3D Printers and Illegal Australian Submachine Guns

By Dean Weingarten

By Dean Weingarten

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)-
In late November of 2016, the leftist Guardian, in the UK, reported that 3D printers were used to make illegal submachine guns in Australia. Reports of homemade submachine guns in Australia have become fairly common. From theguardian.com:

A highly sophisticated weapons production facility using 3D printers and computers to make machine guns has been uncovered in a series of raids across the Gold Coast.

Police say they found four homemade automatic submachine guns, silencers, ammunition, a replica handgun, a .45 calibre pistol and equipment used to make weapons at two Nerang businesses, as well as a pill press.

The equipment used to make the weapons included computers, a 3D printer, drill presses and other gun parts and is believed to be the most sophisticated of its kind found in Queensland.

The submachine guns appear to be variants of the “Luty”. The Luty is a homemade submachine gun design by Philip Luty. They have appeared all over the world in places where it is difficult to legally procure firearms. The Luty is commonly made of sheet metal, pipes, and ordinarily available metal shapes. I suspect that …Read the Rest

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