Comment on Why 3D-Printing an Untraceable Ghost Gun Is Easier Than Ever (Podcast 18mins)

just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• venusaur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How do you mean? You 3D print something with no serial and it’s untraceable. Even if they find it they can’t definitively say your firearm shot the bullets. Unless of course you’re on video doing it and admit to it.

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  • seathru@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You 3D print something with no serial and it’s untraceable.

    Except for all the metal parts they used a debit card/paypal to buy.

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    • magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The only regulated parts (I know of) are:

      • receiver (considered the actual gun)
      • suppressors
      • autosears (or anything else that makes your gun fully automatic, or even act like it)
      • big magazines (not federal but a lot of states have laws on em’)

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        autosears

        Autosears themselves are not actually regulated. It’s the action of fully automatic fire that is. Which is kind of ridiculous because it’s not terribly uncommon to have a gun do it by accident on worn out parts.

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      • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Wild. I suppose, thinking about it, it’s also way quicker to iterate on, test, and improve too.

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The components are traceable either. They don’t have serial numbers on them. Typically only the lower receiver does. This is why that’s the part that’s typically 3D-printed.

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    • joel_feila@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Those would hard to teace and yu can pay cash. How many stores sell metal pipe withthe same inner diameter as a 45 caliber. It would be lole tracing meth lab by ammonia sales.

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      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Depends. He used a printed glock, not an FGC2.0. The FGC uses parts like you describe but printed glocks just take glock parts.

        That said, it’s still fairly trivial to acquire those glock parts anonymously.

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    • venusaur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, you can’t easily print an entire gun, but the parts you buy don’t necessarily tie you to the gun.

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    • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Which is obviously why you buy them with Monero instead.

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  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In the age of AI deepfakes, I don’t even think that’s conclusive enough.

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    • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      gotta count how many fingers it took to pull the trigger

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      • venusaur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Haha it’s better than that now. You have to see them eating.

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    • venusaur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For real

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    • RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      really easy to tell if an image is AI or not still it’s not that good yet

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  • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Unless of course you’re on video doing it and admit to it.

    Something tells me not doing that part is going to be harder for a significant portion of today’s population than getting a weapon.

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    • venusaur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s true

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  • just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Didn’t Luigi get caught with the weapon in his backpack? The title picture on this article is literally him. If it’s untraceable by printing, it seems you’d want to not have it on you if apprehended.

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    • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Factually, they searched his bag when they arrested him, put the bag in a police vehicle, drove for some time, then searched his bag again off bodycam, and that’s when they “found” the ghost gun in his bag, which, without a serial number, is conveniently impossible to prove it was not planted.

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      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Funny that they never deny the gun was his, just that the search was unconstitutional.

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    • joel_feila@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Common plan for professional hitman is to drop the gun at or near the scene. With a ghost gun what could tgey trace back

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    • venusaur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah but they have video of him too. Idk the case well enough but I assume the gun itself wasn’t enough to prove he did it.

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