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PRINTING MONEY: Savvy New Yorker earns $21,000 by selling 110 guns he 3D-printed for buyback scheme
The U.S. Sun ^ | 10/03/2022 | Jona Jaupi

Posted on 10/03/2022 9:36:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

A TECH-SAVVY New Yorker has made a whopping $21,000 by selling 3D-printed guns.

The man, who identified himself as 'Kem', sold 110 guns to the attorney general's office in a buy-back scheme, Futurism reported.

Earlier this year, the state of New York started a 'Cash for Guns' program that offers at least $200 to anyone who surrenders a gun.

Kem then saw people tweeting about the program while joking that they could 3D-print guns to earn some instant cash.

The tweets inspired Kem to try the scheme out in real life, using a $200 3D printer he'd gotten for Christmas.

"I 3D-printed a bunch of lower receivers and frames for different kinds of firearms," the man said.

He added that he drove six hours to Utica to a gun buyback event being held by the city's police department.

At the event, Kem sold 'back' 110 small firearms, which resulted in 42 gift cards.

Each gift card was worth $500, equalling a total of $21,000.

It's unclear if Kem faced any legal repercussions for the scam but the AG's office put out a statement in response.

"It’s shameful that this individual exploited a program that has successfully taken thousands of guns off the streets to protect our communities from gun violence," the statement read.

The AG office also called the man's scam "greedy" and said that the state has adjusted its gun buyback policies.

"[We wanted] to ensure that no one can exploit this program again for personal gain."

Experts have expressed concern about people using 3D printers to make firearms for some time.

Earlier this year, Chicago police echoed that if 3D guns get into the wrong hands, they could be potentially deadly weapons for criminals or terrorists, per CBS News.



TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; 3dprinting; banglist; buyback; cashforguns; guns; newyork; nra; secondamendment
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To: SeekAndFind

There’s that term again “buy back”, like they were theirs in the first place.


21 posted on 10/04/2022 3:46:32 AM PDT by TiGuy22
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To: SeekAndFind

Better than bitcoin!


22 posted on 10/04/2022 5:32:07 AM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: TiGuy22

“buy back”

The second amendment is very clear on this point—the government owns all guns.

;-)


23 posted on 10/04/2022 5:43:36 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I sold an inoperable handgun to the Baltimore Police Dept for $200. It was a pretty good deal. I bought it for $110


24 posted on 10/04/2022 5:54:01 AM PDT by cyclotic (Follow 1776rm.com. Fighting for our Constitution. @1776RM on Truth)
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To: SeekAndFind

Another twist on, “Whatever you want more of, subsidize.”


25 posted on 10/04/2022 6:02:48 AM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Gun buybacks have zero impact on reducing the gun crime rate. They are a political tool to provide the optics that urban politicians are doing something about gun crime rates and enhancing their reelection chances. If a gangbanger has 10 guns and he turns in one, he still has nine pieces left on the shelf that can last a lifetime to kill his rival.


26 posted on 10/04/2022 6:04:33 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: FLT-bird

You are correct. A willing buyer and a willing seller come to an agreement for a transaction isn’t a scam. It’s a business transaction.


27 posted on 10/04/2022 6:32:20 AM PDT by Flint
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To: SeekAndFind

Bump for later...


28 posted on 10/04/2022 6:56:54 AM PDT by SuperLuminal
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To: SeekAndFind
to protect our communities from gun violence,

I really hate these lying sonsabitches.

29 posted on 10/04/2022 6:58:38 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Why would they buy them back?

The government did not make them, nor did the government in any way provide them to him, therefore the government cannot buy them "back".

"Buy back" is a leftist propaganda term.

30 posted on 10/04/2022 7:00:38 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: SeekAndFind

Dangerous game to play. Garland will send his FBI and ATF nazi thugs to arrest the guy for gun trafficking even if none of them are functioning. The ATF has no problem rewriting rules to create more criminals.


31 posted on 10/04/2022 7:19:01 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: jz638
an unlicensed firearms dealer and treated like a terrorist by the ATF

Fully expect that this is the route the government will take. They will use it as a threat or to make an example of him, probably the former.

He'll likely be told to return the money or he'll be prosecuted for a myriad of gun-related offenses and given what he did and the complexity of gun laws, he probably violated the letter-of-law somewhere along the line or close enough to at least secure an indictment. Someone from the state AG's office will likely contact him with a proposal - return the money or we'll prosecute you and you will definitely accrue far more than $21,000 in attorney fees while facing the possibility of a conviction, fines, and imprisonment.

He should have kept his mouth shut, although I don't think this was ever a good idea.

32 posted on 10/04/2022 8:27:51 AM PDT by CommerceComet ("You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case, the government forgets the first." Rush Limbaugh )
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Earlier this year, Chicago police echoed that if 3D guns get into the wrong hands, they could be potentially deadly weapons for criminals or terrorists, per CBS News.
No chance of that, hardly anyone can come up with $200 for a 3-D printer. And even if they could, a law prohibiting the 3D printing of a firearm would completely solve the problem.
Rimshot!

33 posted on 10/04/2022 9:02:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: FLT-bird

I compare 3D printing to The Weapons Shops of Isher by A. E. Van Vogt brought to real life. If you haven’t read that 1940s era 2A Science fiction, it’s worth the quick read.

https://smile.amazon.com/Weapon-Shops-Isher-van-Vogt-ebook/dp/B00GSZU26S


34 posted on 10/04/2022 12:42:23 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

As I said, the BATFE defines it as a firearm.
Form 4473 must be filled out and NICS done for the sale of a finished handgun frame or lower receiver.
Maybe they stick a few parts on it, but another feature of gun ‘buybacks’, is that the firearms do not have to be functional.
It may be that the cops would decline to purchase them, but (and especially in this case) doing so plays into the narrative about “ghost guns” as well a making the totals “bought back” appear larger, which is a win/win for gun grabber types.

I question whether beat cops find these virtue signalling events to be of any real value, anyway, and someone may well ‘know a guy’ who can print them so the fund can be tapped.


35 posted on 10/08/2022 12:18:48 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (Stand Fast! God knows what He is doing!)
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To: Organic Panic

If a person is manufacturing guns, they have to serialize them and have a Type 07 FFL license for that manufacturing. Failure to do so opens up the printer to Federal charges.

You can make them for your personal use, and not have to put serial numbers on them at present. They cannot be legally sold or distributed (transferred) AFAIK.


36 posted on 10/08/2022 12:24:17 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (Stand Fast! God knows what He is doing!)
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