Man Makes $21k Selling 3D-Printed Guns in Buyback Program

Y’all, I’m starting to rethink my stance against gun buybacks.

I know how it sounds, but hear me out– or, rather, hear out this MFing hero “Kem,” who says he made $21,000 by 3D-printing gun parts and selling them to the government of New York in a “buyback” program.

[Kem] . . . used a $200 3D printer to print the lower receivers and drove over 6 hours [to Utica] to sell them back to the police.

When Kem arrived, he told officers he had 110 lower receivers to turn in and had to negotiate a price for the homemade parts, which are considered a firearm by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.

Eventually, officials agreed to give him $21,000 in gift cards.

“And it ended with the guy and a lady from the budget office finally coming around with the 42 gift cards and counting them in front of me,” Kem told the news station. “$21,000 in $500 gift cards.”

What a LEGEND. Dude paid for his 3D printer 10 times over and got one over on the government in the process. That’s the kind of stuff dreams are made of– especially after it pissed off all the right people.

A spokesperson for New York Attorney General Letitia James blasted Kem for taking advantage of the gun buyback event, which was sponsored by her office.

“It’s shameful that this individual exploited a program that has successfully taken thousands of guns off the streets to protect our communities from gun violence. We have partnered with local police throughout the state to recover more than 3,500 guns, and one individual’s greedy behavior won’t tarnish our work to promote public safety. We have adjusted our policies to ensure that no one can exploit this program again for personal gain,” the statement said.

Cry harder, Dems. If your program is so poorly designed (to say nothing of its unconstitutionality) that one lone man can abuse it for $21,000, it deserves to be abused. It should be beaten with a rubber hose.

Kem has my eternal respect for doing exactly that. I don’t believe in taxation, but those gift cards are one thing I wouldn’t mind them paying for.