Watch: Two Arms Dealers Jailed For Using 3D Printer To Make Guns In UK
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Two men were sentenced to 30 years in prison for using a 3D printer to create semiautomatic weapons.
In the first case of its kind in the UK, two men have been jailed for using a 3D printer to manufacture firearms. With the aid of this 3D printing technology, computer science lecturer Sibusiso Moyo and father-of-three Christopher Gill were producing illegal firearms and selling them to criminals.
When Majeed Rehman, a friend of the two men, was apprehended by Bradford police, the officer found out about this scheme to make and supply weapons to criminal gangs.
According to the West Yorkshire Police, they found the homemade guns alongside bullets and other gun-making equipment in raids at addresses in Bradford and Hull where the weapons were manufactured on a kitchen worktop and in a domestic garage. The weapons, described as a hybrid 3D-printed gun with metal parts, were destined to be used in organised crime.
