Yep. Just as I suspected.
Posted on 06/22/2019 12:14:19 AM PDT by marktwain
A student has become the first person in the UK to be convicted for using a 3D printer to manufacture a gun.
Tendai Muswere, 26, pleaded guilty at Southwark crown court on Wednesday to the charge of manufacturing a 3D printed gun.
Police had initially gained access to Muswere’s home in Pimlico, central London, in October 2017 using a drug warrant, but found components of a 3D printed gun capable of firing a lethal shot during the search.
Muswere, a student who does not hold a firearms licence, told officers he had printed the firearm for a “dystopian film” as part of a university project – but later refused to comment on what the film project was about.
Muswere claimed he was unaware the weapon he had printed was capable of firing. A subsequent police search of Muswere’s browsing history revealed he had watched videos demonstrating how to manufacture a firearm capable of firing live ammunition using a 3D printer.
During a second search of his property, in February 2018, police found further components of a 3D printed gun.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Sort of a crime think law.
Later on in the article, they say they know he was planning to line the printed firearms with steel tubes, to make them capable of being fired.
That is a composite firearm. They can work.
It still seems like a thought crime to me.
Yep. Just as I suspected.
He still needs ammunition, that cannot be 3d printed. Yes, a thought crime.
I know how to build an atomic bomb, but don't have the radioactive material to make it work. Silly London authorities, locking people up for thought crimes that cannot harm people.
This is a common mistake. You almost certainly do not, in fact, have the design, engineering and machining prowess, and teams, to trigger an atomic explosion, even were you to have the “materials.”
It is a very, very difficult thing to do.
That is why so many people who really know what they are talking about are rather dismissive about the capabilities of “rogue nations.”
But of course you are righ, cat.
London / the Met wants to spook anyone who might mistrust the status quo...
Didn’t work out so well for ‘em last time to have armed subjects questioning the King’s authority!
“Found Components... Does not sound as if they found an actual gun that could actually fire.”
You can make a “actual gun that could actually fire” out of a old car antenna in just a hour or so. A crude shotgun is just as easy to make from materials available at the local hardware.
Those can be very effective if crude.
I do not see the London Bobbies arresting hardware store owners... just yet.
Old fashioned ZIP guns ain’t out of style. They still work and don’t need expensive equipment to make.
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