NYC Man Busted For ‘Printed Firearm’ Plans To Sue City

By Tom Knighton

Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File

In the hysteria surrounding 3D-printed firearms, everyone expected guns to pop up everywhere, and there was nothing to be done about it. However, one man was arrested for allegedly printing a gun in New York City.

However, that arrest may well result in a lawsuit the city doesn’t want to deal with.

A former puppet worker for Broadway’s “The Lion King” plans to sue the city for costing him a “lucrative” deal with Disney when cops busted him for allegedly making a 3-D printed gun, The Post has learned.

Prop maker Ilya Vett, 48, claims he was the victim of false arrest last year over the “black plastic object” that a co-worker saw him printing inside the Minkskoff Theatre.

The Brooklyn resident says he told cops that the gun he was making would be “completely non-functioning,” and a detective acknowledged it was merely “a prop of a firearm,” according to a notice of claim filed with the city Comptroller’s Office last month.

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Manhattan prosecutors dropped the case against Vett in March and sealed the record, the filing says.

At the time of the arrest, I remember commenting that if Vett was stupid …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms