THIS is the sub-machine gun seized in Bradford that a trial has been told was manufactured using a 3D printer.

The T&A has been given exclusive access to the photos of the FGC-9, 9mm Luger carbine that was passed round the jury at Sheffield Crown Court.

Jurors were told not to pull the trigger when handling the firearm seized by armed police from a BMW stopped on Rooley Lane.

Bradford Telegraph and Argus:

Two Bradford men are among three defendants on trial for offences relating to the manufacture and transfer of sub-machine guns made using a 3D printer.

The jury has heard that this firearm was recovered from Majeeb Rehman’s car shortly after 7pm on May 17 last year.

Leading counsel for the prosecution, Stephen Wood KC, yesterday requested: “Please don’t pull the trigger or move any of the parts.”

The firearm, handed to the jury by a police officer, had been cleaned and was perfectly safe to examine, they were assured.

Mr Wood pointed out the embossed motif on the gun, saying it could be seen more clearly than on a photograph. The court has heard that imprinted on the plastic is an image of an arm holding a curved sword with what appears to be blood dripping from the sword.

The jurors passed round one of eight Parabellum calibre cartridges recovered with the FGC-9, 9mm Luger carbine.

They also handled the ‘main carbine’ found in Christopher Gill’s attic at his address on Dick Lane, Bradford, and a lower receiver, a stock and three springs.

The trial judge, The Honourable Mr Justice Hilliard, then adjourned the hearing until Monday when the defence cases will begin.

One of the defendants, Sibusiso Moyo, was wasn’t well enough to take part in the trial until then.

Moyo, 41, of Elloughton Grove, Hull, and Gill, 35, plead not guilty to conspiracy with others unknown to manufacture prohibited firearms.

They and Rehman, 46, of Central Avenue, Little Horton, Bradford, deny conspiracy to transfer a prohibited firearm, an FGC-9 hybrid carbine sub-machine gun, to persons unknown on May 17, 2022, and possessing ammunition, eight 9mm Luger cartridges, without a firearms certificate.

Moyo and Gill also deny two charges of having a prohibited weapon for sale or transfer.

Moyo pleads not guilty to possession of an identity document with improper intention.

Mr Wood has told the jury that the loaded sub-machine gun seized by the police on Rooley Lane had been manufactured using a 3D printer. A trained firearms officer who inspected the gun had never seen such a weapon before.

Mr Wood alleges that Moyo and Gill were involved in the manufacture of firearms and Rehman was caught red-handed transporting one that was loaded with functioning bulleted cartridges.

Andre Horne, a scientist with expertise in the analysis of firearms and ballistics, concluded that most of the FGC-9, 9mm Luger carbine recovered from Rehman’s car had been produced on a 3D printer and some of its metal parts appeared to be homemade.

It was successfully test-fired using a 9mm cartridge.

The main part of the weapon found at Dick Lane was a 3D printed partially assembled 9mm Luger FGC-9 carbine. The other section was the lower receiver to a FGC-9 carbine. It too was the product of 3D printing, it is said.

The jury was told that Moyo was a DNA match for swabs taken from seized items.

Mr Wood alleged that he was ‘intimately involved in the manufacturing process.’ The trial continues.