If it is later revealed that “a pistol was also found” isn’t true, I will be surprised by the usual amount.
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As we say in germany: “Ich kann gar nicht so viel fressen wie ich k… möchte” (roughly “I can’t even gobble down enough food as I’d like to puke out”)
I’ve a steel tube, industrial strength spring, nails, nuts, bolts, washers and fertililizer. So I’m I building a pipe bomb or spring loaded shotgun shell tube.
Why didn’t they ask the guys in the hacker space what they thought. Might of educated their forensic lab techs
Fear sells newspapers and increased control. I am generally pro law and order but ignorance such as this does not inspire confidence.
I would expect as soon as the first 3D printed gun or other bad thing was printed, a reasonably competent organization would have circulated photos of components rather than relying on their officers to make guesses.
@Nigel_Dickinson - My reading of the original release is that it hadn’t even gotten to the forensic techs yet. They totally jumped the gun on that one! 
@Andrew_Plumb for that joke you should be shot 
@foosel But I’m just giving the community the ammo it needs to shoot down these 3dp myths! duck’n’run
@Andrew_Plumb Well, in that case I’ll cease the friendly fire
@Nigel_Dickinson - …also, choose your words carefully when putting that sort of offer/statement out there. See Byron Sonne’s experience as a cautionary tale of how these sorts of things can spiral out of control: https://github.com/colah/ByronTrialNotes
@Andrew_Plumb Lol I’ve said it but got no garage or tubing. They can call on me. And I’d point out that reasonable suspicion is needed.
What the police have done is tainted a court case if the parts are a gun.
@Andrew_Hodel monarchy, and class warfare, and state-church separation and… I am sorry to say, but england has been dysfunctional so long it looks from the outside “a failed state with a Orwellian PR army working for the crown and associated friendly business interests”…
And having GCHQ listening everybody only gives an imperial ring to it…
@Andrew_Hodel Good points! Although I blame it to the rain.
Ignorance is bliss? Those parts are obviously harmless parts. Like a cop arresting a tech savvy kid for hacking in the early years of computers.
People seem to be forgetting that these were found during a police raid. They’re probably not just showing up because they heard this guy had a MakerBot (though some might argue that buying one of them is a crime).
Unless you know that the pictures cannot be part of a 3D printed gun, saying anything more than that they might just be printer upgrades is speculation - just like the police are (may be) doing…
@foosel G+ offered to translate that automatically for me, but you left out the last word 
@Dave_Durant the police think its a gun that’s from the press release. So until it is proved you don’t say a word. Nothing like egg on your face if its a machine upgrade.
And releasing an unproven story makes the police look like bigger incompetents than normal.
An American claiming the UK looks like a failed state from the outside… My god, the irony is palpable.
@Jasper_Janssen Me an American? Go look at my timeline. I’m a Portuguese and i live in a failed state, therefore i think i can recognize it when i look at one…
My apologies. I jumped to conclusions.
Now that is ironic. 