Seller exploits NY gun-buyback loophole with 3D printer, makes $21K

Seller exploits NY gun-buyback loophole with help of 3D printer

ALBANY — New York’s attorney general has changed the rules of a state gun buyback program after a participant exploited the system by using a 3D printer to make firearm parts in bulk that he then turned in for $21,000…

West Virginia man makes $21K at New York gun buyback through loophole

New York's attorney general has changed the rules of a state gun buyback program after a West Virginia man obtained $21,000 in gift cards using a loophole in the program's rules about so-called "ghost guns."

New York changes gun buyback after seller gets $21,000 for 3D-printed parts

Participant used a 3D printer to make firearm parts in bulk that he then exchanged for gift cards

Seller exploits gun-buyback loophole with help of 3D printer

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York's attorney general has changed the rules of a state gun buyback program after a participant exploited the system by using a 3D printer to make firearm parts in bulk that he then turned in for $21,000 in gift cards.The seller, who identified himself by a pseudonym, said he traveled from West Virginia to a gun buyback Aug. 27 in Utica, New York, to take advantage of a loophole in the program — and to demonstrate that b…

Seller exploits NY gun-buyback loophole with 3D printer, makes $21K

The seller called the idea of buybacks “ridiculously stupid,” adding that “the people running this event are horribly uneducated about guns, gun crime, and the laws surrounding the regulation of guns.”

Seller Exploits Gun-Buyback Loophole With Help of 3D Printer

An anonymous man fires a 3D printed FGC-9 near Auburn, Al on Feb 10, 2022. He built the semi-automatic gun using an Ender 3 printer. In a recent event in New York with Mayor Eric Adams, President