The Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit Provincial Forensic Firearms Lab manager Daisy Wong points to a Songbird firearm, which was almost entirely made from a 3D printer. What the team has found is that 50 per cent of them are “failed jobs,” which have flaws and can pose structural integrity issues, but the rest are operable as is. If they can, then it’s likely a prosecutable offence.

Wong is part of a team that takes the seized items, assesses them and determines if they can readily be made into a firearm. “It really didn’t take our team long to figure out how to print from the online sources,” noted Daisy Wong, lab manager with CFSEU’s Provincial Forensic Firearms Lab. CFSEU had several 3D-printed guns on display, along with a 3D printing in progress for the frame for a Glock 26. Police have dubbed them privately made firearms, but plans can also include 3D-printed “brass” knuckles, knives and grenades. The worst-case scenario is the child getting hurt.” “Because it’s so new and we’re still learning ourselves the risks and dangers to it, this is an extraordinary step that we’re taking to make sure our children don’t find themselves in a situation and parents don’t find themselves in a situation that they’re having to come to a police station and bring their child along. Baltej Dhillon, program manager for CFSEU’s crime guns investigative and intelligence group. “You can literally go on to the internet and Google 3D printing schematics and plans, and unless there’s oversight in visibility of what is being done, there is a risk that our children might be printing things that we wouldn’t want them to have,” explained Staff Sgt. That was the message from the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit Tuesday (July 11) warning the public, parents and their children of the dangers of 3D printers. If you can Google, you can get the schematics to create a 3D-printed firearm or weapon, says B.C.’s anti-gang police agency. On the right was a 3D printer actively making the frame for a Glock 26. The Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit Provincial Forensic Firearms Lab manager Daisy Wong explaining the detail of 3D-printed firearms during a media briefing Tuesday (July 11, 2023) warning the public, parents and their children of the dangers of 3D printers.

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