This is genius plans, the ability to make an object unbannable because it is too readily available is the perfect answer to the gun grabbers and statists.
Now if I could print ammunition!
It would not surprise me if that came soon, at least to some extent. Printed "brass" may not be reusable for many years, but it could probably be designed to conform to the magazine and more especially the chamber well enough to hold together for one firing. Bullets are easy to cast. All we need are primers and powder, and those are (for now) the bottleneck. Still, I imagine a culture that can put recipes for Meth online and gradually improve them to where the explosion rate is acceptable to druggies can do the same for smokeless powders if the need arises.
>>This is genius plans, the ability to make an object unbannable because it is too readily available is the perfect answer to the gun grabbers and statists.
Or it supplies them with the motivation to make the bans even more heinous. These stories scare the hoplophobic sheeple into demanding even stronger action to keep “those guns” out of the hands of citizens.
If these geniuses were our friends, they’d be designing the Liberator pistol and carbine for the 21st century. Something that can be cranked out by the hundreds and distributed to the oppressed masses so they can go out and get all the real AR15 mags, ammo, and rifles that they need.
If they were real smart, they’d be designing a 3D printed modern flintlock with a fully enclosed pan for the days when ammmo and primers are banned, or one that uses a “government-approved” 22 LR as the primer in a black powder weapon if they choose to ban all centerfire ammo but leave us the “right” to do target practice and small game hunting.
And they would be keeping their mouths shut about their ability to make throw-away mags.
I am reminded of The Weapons Shops of Ishar by A.E. van Vogt. It was an influential sci-fi read for me in my teens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weapon_Shops_of_Isher