Teen admits to producing powerful explosive, gun, stimulants

A 19-year-old male admitted Monday in a Nagoya district court to producing a 3D-printed gun, stimulants and a highly powerful explosive often used in terror attacks.The former university student, whose name is being withheld because he is a minor, produced triacetone triperoxide, known as TATP, at his home in Nagoya in December 2016, according to an indictment.The explosive was a type used in a number of Islamic State-linked terror attacks including in Paris in 2015 and Brussels in 2016.He is additionally charged with synthesizing stimulants in August 2017 in conspiracy with an 18-year-old …READ FULL ARTICLE