Posted on 08/01/2018 8:37:33 AM PDT by rktman
For days, the liberal media have been experiencing a Chernobyl-level meltdown about a Texas company releasing online instructions for 3D printing plastic weapons that actually fire real bullets. Of course, none of them did their homework and spewed inaccurate nonsense in an effort to stoke public fear of guns. After a liberal judge in Seattle blocked the release on Tuesday, the broadcast networks sang their praises with one network touting Democrats who said President Trump had blood on his hands.
[Warning: The level of pure ignorance you’re about to be exposed to may be hazardous to your health]
“Let's turn now to a late development in the race to stop what some fear is the next gun threat: plastic weapons,” announced anchor Lester Holt during NBC Nightly News. “And tonight, a federal judge has just blocked a release of blueprints for the guns after several states took legal action to stop their release.”
The case in question involved gun rights advocate Cody Wilson and his company Defense Distributed. NBC reporter Tom Costello suggested it was the Trump administration that would allow 3D printed guns on the street “after the Obama administration sued to block [Wilson].” Bottom line, the blueprints to build firearms have been easily available online for years and Wilson’s case was about the international sale of firearms since the blueprints were online.
As National Review’s David French expertly noted on Tuesday, “The Obama administration justified its decision to prevent the plaintiffs from posting the files on the grounds that the files would be available for international download and international use.” He also noted that the Fifth Circuit Court’s ruling on the case found that printing firearms “is legal for United States citizens and will remain legal for United States citizens regardless of the outcome of this case.”
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Who would buy an expensive 3D printer to make a plastic gun that only fired 2 or 3 times?
So they can shoot down airplanes and stuff.
And it costs more than you make in a month
The news media has always tried to create hysteria over something they know nothing about.
Remember the hype over the “Zinc and Aluminum framed Saturday Night Specials” from the 1970s, then it was the “Plastic Glocks” of the 1980s.
Yeah, my neighbors been getting my SS check apparently. LOL!
Because affordable printers that can produce the accuracy needed and plastic is not a suitable material, we need to wait for affordable printers that can replicate the accuracy of commercial and gunsmith made weapons AND a non-ferrous metal suitable for home 3D printers become available, there is no threat from home 3D printers.
Rant and rave, rant and rave. The plans are on the Internet. Too late, you lose. Pass all the laws you want, each will be meaningless. The plans are available to the world via the Internet.
The truly smart folks have already realized this and have gone on to other, much more important things.
A law was passed some time ago outlawing non-detectable guns.
The real “threat” will come from folks using metal 3-D printers to make guns. I have read those printers run 10K and up for a home version. I doubt every homeboy will have one.
Yeah, like 30 years ago when the first plastic Glocks started showing up. These people are truly idiots. But dangerous ones.
“The real “threat” will come from folks using metal 3-D printers to make guns. I have read those printers run 10K and up for a home version. I doubt every homeboy will have one”
2. Even then, “homeboys” will not spend the money to manufacture guns, when it is cheaper and FAR easier to do what they have been doing for hundreds of years: steal them.
What I've been saying. Punks can easily obtain real working guns. 3D printed guns are not worth the effort and long wait to print, work poorly, and simply to difficult to make. Far easier to obtain a real gun, despite laws on the books. Punks will always get them and illegally carry them despite laws.
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