OH YEAH THEYRE TALKING ABOUT IT NOW
Please do not remove mods, really sorry for the Google AMP link, but this is a “subscribers only” blocked article on CNN that for some reason AMP just straight up bypasses and opens fine.
Direct link: https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/10/us/jury-nullification-luigi-mangione-defense/index.html.
Edit 1: updated title, CNN changed it on me
As someone who ran a 3D print farm, even with the latest 3D printers, you will have a ton of trouble printing a ghost gun. The amount of infill, the type of nozzle, the heat and the materials all play a role in making a successful print.
I ran a print farm for a couple of years before closing shop during the pandemic. Even with my knowledge, I would have trouble printing a successful ghost gun.
Exactly. There’s a huge prototyping process. I would expect to make, at an absolute minimum, a dozen prototype stages. And each will take hours to print. This is not some covert process you’re doing in a hostel or homeless shelter. And even if you have access to a makerspace, they’re going to notice and immediately kick you out. No maker space wants that kind of heat on them. And you’ll also need access to a firing range that will let you test your sketchy home-made gun there. And again, no gun range wants that type of liability.
So again, I ask. Where is Luigi’s workshop? Unless you have an owned or rented space, that only you have access to, it is virtually impossible to make a ghost gun without someone finding out.
You almost need to own or rent a large piece of rural land if you want to actually do this.
Tolerances get wonky the larger the thing is and even wonkier when you scale on infill. The more material in your infill, you start to need an enclosed printer which brings in the element of environment.
I don’t know if Luigi did it, but the state and feds gotta come up with a whole lot of evidence for a murder 1 conviction.