Who Will Hold The Rights to the 3D Printed Gun?

     Who will hold the rights to the world's first 3D printed gun? It's a question that seems to have a different answer every day the past few weeks. The gun, entitled The Liberator, began as the project of engineer Cody Wilson. It is made almost entirely out of plastic, and it has the potential to be lethal.

     Unsurprisingly, there was an immediate question of the legality of not only owning The Liberator, but owning the plans to print the gun. The blueprints were taken down from their official host last week by order of the federal government. However, they were picked up by the ever-defiant Pirate Bay, and have been made available through the popular torrent site. As of today, Mega owner, Kim Dotcom, has ordered the files to be removed from any of his servers.
    As if the issue of a gun made of plastic is not enough of an issue (think metal detectors), the distribution of the blueprints is it's own problem. This is an issue that is setting the standards for what 3D printing will truly be. This is a hot topic to watch, as 3D printing will most certainly be available to us in the near future.