Remember one month ago Italian police seized an extremely dangerous pla letter opener and a teenager's printer?
They're back
First they seized "a factory" of PLA knuckles: https://www.ildolomiti.it/cronaca/2026/un-15enne-e-un-13enne-producevano-tirapugni-con-le-stampanti-3d-della-scuola-hanno-anche-minacciato-un-compagno-che-voleva-denunciarli (a 13 years old kid printed multiple copies with the school's printer)
Now they went to the home of another middle schooler to seize his printer because he printed a prop from assassin's Creed: https://www.rainews.it/tgr/bolzano/articoli/2026/02/lame-stampate-in-3d-sequestrate-in-una-scuola-di-bolzano-eb67732d-a7a1-4eac-842b-a0bf7a87e937.html
I feel much safer now that those factories of dangerous weapons are now seized
How do they know about these prints?
First article says a peer reported them after being threatened
The article writes as the two kids were printing the toys using the school 3d printer, a third saw what they were doing and wanted to report them, at that point they threatened him
That is refreshingly non-fascist
yeah its just old school snitch bitch action
There's nothing wrong with snitching if someone is unduly threatening you.
The article actually said the kid was threatened because wanted to snitch
Still wrong to threaten them. I don't know about the Italian context but elsewhere there's been lots LF news about kids killing or maiming people
Of course. But seizing 3D printers will do absolutely nothing to help with that.
I mean, they seized the printers the kids used to make the weapons as evidence in the investigation, thats just how that works and has nothing to do with the fact that they're 3d printers specifically. if they were using any kind of tool or material to produce the weapons, those tools would be seized as part of regular evidence collection.
Do Italian police have ridiculously over inflated budget and need to make it look like they're doing something? Because this really doesn't seem like a situation that needed police intervention.