Southern Illinois man convicted in federal case involving 3D-printed guns

S. Illinois man federally convicted of unlawful gun making

A federal jury recently found a Harrisburg man guilty of five gun-related charges tied to what prosecutors described as a small-scale gun manufacturing operation run from his southern Illinois home that included guns made with a 3D printer.

Southern Illinois man convicted in federal case involving 3D-printed guns

A federal jury this week found a Harrisburg man guilty of five gun-related charges tied to what prosecutors described as a small-scale gun manufacturing operation run from his southern Illinois home that included guns made with a 3D printer.   During a May 2024 search of property in Harrisburg belonging to Yaroslav Vishnevski and his then-wife, federal agents seized two unregistered homemade short-barreled rifles, silencers and two additional mo…