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Print-your-own gun debate ignores how the US government long provided and regulated firearms

  • Written by Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, Assistant Professor of History, Miami University
U.S. approval of making blueprints for 3D-printed guns available online has sparked an uproar.AP Photo/Matthew Daly

The current debate over a Texas company’s “right” to allow anyone to download blueprints to its 3D-printed guns is following the same well-trodden terrain as every firearms fight for the past few decades: differing...

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