We have a little more information on the handgun recovered by police when they arrested Luigi Mangione for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The police released a photograph of the weapon, below:
According to an article from ABC News:
"Officers located a black 3D-printed pistol and a black silencer," wrote Tyler Frye and Joseph Detwiler, members of the Altoona Police Department, in a criminal complaint filed in Blair County, Pennsylvania. They described the weapon as having "a metal slide and a plastic handle with a metal threaded barrel."
"The pistol had one loaded Glock magazine with six nine-millimeter full metal jacket rounds. There was also one loose nine-millimeter hollow point round," the officers wrote. "The silencer was also 3D printed."
A far cry from law enforcement's initial identification of the weapon used in the shooting as a B&T Station Six pistol (unless they did so to mislead the public). As of the time of the ABC News article, no ballistic test has yet been done.
It is amazing what resources can be pulled in to solve a murder of one of the elites versus what we see in a typical murder investigation. Even the FBI involved itself.
Unless it came out of a (very large, specialized, and expensive) SLS printer, that's not 3D-printed. Maybe a better photo could reveal more.
ReplyDeleteI think you are correct. What is interesting (and scary) in looking at stories on whether Mangione has a 3D printed gun is that the media can't seem to distinguish between "home-made" and "3D printed". That is, they seem to think that all home manufactured guns are 3D printed; or, at least, that is the way they write the stories and conflate the statistics.
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