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Homemade Guns: A 3D Print for Disaster?

Japan has some of the world’s strictest gun laws. There are only three guns for every 1,000 Japanese citizens. Yet during a campaign event in Nara on July 8, a man wielding two metal barrels strapped together with electrical tape walked up within a couple of meters of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and shot him in the back. A few hours later, Abe was pronounced dead.

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