Europe

8484 readers

1 users here now

News/Interesting Stories/Beautiful Pictures from Europe 🇪🇺

(Current banner: Thunder mountain, Germany, 🇩🇪 ) Feel free to post submissions for banner pictures

Rules

(This list is obviously incomplete, but it will get expanded when necessary)

Be nice to each other (e.g. No direct insults against each other);
No racism, antisemitism, dehumanisation of minorities or glorification of National Socialism allowed;
No posts linking to mis-information funded by foreign states or billionaires.

Also check out !yurop@lemm.ee

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

poVoq@slrpnk.net

Far-right terror plot suspects printed 3D guns to ignite Finland 'race war' (www.euronews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by misk@lemm.ee to c/europe@feddit.de

6 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Police in Finland say they've stopped a far-right terror plot that would have used 3D printed weapons in an attack aimed at leading to the "collapse of society" in a race war.

The National Bureau of Investigation says their initial probe was just looking into a simple firearms offense, but they soon realised there was a bigger issue involving at least four men with links to the far-right.

Local media reports that one of the men in custody had been a municipal election candidate for the Finns Party, which is one of the four parties which makes up the Nordic nation's coalition government.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Man. People just don't realize how easy it is to make firearms. I'm not even talking about 3d printing. You can make a gun in a day or two with a machine shop, and it'll be serviceable

If you don't mind crappy guns, you can make single shot stuff in an hour or two that won't blow up in your hands.

[–] tetha@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

It's a pretty scary rabbit hole to go into. People have used pretty simple machine shops and fairly accessible information to build small caliber automatic weapons and it didn't even take that long. A week or two of full time work between testing and iterating. Not reliable, or safe, but certainly dangerous.