Student Who Used 3D Printer to Make Guns Is Convicted in UK Legal First
19th June 2019
In the first case of its kind Tendai Muswere admitted using the printer to make a revolver and a handgun out of plastic resin at his London flat.
The 26-year-old Zimbabwean national told police he had made the firearms to use as props in a film project for his course at London South Bank University.
Officers came across the 3D printed component parts for the guns while searching his flat for drugs in October 2017, following a tip-off that he was growing cannabis at home.
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Scotland Yard said it feared the guns could have fallen into the hands of serious criminals.
Fortunately, this guy wasn’t a serious criminal.
The admission standards at ‘London South Bank University’ don’t seem to be very high.