HOPEWELL, Va. (WRIC) — A 16-year-old is back home after he accidentally shot himself with a homemade gun on Saturday.
Hopewell police responded to the shooting at a home along Grant Street over the weekend.
Officers said the teen accidentally shot himself in the leg while making part of a handgun with a 3D printer in his bedroom. He was making a glock-style pistol using spare parts for the top half. The bottom half of the gun was made from the 3D printer, according to police.
Lieutenant Cheyenne Casale said the teen bought the 3D printer himself and his parents weren’t aware he was building the gun.
Before this incident, Casale said he wasn’t familiar with people building handguns with 3D printers.
“It’s a fairly new issue that police are dealing with now,” Casale said. “This is the first I’ve come across or the agency for that matter.”
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