Las guns made with a 3D printer They are not new, but these types of firearms have increased. According to a report published by the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, there were a 1,600% increase in the use of «ghost guns» of private manufacture in crimes that occurred between 2017 and 2023.
A ghost gun is a weapon without a serial number. The cheapest way to get it is with a 3D printer. They are in high demand, and they have already killed people.
An absurd and tragic coincidence has led to the arrest of a gang that sold firearms manufactured with a 3D printer in Philadelphia, United States.
Ghost weapons created with 3D printers are already claiming lives
According to the media Ars Technicalast December a scrap metal dealer named Jeremy Fuentes went to a house in the Bucks County neighborhood of Philadelphia to pick up some scrap metal.
The owner took him to the garden, and on his walk through the house he discovered that He had a warehouse with weapons and ammunition. A damn coincidence, considering that Fuentes’ second job was sell pistols 3D printed.
Normally these plastic guns are only the casing, inside they carry original weapon parts, which is why that warehouse was a «treasure» for his gang. Since the owners were elderly people, They decided to raid the house to take the weapons and ammunition..
Jeremy Fuentes passed the address on to his partner Charles Fulforth, who was the one who printed the guns at home, using several 3D printers.
Fulforth and another member of the gang went to raid the house, but made a serious mistake. The address was written wrong, or they read it wrongand they ended up in a different neighborhood that had a street with a similar name.
They raided the house, but there was not a couple of elderly people there, but a 25-year-old young man named Andrew Gaudio, and his mother Bernadette. Andrew was shot to death, and Bernadette was wounded by a gunshot.although he survived. Of course, there were no traces of weapons in the house, because they had gone to the wrong place.
Chance was extremely cruel to poor Andrew Gaudio, but things like that happen often in a country where almost everyone has a firearm.
Jeremy Fuentes and Charles Fulforth have been arrested, and Philadelphia police have determined that Charles Fulforth killed Andrew Gaudio with one of these guns made with a 3D printer.
The police discovered that two or three home 3D printers are enoughinstalled next to the bed, to set up a network selling ghost weapons. With them they also manufactured submachine gun converters, which increase the price of one of these pistols by $1,000. When a society allows the cult of weapons, things like this happen. Andrew Gaudio is just another innocent victim.
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