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You can make toys for your kids with a 3D printer.
You can make action figures with a 3D printer.
You can make "ambiguous objects" with a 3D printer. I have several.
You can make a colorful coffee mug with a 3D printer.
Or you can make a gun and silencer with a 3D printer, which is what Luigi Mangione did.
I've seen the files for making a "ghost gun" online. They are readily available.
You can make a red gun, a fluorescent orange gun, a blue gun, a pink gun, a rainbow gun, any color gun you wish.
Or, if you are lazy, you can buy a gun kit with all the necessary parts to build your gun and start your own assassin service for just a few dollars.
The police officers in Pennsylvania who on Monday arrested the man who has now been charged in the killing, Luigi Mangione, 26, said that he was found with a black pistol and a suppressor, often called a silencer. Both, the authorities said, had been fabricated with a 3-D printer, a device that sculpts a physical object from a digital model.
Each year, authorities in the U.S. seize thousands of ghost guns, almost all of them originating from inexpensive kits bought online that can be assembled into a working weapon in as little as half an hour. But it is rare to recover a 3-D printed gun used in a crime, according to Tom Chittum, a former associate deputy director of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives.
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A 3-D printer can be used to create a gun frame, which is the only individual part of a firearm that federal law regulates, and then assemble a working firearm by equipping it with commercially made aftermarket components that are not regulated, including the slide, barrel, and trigger mechanism, Mr. Chittum said.
You can make action figures with a 3D printer.
You can make "ambiguous objects" with a 3D printer. I have several.
You can make a colorful coffee mug with a 3D printer.
Or you can make a gun and silencer with a 3D printer, which is what Luigi Mangione did.
I've seen the files for making a "ghost gun" online. They are readily available.
You can make a red gun, a fluorescent orange gun, a blue gun, a pink gun, a rainbow gun, any color gun you wish.
Or, if you are lazy, you can buy a gun kit with all the necessary parts to build your gun and start your own assassin service for just a few dollars.
The police officers in Pennsylvania who on Monday arrested the man who has now been charged in the killing, Luigi Mangione, 26, said that he was found with a black pistol and a suppressor, often called a silencer. Both, the authorities said, had been fabricated with a 3-D printer, a device that sculpts a physical object from a digital model.
Each year, authorities in the U.S. seize thousands of ghost guns, almost all of them originating from inexpensive kits bought online that can be assembled into a working weapon in as little as half an hour. But it is rare to recover a 3-D printed gun used in a crime, according to Tom Chittum, a former associate deputy director of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives.
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A 3-D printer can be used to create a gun frame, which is the only individual part of a firearm that federal law regulates, and then assemble a working firearm by equipping it with commercially made aftermarket components that are not regulated, including the slide, barrel, and trigger mechanism, Mr. Chittum said.
Ghost Gun Taken From Luigi Mangione Was Fully Homemade, Officials Say
The ghost gun and suppressor found on the man accused of killing the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare were made with the help of a 3-D printer, authorities said.
www.nytimes.com