Police struggles to track down the makers of illegal 3D-printed guns. But a new forensic chemistry method can help.
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With gun control laws being rewritten, New Zealand has the opportunity to learn from other countries to better combat computer-aided weapons manufacture.
The use of 3D-printed guns in criminal and violent activities is likely to continue to increase. And governments and police will continue to have trouble regulating them.
Rajan Basra explains the backstory to the FGC-9, the world’s most popular 3D printed gun - and his search for its anonymous creator. Listen on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Gun sales have risen in recent years. An expert explains who and what is driving this trend and how it’s affecting Americans.
A scholar of untraceable firearms explains what they are and why President Joe Biden’s administration is seeking to restrict their manufacture and use.
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Distinguished Professor of Emergency Medicine; Director, Violence Prevention Research Program, University of California, Davis
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Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
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Senior Research Fellow, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, King's College London
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Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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PhD Candidate, Chemistry, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer in Forensic Chemistry, Curtin University
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato