Machine gun made in Britain by a 3D printer
POLICE who seized this submachine gun manufactured using a 3D printer believe it is the first of its kind found in the UK.
The fully-functional weapon carried the words ‘live free or die’ and featured an image of an arm holding a sword with blood dripping from it, Sheffield crown court was told.
christopher Gill, 35, Sibusiso Moyo, 41, and Majeeb Rehman, 46, are on trial after police found the loaded gun in a BMW car near Bradford in May last year. Another partially assembled gun, also created on a 3D printer, was found in Gill’s home in the city, the court heard.
Prosecutor Stephen Wood Kc said a trained police officer who inspected the luger carbine said he’d never seen such a weapon before. Firearms and ballistics expert Andre Horne told the court that most of the FGc-9, 9mm gun recovered from Rehman’s car had been produced on a 3D printer. Other parts had been homemade, and the court also heard it was successfully test-fired.
Moyo’s DNA matched swabs taken from seized items, and Mr Wood said he was ‘intimately involved in the manufacturing process’.
Moyo, of Hull, and Gill denied conspiracy to manufacture prohibited firearms and having a prohibited weapon for sale or transfer. The pair, along with Rehman, of Bradford, all deny conspiracy to transfer a prohibited firearm. The case continues.