Report Police raid 'Britain's first 3D gun factory'

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A suspected gun factory which used a state-of-the-art 3D printer was uncovered by police yesterday. Stunned officers believe a gang were using the machine to make deadly firearms.

They recovered a freshly-made plastic magazine and trigger during a raid in Bagley, Manchester, which could be used to create a handgun. One senior officer said organised crime gangs are acquiring technology on the high street to make guns ‘in the privacy of their own home.’ Det Insp Chris Mossop, of Greater Manchester Police, told Sky News: ‘These could be the next generation of firearms.’

The discovery is believed to be the first of its kind in Britain and confirms the worst fears of security chiefs. They warned just a few weeks ago that criminals were attempting to use 3D printing technology to manufacture guns. Police fear terrorists and criminals could use the machines and plans that are readily available to download online to circumvent gun controls.


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There was a post made in the past stating that guns manufactured with 3D Printers failed to be of any use because they disintegrate after the first few shots. Why would they have to fear these kinds of weapons, when they have superior arms?
 

Narks

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plastic guns are rubbish, you can already make better homemade guns using a steel pipe and whatnot, people have been doing that since world war 2 (maybe even earlier??)

nobody is going to 'sneak' a plastic gun onto an airplane, the bullets are still made of metal...
 

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The main question is, why "criminals" want it, in the first place?
 

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They have 3D printers that use metal, I'm sure those would make a pretty decent gun.
 

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They can also just make certain parts of the gun that aren't in the firing part.
 

Narks

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They have 3D printers that use metal, I'm sure those would make a pretty decent gun.
yeah, but those:

1). are expensive
2). are huge
3). have been around for ages
 

Varine

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yeah, but those:

1). are expensive
2). are huge
3). have been around for ages

They're not that expensive. Just like everything else, they go up in cost, but they're only like ten grand on the low end. If you're for some reason into shooting people and need to have guns that can't be tracked, it's not too bad.
 

Narks

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yeah, but even then, the machine itself could be tracked, as well as the purchases for raw material required to use it
 

Varine

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What? It's not a fucking nuclear reactor, no one is sitting there watching a list of who bought one, nor are they exactly difficult to build anyway. Why would having a 3D printer or CNC draw attention to anything?
 

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You know, you can make a lethal spud gun out of a couple pieces of piping and a barbeque ignitor. If your really ballsy you can make it way scarier by adding a easy to make high explosive like tatp to the projectile. Then you have a cannon that fires high explosive rounds for less than $50 of easy to find materials.
 

Varine

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You know, you can make a lethal spud gun out of a couple pieces of piping and a barbeque ignitor. If your really ballsy you can make it way scarier by adding a easy to make high explosive like tatp to the projectile. Then you have a cannon that fires high explosive rounds for less than $50 of easy to find materials.

Or, you know, you could just get a knife and stab someone like the rest of us. Like us regular people have time to build that shit before we go murder someone.
 
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