Seized in the UK part of the "first in the country of printed weapons" were spare parts for a 3D printer

Sometimes the achievements of the police in pursuit of criminal world businessmen turn out to be just curiosity. So, the other day, the British police proudly announced that its employees seized the parts of a firearm printed on a 3D printer (as the police said, “the first such weapon in the UK”). The withdrawn parts were photographed and posted online, along with a police report. Its experts claimed that these parts are a shop and a trigger.

In the United States, it seems that it is not prohibited to print weapons if the owner of such weapons has carried out the printing procedure according to the law (with notification to the authorities, etc.) In the UK, such activities are prohibited and prosecuted. Accordingly, having identified, as it was supposed, illegal details, the police had already managed to name the case of the seizure of these details and the arrest of the person from whom the details were found to be “a serious achievement”.
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The news about all this quickly spread on all sorts of resources. Users of one of these resources, Theverge, have already written in the comments that the details received by the police have nothing to do with weapons. These are just spare parts for the Replicator 2 printer (which was also removed, along with these unfortunate details).

Accordingly, as aptly put it in the same note, "these details can only be killed if you swallow them."

Here are photos of the parts themselves, which the police reported with such pomp:





But the model of one of the parts , which is just a spare part for the printer (and below - a photo of another “weapon part”).





Via theverge