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.
There’s that term again “buy back”, like they were theirs in the first place.
Better than bitcoin!
“buy back”
The second amendment is very clear on this point—the government owns all guns.
;-)
I sold an inoperable handgun to the Baltimore Police Dept for $200. It was a pretty good deal. I bought it for $110
Another twist on, “Whatever you want more of, subsidize.”
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.
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.
Bump for later...
I really hate these lying sonsabitches.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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