Texas Man Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison for 3-D Gun

Texas Man Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison for 3-D Gun
An AR-15 created from a 3-D printer. Courtesy of Defense Distributed via Reuters
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GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas—A Texas man has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison after police found him in the woods with a partially 3-D printed AR-15 rifle and a list of federal lawmakers’ addresses in his backpack.

Eric McGinnis was convicted last summer of possessing an unregistered short-barreled rifle. He also was found guilty of unlawfully possessing ammunition while subject to an active protective order that had been issued because of a 2015 altercation with a girlfriend.