Posted on 07/31/2018 8:25:29 AM PDT by Simon Green
The former “My Name is Earl” actress and current gun control activist denounced the increased availability of 3-D printed gun files this week.
In an opinion piece for CNN entitled, “A 3D printed gun is downloadable death” and a follow-up Anderson Cooper interview, Milano argued that public safety is at risk due to the recent settlement with Cody Wilson’s Defense Distributed Group in which the federal government granted an exception in State Department arms control regulations to allow the files to go live to a broader audience.
“It is not hyperbole to say that this could mean the end of our ability to have meaningful gun violence prevention in America,” said Milano, who recently joined a group called NoRA whose aim it is to protest the National Rifle Association along with the gun industry.
Holding that 3D printers capable of producing a firearm could be purchased for $1,000 and Wilson’s Liberator single-shot handgun printed for as little as $25 worth of plastic, the 46-year-old actress painted a picture of terrorists and felons easily making their own firearms. “Imagine the damage one of these guns, even if it was only capable of firing one shot, could do aboard a plane,” she said. “Or in a government office. Or in your child’s classroom.”
It should be noted that in 2016 screeners with the U.S. Transportation Security Administration were able to detect and intercept a 3-D printed handgun at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport in carry-on luggage with then-existing technology. The agency is currently rolling out advanced new computed tomography scanners in select airports that use sophisticated algorithms to aid in detection of explosives and weapons and are capable of creating “a 3-D image that can be viewed and rotated on three axes for thorough visual image analysis by a TSA officer.”
Further, current federal regulation requires all firearms produced in the U.S. be compliant with the Undetectable Firearms Act, a 1988 mandate that requires at least 3.7-ounces of steel content.
Besides Milano, other anti-gun advocates were outspoken on similar talking points about 3-D guns as well, with Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg tweeting, “Hope y’all are ready to get searched considering 3-D printed guns cannot be detected by a metal detector. The real question is how many terrorist attacks are going to happen with 3D printed guns until Congress realizes their mistake.”
Fred Guttenberg, the father of late Stoneman Douglas student Jaime Guttenberg, railed in all-caps on social media that the settlement on 3-D guns was not needed in a legal fight he painted the federal government as winning and will “put Americans at risk on airplanes, in schools, in public buildings that rely on detection.”
This tramp has been weaseling herself into the news lately.
she must be looking at all the attention her kooky co-star Rose McGowan has been getting and decided to jump into the action.
I read somewhere that milano is also hurting for cash..
Ever watch Charmed?
I often wondered if her two boobs drew their own separate paychecks.
Then get you a gun, Alyssa.
Good.
3D printed technology is scaring the bejesus of the gun grabbers.
People can make their own gun and bullets and that will drive the cost down.
It will make government regulation of the gun industry obsolete.
The goal of an armed citizenry is now more within reach than ever.
Love it!
Holding that 3D printers capable of producing a firearm could be purchased for $1,000 and Wilson’s Liberator single-shot handgun printed for as little as $25 worth of plastic.
Thanks for the tip!
Printed handguns is nothing compared to what a bright teen with an amatuer CNC milling machine can do.
She’s only concerned about getting her broke-ass name into the media..
Unless you can download printing instructions for ammo, the gun is useless.
In any case, the problem is people, not weapons.
Upper right corner of the Hot/Crazy Matrix.
For those of us without gated community is, armed guards and bodyguards, it is downloadable defense.
“Alyssa Milano: 3-D gun tech is ‘downloadable death’”
So are old episodes of “Whose the Boss” and “Charmed”.
Somebody here who knows more html code than I do needs to upload that “I wish these were brains” picture to use as a stand in for this Alyssa airhead.
“3D printed technology is scaring the bejesus of the gun grabbers.”
No it’s not. It’s just the crisis du jour. Look up home made guns and look at the pictures. Any half assed machinist can make a much better, more durable, cheaper home made gun than a 3D printer can. This is just more hysterical bull from the left.
I wonder how young she was when Harvey got to her. Actually, I don’t want to know.
This from the woman who is “ box office poison”.
Yes, she continues to prove the axiom that there is an inverse relationship between cup and brain size.
Alyssa is a glittering jewel of a colossus of ignorance.
3D printing is here to stay - whether she likes it or not.
That pic was about 15 years and 30 pounds ago.
I know, but I wanted a hot pic...
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