Untraceable Guns
West Midlands Police work with ballistics experts to find out whether a man with a haul of rifles in his bedroom has used a 3D printer to make potentially deadly weapons.
Firearms officers from West Midlands Police receive a tip-off about a local man with an unexpected arsenal of firearms. Inside a bedroom wardrobe are six guns, two of which they believe are 3D-printed assault weapons. Along with the guns, the police also find ammunition, a silencer and a 3D printer.
The 30-year-old resident is arrested and taken into custody. He has no criminal record and no obvious links to organised crime, leaving police teams to ask whether he is an extremist, an arms dealer or simply a gun collector, as he claims to be. Is he creating these guns to use them, and could he have used them already?
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An emerging threat
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Siobhan Finneran |
| Director | Jules Endersby |
| Director | Nick Gardner |
| Director | Maddie Henri |
| Director | Howard Holloway |
| Series Producer | Rhi MacDonald |
| Executive Producer | Sacha Baveystock |
| Executive Producer | Graeme McAulay |
| Executive Producer | Poonam Odedra |
| Production Company | Blast! Films Ltd |
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