Posted on 05/07/2013 9:58:34 AM PDT by EveningStar
Yesterday when I saw the picture of the first fully 3D printed gun (I realize the firing pin is a nail and was not printed) I almost wept for joy. This is a first important step away from the dominance of the state over their citizens in many parts of the world. Americans enjoy the protection of Second Amendment, but many places that purport to be free countries have banned all guns outright or have made ownership so restrictive that getting a firearm is almost impossible. Other parts of the world are not so free as even that. Firearm ownership for people in places like China or North Korea could mean the death penalty. This new technology makes it possible for anyone anywhere with access to a certain level of technology to take the power of the state and place it into the hands of the people. The 3D printed gun is either the beginning of the end to those repressive regimes or the beginning of one of the largest and most sweeping crack down on civil rights in the past fifty years.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefreehold.us ...
KKKUomo will immeidatley pass an emergeny ‘bill of necessity’ banning printers of any kind
Too bad ammunition can’t be made
I think the technology is amazing but I am also concerned about how our government is looking at it.
Now, we are approaching the point in which anyone can produce almost anything outside big brother’s regulations. (we aren’t there yet but I can see it within the next few decades).
Knowing how the government operates, I can predict some major over-reactions, such as criminalizing ownership of restricted plans (such as plans for this gun or magazines), restricting the printing devices and components (this is a tough one as there are ‘open source’ printers available now and people can print the parts to make new printers for each other- not to mention the raw material is just plastic), criminalizing printing of parts that interfere with established manufacturers (such as printing a replacement trim piece for your car because you are taking away from an existing company that makes it).
Uncharted territory that reminds me of the late 90s with the Internet.
It could also serve as a potential economic boom like the internet did.
Baird’s blog poo has already been posted:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3016411/posts
You are thinking too conventionally. Ever hear of a coil gun? People already make these in their garage that produces similar results to a .22 or .380. I can see technology such as 3D printing thriving for this type of firearm because you don't have to have the high tolerances and specifications to handle combustion. The electronics can be gathered from scraps such as disposable cameras (most of the parts in the instructions at that link are from cameras).
Yup - and that's where the First Amendment comes in.
In this case, it is conventional.
Oops. I just punched abuse on my own thread.
We generally don’t consider it duplicate if more than 4 hours have gone by. Especially if there is activity on the thread.
But the only way freedom can really be controlled is through the moral conscience and foundation of those who are free. That way it remains freedom...the government powermongers always want to turn it into tyranny.
I think my kids and I just found our summer project :) Love Instructables...not sure how I missed this one.
It happens.
I always try to search, but sometimes I miss things. This isn’t the first time I’ve punched abuse on one of my own posts.
That one is pretty simple but there is a link on that page to a lit of different plans including some pretty powerful ones.
I wouldn’t have said anything if it weren’t Baird,
he who so gleefully talked trash about me on Facebook.
Ol' Steely had this point nailed back on 18 April 2003:
I'll tell you what's inevitable, Ms. Pelosi: anyone, anywhere in the United States, will be able to download a complete, working machine gun from the internet, built in their basement on a machine the size of a filing cabinet if not smaller.Ditto for ammunition and magazines.
And if you want to stop that, you'll have to stop the transmission of data... free speech, in other words.
At that point, you and your corrupt cohorts will be pushing uphill against the first two amendments of the Constitution.
Oops I meant “18 April 2013.” Sorry About That.
If we continue to allow infringement on a right guaranteed by the unambiguous words “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED” then we have ourselves as much to blame as the vermin in government in their continuing quest to be dominant in their rule over us.
In case anyone has forgotten (thanks to public schools) the Feds derive their limited powers from us. If we do not agree to give them these powers they are not to have them.
No honest person can challenge what I have written but we do not have enough people of courage, character, conviction to enforce what the Founders risked everything to give us.
It would seem a whole lot of chlorine needs to be poured into the politician, judicial, media, public school... gene pool.
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