Think Before You Print is a new Alberta Government initiative to raise awareness of the dangers of 3D Printed Firearms. Nearly 100 3D-printed firearms, handguns, and rifles were seized by ALERT as part of Project Reproduction. The Canada-wide investigation was being led by Quebec’s integrated team against firearms trafficking, known as EILTA.
The ‘Nutty 9’ is an ingenious new and improved bolt design for the FGC-9 which consists of nothing more than four nuts and two bolts screwed into a printed connector piece. The only thing left for you to do is simply drill a hole for the firing pin, which could even be done with an old egg-beater drill. A handy printable jig is even included to stick your drill through so there is no measuring or anything else involved. Any kid in the world can now make an effective 9mm carbine, currently being used in war zones, quietly from the comfort of their bedroom.
“Yep fully printed. Only metal is barrel springs and screws. Just calling it Just-in-Case. I over halled the el ratto. Made it reliable and serviceable. Files are done working on guide.”
The barrel in this case is simply a piece of steel break-line tube pressed into a printed outer barrel. These types of almost fully 3D printed semi-auto pistols are starting to show up seized around the world – now coupled with fully printed silencers that rival commercially made ones.
Working Group on Firearms, 11th Session – Vienna, Austria, 3 and 4 April 2024
In the lunchbreak of the Working Group’s first day, United Kingdom, with the support of the UNODC Firearms Trafficking Section, organizes a side event, entitled “United Kingdom’s Multi Agency Approach to Tackling the Threat of 3D-printed Firearms”. The spread and increasing availability of 3D-printed firearms as feasible lethal weapons that can be used in serious crime is a global threat. This event will be an opportunity to find out more about Project INTERKNOW, the UK’s Multi agency response co-ordinated by the National Crime Agency, to tackling the increasing threat of 3D-printed firearms.
Points of discussion:
A new variant hybrid 3D printed submachine gun seized in Espirito Santo, Brazil, which appeared last year. It’s an open bolt tubing SMG but appears to make use of a heavily modified and hand fitted 3D printed AR9 lower and furniture. It is chambered for .380 ACP. Perhaps someone out there recognizes the exact files thrown together in this example.
“The searches were carried out last Monday, simultaneously in France and Belgium. In our country these took place in Heverlee and Oud-Heverlee, where two people were arrested. The suspects, an 18-year-old woman from Leuven and a 26-year-old man from France, were arrested by the investigating judge.
In the house where the couple was staying, investigators found an illegal weapons workshop. During the raid, the 3D printer was actively printing penguns (firearms in the shape of a ballpoint pen). Dozens of metal and plastic weapon parts, as well as ready-to-use 3D firearms, were seized.”
The pistols seized appear to be variations of the Y22 Hammer which was designed to be made in bedrooms in Europe.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer pictured with ‘The Cabfare’, a .22 caliber 3D printable derringer type pistol released by the anonymous internet collective ‘Black Lotus Coalition‘.
“This is why this is so needed. There weren’t 3D printers 30 years ago, but now someone can easily make all the pieces of a gun with very heavy-duty plastic,” Schumer said. “It just looks like a gun. There’s no metal in it. None.”
“Executed by the Bloque De Seguridad, in CPL N ° 4 “El Rodeo”, focused on the control of prohibited objects in the prison”
A recent case from Sweden:
“Already 20 years ago, Raimo Huolman, 55, was singled out as “the mafia’s gunsmith”. – I am like Bofors, he said then. Now he has – once again – been sentenced to four and a half years in prison for, among other things, extremely serious weapons offences. At home in the kitchen, he 3D-printed automatic weapons and revolvers to be sold to the Foxtrot network, according to prosecutors.”
Several identical firearms have been seized in recent months and appear to be mostly 3D printed double-action pepper box type revolvers using a Webley-Fosbery type tracked cylinder arrangement. The cylinders (thankfully for anyone who shoots one) appear to be sleeved with lengths of steel tube and chamber .22 rimfire.
‘HEXAGUN 22, D.A (Double action?) Pepperbox’
An FGC-9 fitted with a silencer along with hashish weighing approximately 800 grams seized from a residence in Moshav.
Impro Guns 