Posted on 10/10/2022 7:03:31 AM PDT by marktwain
On August 28, 2022, in Utica, New York, the Attorney General’s office of Letitia James paid out over $21,000 in gift cards for 3D printed “ghost guns.” The guns were printed by an anonymous entrepreneur on a $200 printer he received for Christmas.
Letitia James took credit for the “buyback” of “ghost guns” at Utica. “Buyback” is an Orwellian term. The guns which are turned in were never owned by the government. The AG did not mention the mass purchase of 3D printed guns, although they mentioned 177 “ghost guns.” From ag.ny.gov:
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that 296 firearms, including 177 ghost guns, were turned in to law enforcement at a gun buyback event hosted by her office and the Utica Police Department. The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) accepts — with no questions asked — working and non-working, unloaded firearms in exchange for compensation on site. Yesterday’s event is a part of Attorney General James’ ongoing efforts to combat gun violence and protect New Yorkers throughout the state. To date, Attorney General James has taken more than 3,300 firearms out of communities through gun buyback events and other initiatives since taking office in 2019.
The man interviewed by wktv.com assumed the nom de guerre of “Kem”. Kem stated he obtained $21,000 in gift cards for 110 3D-printed guns he created and turned in at the “buyback”.
“I’m sure handing over $21,000 in gift cards to some punk kid after getting a bunch of plastic junk was a rousing success,” laughed Kem. “Gun buybacks are a fantastic way of showing, number one, that your policies don’t work, and, number 2, you’re creating perverse demand. You’re causing people to show up to these events, and, they don’t actually reduce crime whatsoever.”
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
I bet that kid that got suspended for nibbling his poptart into the form of a gun could do as well.
What kind of profit do you think he turned?
I have no clue of the cost of material and programs.
Did all of the guns have the same serial number, or does the 3D printer advance that numbering as well as producing an actual weapon? I don’t know enough about 3D printing technology.
Whatever you subsidize, you get more of........................
Ghost guns have no serial number.................
It took him about 12 hours of driving and 12 hours of printing for the items which scored $21,000.
That’s a healthy profit margin then...
Not a half bad return on a $200 printer . . . though I do wonder what he paid for "toner".
That WAS him! In grade school. Dollars to donuts. Getting his revenge on effeminate, overreacting school administrators everywhere. LOL
177 Ghost guns and he accounts for 110................🤔
“Ghost guns” by anti2a crowd definition don’t have serial numbers.
Kinda what I was thinking......what did he spend to get the $21k.
The article did say the guns were printed on a $200 3D printer.
Yes. I understand there were at least two others who scored about $ 4-5 thousand.
See post 7
The classic cobra effect example...
Just how common is the use of “ghost guns” is the commission of crimes?
I’m a true crime show addict, and I can recall very few instances of a gun used in a crime not having a serial number. In all of those cases, as best I can recall, the serial number was filed off, and modern technology can usually recover that number due to the imprint in the metal going deeper than is visible to the naked eye.
I don’t know that even people like the AG believe that these programs DO anything. They’re just theater: see, we ARE trying to do something about crime. Let’s not talk about the people I let out of jail, or people I decline to prosecute. And certainly let’s not talk about the inordinate amount of time and resources I spend trying to find (or invent) trying to find something, ANYTHING, to arrest Donald Trump for!
Where did the government get the money to “buy back” guns?
110 guns are gonna require a lot of filament.
Even if he uses the cheap stuff, that’ll be a decent chunk of change.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.