The high-profile murder of a US insurance company managing director on the street in New York may have been carried out with a 3D-printed gun. This is what the police report shows after the arrest of a suspect on Monday. in criminal complaint The case against the 26-year-old is said to be that a black pistol made from a 3D printer and a self-made silencer were found in his backpack. Both matched the murder weapons, a New York police spokesman said. Officially, the man has been described as a “person of strong interest.” According to media reports, he had fake identity documents which were linked to the murder.
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The years-long debate about “ghost weapons”
The search for the suspect involves the murder of the managing director of United Healthcare, a billion-dollar American insurance company. Brian Thompson was shot at close range near New York’s Times Square on Wednesday; The 50-year-old man later died in hospital. The crime, which was filmed by surveillance cameras, and the public search for the culprit made headlines around the world, but what was shocking was the extent of public anger toward the industry. The company had to turn off the comment function on many messages on the social network because the murder was welcomed too often. The suspect is now accused of illegal weapons possession, among other things. He was also said to have a handwritten document in which he accused insurance companies of greed for profit.
If the suspicion that the crime was committed using a self-made pistol from a 3D printer is confirmed, it could spark a new debate about “ghost guns” in the United States. Because they can be manufactured without serial numbers, they cannot be traced like traditional firearms. “Ghost weapons” have been discussed in the United States for more than ten years; In 2013, a weapons worker put the world’s first files online for 3D printing an entire weapon. More problematic are metal firearms that are manufactured entirely or largely using blueprints from the Internet. While former US President Trump had abandoned his opposition to the proliferation of such weapons, measures against it were tightened again under his successor Joe Biden. It is unclear what plans Trump had for his second term in office.
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