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First Arrest In Japan For 3D-Printed Guns

Posted by timothy on from the illegal-objects-around-the-world dept.

PuceBaboon (469044) writes "Earlier today (Thursday), police in Kawasaki, Japan, arrested a man for violation of the firearms control law. He was apparently in possession of five, 3D-printed handguns, two of which were reportedly capable of firing normal rounds (although no actual bullets were found). The suspect was arrested after releasing video of the guns online. Japan has very strict gun control laws and, whether or not the suspect actually appeared in the alleged video, he may just have signed himself up for some serious porridge."

2 of 274 comments (clear)

  1. Hey Tim by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    A person is violating gun ownership laws and gets arrested.

    How is this news for /. ?

  2. Hurray for Japan by PvtVoid · · Score: 0, Troll

    Maybe this sort of thing contributes to why Japan had a murder rate of 0.4 per 100,000 people in 2009, compared to the U.S. rate of 4.4 (Afganistan, for the record, had a murder rate per 100,000 of 2.4 in 2008).

    It's long past time for the U.S. to stop setting firearms policy based on the paranoid fantasies of a bunch of brain-damaged rednecks.