Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg showed reporters Tuesday how a $250 printer and a few dollars worth of parts can transform an AR-15 rifle into a DIY machine gun.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a renewed push for state lawmakers to pass stricter restrictions on 3D-printed guns and gun parts as part of the state budget
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The effort is supported by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg
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The state budget is due Wednesday<\/p>\n
Describing an evolving public safety threat, Bragg explained, \u201cWe\u2019ve moved from the iron pipeline to really the kitchen table pipeline.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bragg is calling on state lawmakers to pass stricter 3D gun laws along with the state budget.<\/p>\n
The top Manhattan prosecutor is supporting Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s effort to crack down on both 3D-printed ghost guns and 3D-printed auto sears.<\/p>\n
Banned across the United States but printable on a 3D machine, auto sears can be bright \u2014 as small as a Lego toy \u2014 and capable of converting handguns and rifles into fully automatic weapons.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s really just shaken up our understanding of guns in this country,\u201d Justin Wagner, the managing director of Every Town for Gun Safety, said during the briefing.<\/p>\n
Last week, Hochul stood in Albany with district attorneys and sheriffs from across the state to highlight the proposals she wants the legislature to pass.<\/p>\n
Hochul wants all 3D printers sold in New York state to have technology blocking them from creating ghost gun parts. She also wants to ban the sale and distribution of digital design files for printing 3D guns.<\/p>\n
In Manhattan, Bragg explained in 2017 that his office recovered just 17 3D-printed and ghost guns. By 2024 the number rose to 438.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors are dealing with constantly evolving technology and guns that can be printed without any kind of serial number.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t print counterfeit money. We don\u2019t let you do that,\u201d Bragg said. \u201cSo why would we let you print lethal guns?\u201d<\/p>\n
Bragg\u2019s office is actively prosecuting several cases with suspects accused of using 3D-printed guns, including the alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer, Luigi Mangione.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg showed reporters Tuesday how a $250 printer and a few dollars worth of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[109,387,25,3407,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,87,308,27],"class_list":["post-181563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-ayana-harry","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-public-safety","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}