My country's police just busted a dangerous 3d printed weapons manufacturer.

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Wispy2891@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨3dprinting@lemmy.world⁩

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Article: tg.la7.it/…/bolzano-coltelli-stampante-3d-a-scuol…

Local student arrested for ‘manufacturing weapons.’ In reality, he printed some PLA shivs that would probably shatter if they hit a piece of parmesan cheese. The police seized the printer like it was a meth lab. 10/10 for the dramatic crime scene photo, though.

(Backstory: a few weeks ago a student in another city/school was stabbed with a (iron) knife and died so now politicians need to show that zero tolerance policies are successful.)

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entwine@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I don’t get it, are knives illegal in Italy? What if I want to cut my spaghetti?

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- NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  What if I want to cut my spaghetti?
  
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- squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  This is the really weird thing. If these knives were made of metal and in a kitchen drawer, nobody would think of them as being weapons. But since they are 3d printed, that’s novel enough to warrant some panic or something…
  
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  - ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Not sure how rules are in Italy, but where I live “switchblades” and other one-hand operated collapsible knives are illegal.
    
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  - Jocarnail@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It’s not because they are 3d printed. He was distributing them at school! That is the problem.
    
    If he were to file down toothbrushes and do the same he would still be arrested and his files confiscated.
    
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- JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Spring assisted switchblades are illegal in quite a few countries, so I imagine they are in Italy as well. Still completely ridiculous, as they are plastic toy replicas, and not actual knives.
  
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  - NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    most of those classic stiletto switchblades are manufactured in italy
    
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  - teft@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Often even unassisted switchblades are illegal. They’re called gravity knives.
    
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  - Fondots@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I don’t know the knife laws in Italy, especially not for the specific part of Italy this occurred in
    
    But often laws about switchblades and such have to do with carrying them, or occasionally selling them, but often just owning a switchblade and keeping it at home isn’t really an issue
    
    As far as manufacturing, I again don’t know about the specific regulations, if there’s maybe any kind of licensing or something needed, but I know for a fact that it is either not totally illegal to manufacture a switchblade in Italy, or they are *very * selectively enforcing those laws because there are some very well-known manufacturers of them based there (if I had more disposable income I’ve had my eye on a Frank Beltrame stiletto for a while)
    
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  - INeedANewUserName@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I’m pretty sure 30 years ago they were legal in Italy but maybe not OTF, out the front. That seems to often be an important legal distinction.
    
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- turmacar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Auto-translate is saying ‘snap knife’, but I’d imagine it’s to do with it being deployable / spring loaded in some way.
  
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pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
But they didn’t confiscate his kitchen knives?

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- RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Those probably have serial numbers and a whole tracking system lol
  
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Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Poor guy even got his ams with four rolls of pla confiscated ☠️

I can’t imagine getting a search warrant for toys in a teenager room.

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- ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  3D printers are not really toys though, regardless of how ridiculous this arrest is. It’s a tool, like a hammer or drill…nothing more, nothing less.
  
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Spesknight@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Background: there was a student stabbed to death in Liguria (whole other place) and so media is going crazy about anything knife related.

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- 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The students were of Egyptian and Moroccan descent, so right-wing politicians are having a field day with the whole “culture war” shit
  
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empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I’m sure they’ll be introducing legislation that makes owning your own means of production onerous if not illegal within a week or two. Can’t be having citizens realize they can make their own replacement parts or consumer items!

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DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
That’s performative. Sucks to be the student who will have his life ruined to be made “an example” out of.

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- ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The just d took a shortcut to filing a toothbrush. Those don’t do shit a kitchen knife wouldn’t do.
  
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sj_zero ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Hopefully someday these places make murder illegal so people can't kill others without violating the law.
artyom@piefed.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

he printed some PLA shivs that would probably shatter if they hit a piece of parmesan cheese.

How big of a piece of parmesan are we talking? Ever tried to cut into a wheel of cold parmesan? It’s pretty tough. Meatbags are a lot less tough.

That being said, we learned how to make knives by smashing 2 rocks together like a thousand years ago, this ain’t stopping nobody.

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- Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I can confirm it’s much harder to stab a wheel of parmesan cheese than a person, but at least the cheese doesn’t scream
  
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  - Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Ok, I’m stabbing the cheese wrong then I guess.
    
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Bazell@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
People who 3D prints anime weapons replicas:

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- Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  The swing speed on Guts’ greatsword is so slow, the cops have plenty of time to unload 2 maybe even 3 magazines into them, so they’re not as dangerous as the faster DPS weapons like daggers and shivs.
  
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  - SpikesOtherDog@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yeah, but in this case it’s less a sword and more a lump of plastic.
    
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sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Next we’ll all see more legislation to make 3D printer software monitor everything you make and auto-report anything deemed dangerous to the elite

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escapeVelocity@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
This guy will go to jail and start making knives for other inmates lol

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BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Those knives sure are dangerous

Hope they will soon ban these too and put their manufacturer in jail:

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fonix232@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
To be perfectly fair, a proper wheel of Parmigianino Reggiano IS quite hard...

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foodandart@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Wow. Going after letter openers now, are they?

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- Jocarnail@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  If you were to bring a letter opener to school and sell it to your friends you would still get a nice meeting with the police. The existence of the journal article is more related to the fact that a kid was stabbed to death in school last week, than to the fact that a dumb kid did something stupid and marginally related to his 3d printer.
  
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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Well, I guess if I ever move to Italy I’ll be screwed…

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modus@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Another murderbot off the streets. Italy is safe.

For now.

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- spitfire@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  They need to ban printer sales
  
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  - lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    This is fucking dumb. I made a better knife than that on the bench grinder in my high school shop class. The teacher watched me do it (and immediately took it away).
    
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