Here’s why restrictions on 3D guns would violate the First Amendment as well as the Second

Fox News ^ | July 31, 2018 | John R. Lott, Jr.

[rogerantone1]

Gun control advocates don’t just have a problem with the Second Amendment – they also have real problems with the First Amendment. In an era when people can use 3D metal printers to make guns, does the First Amendment protect a book detailing a gun-manufacturing process – but not a computer file that does the same thing?

[TStro]

The idiots who are against the printing of the receiver component don’t realize you still need a metal barrel, slide, springs, firing pin, and dozens of other metal miscellaneous parts. You can alternatively buy a 95% AR which just needs a little drilling and tapping, a better choice, as I wouldn’t trust plastic components to stand up to the shock it will be subjected to.

[usconservative]

In an era when people can use 3D metal printers to make guns, does the First Amendment protect a book detailing a gun-manufacturing process – but not a computer file that does the same thing?

You're being silly! No one actually reads anything anymore. At least not beyond a headline.

[niteowl77]

The MSM/Left/DS is recycling most of the same rhetoric/"logic" they used back when they first heard about a "plastic" gun from Austria. IF the Uniparty Pubs and the "beltway gun rights" people don't preemptively surrender, this is just more 2018 election bull excrement being thrown at the wall.

Mr. niteowl77

[BuffaloJack]

I’m a strong advocate of the First and Second Amendments and I fully support gun ownershship and use.
I’ve also made and used lots of 3D printed parts, both plastic and metal.
You couldn’t pay me enough to fire a printed firearm. I’m also an advocate for Life and I wouldn’t shoot one of these, because I’ve seen too many printed parts fail.

[Flintlock]

Good grief!!

Has EVERYBODY forgotten the 1950’s and that dreaded ‘ZIP GUN’??
.22 LR, .32, or even .38 Spl and .45ACP could be rather easily made from plumbing parts from the local hardware store. All you would need is a file, drill, nail and some wood scraps to make a SAFE and RELIABLE shooter.
(Not to mention the EVEN easier 12ga zip SHOTGUN.......)

The printed plastic crap??
I wouldn’t be caught dead (OR MAIMED) with one.

[antidisestablishment]

The plastic guns are invisible. You can get on a plane with them and even walk through walls if you have one in your pocket! Turn on the TV and get educated, man. Plastic guns, ghost guns, 3D guns, cop-killer bullets, silencers, million round clips, body armor...

WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Gun control advocates don’t just have a problem with the Second Amendment – they also have real problems with the First Amendment.

Journalists advocate for the interpretation of “the press” in the First Amendment as meaning - effectively - the Associated Press and its membership. That amounts to a claim that “the press” is either a title of nobility or an authoritative priesthood - the former expressly abolished in the text of the Constitution, the latter eschewed by the First Amendment itself.

The First Amendment is properly understood as protecting the right of the people to spend their own money for the purpose of deploying technology (the printing press in the Eighteenth Century, electronic communications media as well, in the Twenty First) to promote their religious, political - or other - opinions and ideas. Anyone has the right to buy a printing press, without getting a government permit for it. Being in good standing with the Associated Press is not a requirement.

[2harddrive]

The link for Free 3D printable gun blueprints is:
www.codeisfreespeech.com

I have no printer, but I downloaded all 10 to show support for the First Amendment

[Vaduz]

Second Amendment has nothing to do with the matter undetectable gun were outlawed in 1988 30 years ago argument dead.