Police seized over a dozen 3D printed weapon frames and items displaying Nazi symbols in the first raid of a 3D printed firearm workshop in Spain. Spanish law enforcement revealed the details of a raid on an illegal 3D-printed gun manufacturing workshop on Sunday, the first of its kind found in Spain. According to a press release from the Spanish National Police, the raid originally occurred on September 14th of last year on the island of Tenerife, but was ordered to be kept under wraps by the investigating court. The alleged owner of the factory—an unnamed Spanish male—was also arrested. Video footage of the raid posted on the official Twitter account of the National Police appears to show a 3D printer still in the process of printing the frame of a firearm. It also shows an officer disassembling a 3-D printed pistol and a table filled with various parts, firearms, and accessories. In total, Spanish law enforcement reported finding, among other things, two 3D printers, 19 printed handgun frames, nine magazines, various weapon parts, as well as weapons: a carbine with a scope, five knives, a machete, and a katana were all recovered. Furthermore, they found 30 manuals containing instructions on how to 3D print firearms and create home-made explosives, along with chemicals commonly used to manufacture them, such as nitrate.
Police also found two flags and a gun holster featuring neo-Nazi symbols. In a press release, law enforcement pointed to 3D printing technology as potentially enabling deadly crimes, citing a 2019 terrorist attack on a synagogue in Germany by a far-right neo-Nazi where the shooter used a 3D printed gun and had manufactured several more.
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