25-10-2013, 09:25 PM
I think the Old Bill are going to end up with an awful big pile of egg on their faces on this one. It emerged pretty early on on Twitter this morning that the parts found by the police were actually replacement parts for the printer. If you look at them you can see straight away that they are not gun parts. Without stopping to ask the right questions the cops fed the scare story to the BBC who milked it for all the fear they could muster. More sober experts when asked said the 3D printer was just a cheap old hobbyist one and in order to print a working gun you would need a printer costing £50,000. For that sort of money why wouldn't you just buy some guns? The parts are now being analysed by experts and I expect this one will quietly slip off the radar when the absurd mistake is discovered. I guess it will have served its fear-generating purpose by then.