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Drag has been saying the gun was planted for months and got banned from [email protected] for it.
Where would the planted gun have come from? It's a 3D printed gun. The police would have had to run off a similar model in the few days between the killing and Luigi's capture. If you're experienced with 3D printers and already have a couple printers, you could probably pull that off, but that's not the police. I seriously doubt they have people setup for something like that, and institutional inertial would prevent them from spinning it up in the short time required. The learning curve alone would prevent them from having the time.
Nor can they feasibly bring in outside help. "We need you to make a 3D printed gun for us". What do the police need with a 3D printed gun that happens to match the one the shooter used?
Regardless, there's a chain of evidence issue here. That could well destroy the case no matter if it was planted or not.
Is it possible police found the gun nearby the shooting, but never made the evidence public?
I ask because I don't know the intricacies or timeline of the shooting/hunt/arrest/detainment.
Publicising that "someone just killed a CEO with a 3d printed gun, you found the gun and you have no further evidence" might inspire a lot of copycats.