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U of T lab’s 3D printer gun raises disturbing questions

By July 4, 2013March 24th, 2020Newswires

Patterned after the Liberator — a gun design created in the U.S. on a 3D printer — the firearm would be breaking Canadian law if not altered.

By Eric Andrew-Gee

Daniel Southwick has a gun. It looks like a toy. It’s not.

It seems that he’s the first person in Canada to make a gun with a 3D printer. It’s under lock and key at his University of Toronto lab, on the seventh floor of Robarts Library.

The gun can’t shoot bullets — not yet — but only because Southwick doesn’t want it to.

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