Nice work if you can get it!...................
Posted on 10/10/2022 7:03:31 AM PDT by marktwain
On August 28, 2022, in Utica, New York, the Attorney General’s office of Letitia James paid out over $21,000 in gift cards for 3D printed “ghost guns.” The guns were printed by an anonymous entrepreneur on a $200 printer he received for Christmas.
Letitia James took credit for the “buyback” of “ghost guns” at Utica. “Buyback” is an Orwellian term. The guns which are turned in were never owned by the government. The AG did not mention the mass purchase of 3D printed guns, although they mentioned 177 “ghost guns.” From ag.ny.gov:
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that 296 firearms, including 177 ghost guns, were turned in to law enforcement at a gun buyback event hosted by her office and the Utica Police Department. The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) accepts — with no questions asked — working and non-working, unloaded firearms in exchange for compensation on site. Yesterday’s event is a part of Attorney General James’ ongoing efforts to combat gun violence and protect New Yorkers throughout the state. To date, Attorney General James has taken more than 3,300 firearms out of communities through gun buyback events and other initiatives since taking office in 2019.
The man interviewed by wktv.com assumed the nom de guerre of “Kem”. Kem stated he obtained $21,000 in gift cards for 110 3D-printed guns he created and turned in at the “buyback”.
“I’m sure handing over $21,000 in gift cards to some punk kid after getting a bunch of plastic junk was a rousing success,” laughed Kem. “Gun buybacks are a fantastic way of showing, number one, that your policies don’t work, and, number 2, you’re creating perverse demand. You’re causing people to show up to these events, and, they don’t actually reduce crime whatsoever.”
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They got some of it from you. Only they keep the money they steal from you. Places like Wal Mart gives then give cards for $10.00 or so. Like Esau in the Bible, people who sell theirbirth right, sell it cheap. He got a bowl of stew for his.
LOL!............Never heard of that!...................😜
Nice work if you can get it!...................
“Yesterday’s event is a part of Attorney General James’ ongoing efforts to combat gun violence and protect New Yorkers throughout the state.”
This is so stupid it defies belief!
I’m sure the criminals were the ones turning in their guns.
Glad to see some ingenious entrepreneur taking advantage of their stupidity!
I presume he is now being investigated for tax evasion.
Probably. I hate our government.
This guy should write a book - How to Get Rich Off of Liberal Stupidity.
I think 12 hours is a bit underestimated too, for the printing time. For a high end 3D printer, it might put them out faster, but even still, those things would take a few hours for each one.
If he used one of the more advanced printing filaments (instead of PLA filament that is far less expensive, but less durable and cannot withstand heat and stress) it would take longer and cost more, but I don’t see how he doesn’t come out ahead in the end.
Most 3d printed frames do not have serial numbers
Many, if not most, of these gun turn in schemes are funded with recent money borrowed in the Democrat's multi-trillion dollar spending spree.
The "auto sears" are small, about the size of a 1" nut. He printed 30 of them to a bed, and printed 2 beds, at six hours each.
i’m more interested in printing Warhammer 4k miniatures.... that stuff costs way more than my guns.
I had no idea. I had no idea whatsoever that that these items they are giving money to people for were that item.
I thought at the very least it would be the reciever, which would take far longer to print.
Wow.
If that is the case, this guy should be given a medal for robbing stupid people of their money. (I know, in this case the “stupid people” are US getting our tax money robbed from us, but...at least not federally. Yet. Unless the localities get a handout from the Federal Government to conduct these fiascos. Which is possible.)
Six days ago:
Man claims he was paid $21,000 for 3D-printed guns at New York AG’s buyback event in Utica
News Channel 2 WKTV ^ | 9-28-22 | Joleen Ferris
Posted on 10/4/2022, 11:04:44 PM by aMorePerfectUnion
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4098249/posts
Same event, more details in this article.
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