The Liberator is comprised of 16 interchangeable pieces, with a nail for a firing pin.
On a blazing Saturday afternoon, Wilson returns to the remote firing range where he first tested the Liberator.
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The liberator of black slaves is portrayed in her late 20s, young, but weary, sitting on a bench carved into a boulder.
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.
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.
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.
Self-driving cars would be the great liberator of people for whom driving is a boring necessity.
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"You know, not far from the White House is a statue of the great liberator, Simon Bolivar, " Bush said.
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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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 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.
In a message delivered by video early this year, the FARC invoked Simon Bolivar's name as a role model and a liberator of oppressed people and as a supporter of continental unity.
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