{"id":69109,"date":"2025-10-10T02:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T02:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/69109\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T02:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T02:49:08","slug":"police-seize-3d-printed-homemade-guns-with-ammo-in-auckland-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/69109\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seize 3D-printed, homemade guns with ammo in Auckland raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested and several 3D-printed and homemade guns seized after a police raid in Auckland&#8217;s Henderson yesterday.  <\/p>\n<p>A search of the property on Kingsdale Rd was carried out with the Armed Offenders Squad after police received information about potential firearms.  <\/p>\n<p>Detective Senior Sergeant Josh Lautogo said police made &#8220;quick work&#8221; in the raid, taking a person into custody.  <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/some-of-the-3d-printed-and-homemade-guns-seized-by-police-in-VKD4H5NHXFA6BPNB3XR4ZPFD3M.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the 3D-printed and homemade guns seized by police in Henderson. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Some of the 3D-printed and homemade guns seized by police in Henderson.  (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>Police found several 3D-printed and homemade guns, as well as ammunition, at the address.  <\/p>\n<p>A 20-year-old man was arrested and was due to appear in Wait\u0101kere District Court on October 13, charged with seven counts of unlawful possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a great result from our team, who demonstrated outstanding capability in identifying a high-risk arms supplier,&#8221; Lautogo said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir work continues to make a significant impact in disrupting organised criminal networks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested and several 3D-printed and homemade guns seized after a police raid in Auckland&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-69109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}