3-D printed ‘ghost guns’ pose new challenges for crime-scene investigators
New methods are needed to do ballistics on plastic guns — before the weapons gain popularity

An assembled plastic Washbear revolver sits inside a 3-D printer at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.
Megan Wolfe/Univ. of Mississippi
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