Nerds or crooks? 3D gun makers in spotlight after US executive murder


A police report states that 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, who led authorities on a six-day manhunt only to be arrested in a McDonald's restaurant in Pennsylvania, was found with a 'black 3D-printed pistol and a black silencer' in his backpack. — AP

WASHINGTON: Gun rights activist Rob Pincus was worried when he heard a 3D-printed "ghost gun" was found on the alleged shooter in last week's notorious murder of a US health executive in New York.

Not because it showed the danger of the untraceable weapons – but because the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson would mean "another wave of attacks" against private gun makers.

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