Man Arrested for 3D-Printing ‘Totally Computerized Sub Machine Gun’

A 26-year-old man in Gotland has been arrested by Swedish police for manufacturing computerized firearms, utilizing a 3D printer to create elements.

The suspect was arrested after turning himself in again in January, reporting to police in Visby that he had been manufacturing and promoting weapons that he had largely created with a 3D printer, and claimed he needed assist police.

Shantu Wahlgren, the defence lawyer for the person, informed broadcaster SVT, “It was he who reported himself and took the 3D-printed weapon… to the police station.”

The 26-year-old now faces aggravated weapons costs that declare he manufactured and possessed a “fully automatic 3D-printed firearm” and in addition 216 rounds of ammunition.

Prosecutor Mats Whilborg commented on the continuing prosecution saying, “The fact that fully lethal weapons can be manufactured in this way is worrying.”

After the 26-year-old turned himself into the police he claimed throughout interrogation that he produced and bought the weapons to be able to finance his playing habit and said that he discovered the 216 rounds of ammunition from an area capturing vary.

Final yr, Swedish police warned that 3D-printed weapons had been changing into more and more frequent in Sweden, with Mikael Högfors of the Nationwide Forensic Centre stating authorities cope with not less than 5 or 6 instances per yr.

“If you reduce the smuggling of illegal weapons, the demand will still be there. All the plastic-printed weapons we see today have been made with the intention of being used in criminal contexts,” he mentioned.

The case comes as Sweden noticed a document variety of deadly shootings final yr and has seen a surge of gang violence, together with shootings and bombings, within the Stockholm space for the reason that deadly capturing of well-known gangster Mehdi ”Dumle” Sachit on Christmas Day final yr.

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