A federal grand jury has indicted an Evansville man accused of using a 3D printer to make machine gun parts. WNIN’s John Gibson has details:
The grand jury returned an indictment charging 39-year-old Marquel Payne with one count of possession of a firearm as a convicted felon and one count of possession of a machine gun.
Evansville Police say officers found Payne with a 3D printer and 60 plastic machine gun conversion devices.
Police also say they found a personally made handgun, also known as a “ghost gun” due to its lack of any traceable serial number, an AR-15 rifle, a 3D printed firearm silencer, and 9mm caliber ammunition.
Machine gun conversion devices -- sometimes called “Glock switches” -- convert ordinary semiautomatic firearms into fully automatic machine guns.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office says at the time of his arrest, Payne had been previously convicted of numerous felonies, including escape, carrying a handgun without a license, and criminal recklessness while armed with a deadly weapon.