The Liberator is comprised of 16 interchangeable pieces, with a nail for a firing pin.
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On a blazing Saturday afternoon, Wilson returns to the remote firing range where he first tested the Liberator.
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"You know, not far from the White House is a statue of the great liberator, Simon Bolivar, " Bush said.
The liberator of black slaves is portrayed in her late 20s, young, but weary, sitting on a bench carved into a boulder.
The airmen of RAF Liberator KL654 were on a mission to take supplies to what was then called Malaya, from the Cocos Islands, when their plane crashed.
The end in question was the second coming of Christ, who would arrive either to judge and cleanse a wicked world or as the liberator of down-trodden mankind.
On May 1st, Wilson assembled the 3D-printed pieces of his Liberator for the first time, and agreed to let a Forbes photographer take pictures of the unproven device.
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That didn't take long -- just days after its first test fire, the Liberator, a 3D-printed pistol designed by Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson, has caught the attention of the federal government.
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The Liberator is almost entirely plastic.
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The Liberator fired a standard .380 handgun round without visible damage, though it also misfired on another occasion when the firing pin failed to hit the primer cap in the loaded cartridge due a misalignment in the hammer body, resulting in an anti-climactic thunk.
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Earlier this week Wilson posted a video online showing a single shot being fired from "The Liberator, " a plastic handgun that, with the exception of a metal firing pin and a piece of metal included to comply with the Undetectable Firearms Act, was assembled entirely from parts made with a 3-D printer.
The year 2009 will indeed, here and across the world, be a chance to recognise this form of communication as an essential liberator, a window on the world for children reading their books (under their bedcovers, as I did), or adults being able to go about their business with confidence - and with the certainty that very few other people will be able to read their secrets.
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