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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Benedict Tetzlaff-Deas

Illegal arms dealers used 3D printers to make machine guns to sell on to criminal gangs

Two wannabe arms dealers have been jailed after police uncovered their plot to sell on guns they had made at home using a 3D printer.

Sibusiso Moyo and Christopher Gill were sentenced today to more than 30 years between them for illegally manufacturing firearms in what is thought to be the first prosecution of its kind.

Officers discovered DIY guns alongside bullets and other gun-making equipment in a dramatic swoop on 46-year-old associate Majeed Rehman's BMW on May 17 last year.

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