun.

“The barrel split along both sides and the receiver split along the top,” the video says, “but it did fire the round.”

The Liberator 3D-printed handgun, made by Defense Distributed, has gotten a lot of press over the past few months. The Liberator debuted in May as the world’s first 3D-printed gun. It is capable of firing standard handgun rounds and is made entirely of plastic, e… [Read more]