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Printed Gun Only Lasts Six Rounds

A group of 3-D printing gunsmiths have taken another step toward making a gun you can download off the internet. This weekend, the desktop weaponeers took a partially printed rifle out to test how long its plastic parts survived spewing bullets. The result? Six rounds until it snapped apart.

But that was also the point, the group's founder tells Danger Room. "We knew it would break, probably," says Cody Wilson, who heads the Wiki Weapon project. "But I don't think we thought it'd break within six [rounds]. We thought it'd break within 20."

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