[CottShop]

KKKUomo will immeidatley pass an emergeny ‘bill of necessity’ banning printers of any kind

[stuartcr]

Too bad ammunition can’t be made

[mnehring]

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.

[apillar]

I guarantee if they tried to ban it, every internet site across the entire world that shared files would instantly be flooded with the gun files, under dozens of names and configurations to avoid detection. Back a few years ago some judge tried it with the code to crack DVD encryption and the same thing happened

[humblegunner]

Baird’s blog poo has already been posted:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3016411/posts

[Jeff Head]

Damn...freedom is just so, well, so uncontrollable by government powermongers. They have to stamp it out wherever they can.

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.

America at the Crossroads of History

[Steely Tom]

Why the 3D Printed Firearm Will Be the Biggest Challenge Ever to the…..1st Amendment?

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.

[Steely Tom]

Oops I meant “18 April 2013.” Sorry About That.

[Wurlitzer]

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.