Notebook Check – by Daniel Zlatev
Houston law enforcement officials report that the guns used by the 31-year-old Ronald Caballero to shoot three police officers last Thursday may have been upgraded from a semi-automatic to rapid-fire pistol using homebrew 3D-printing. Called “Glock switches,” these 3D-printed parts are used to turn untraceable “ghost guns” into fully automatic weapons, and a witness had tipped law enforcement prior to the shootout that Ronald Caballero is engaged in 3D-printing exactly such components. According to the Houston Police Department’s Special Investigations Unit, the incident developed at 2:45 p.m. on January 27: Continue reading “Proliferation of 3D-printed ‘ghost gun’ parts used for semi-automatic upgrades has Houston officers calling for better regulation”