Judge Blocks Release of 3D Gun Blueprints
31st July 2018
You knew it had to happen.
David French: A Federal Judge Launches a Futile, Unconstitutional Effort to Block Blueprints for 3D-Printed Guns
31st July 2018
You knew it had to happen.
David French: A Federal Judge Launches a Futile, Unconstitutional Effort to Block Blueprints for 3D-Printed Guns
August 1st, 2018 at 09:06
This is NOT the first time that the government has tried to block 3D printing.
Idiots!
If machines are capable of making a tool – e.g., a gun – then there’s nothing you can do to stop that. Blocking the files, or tracing them, or scrambling them, or whatever will have absolutely no effect except to stir up lots of attention by the only institution dumber than the government – the Media.
People have produced “zip guns” from things you can find in a typical hardware store or junk yard since the time guns were invented. They’ve never been a serious factor in crime because, quite honestly, most criminals can’t make a gun better than what Colt or Smith & Wesson produces.
The big “Ghost Gun” thing is nothing more than a resurrection of the brain-dead stupid pronouncements by Chuckie Schumer about the Glock pistol being undetectable back in the 1980’s. (Again, stupid politician speaks to even more stupid media which adds lots more adjectives and adverbs to blow it so far out of proportion so that members of the dumbed-down public start to believe it as well. (They also believe in Bigfoot and Elvis sightings, so don’t give them much credit even without the hype.) Chuckie managed to get promoted from minor-league Congress-slug to Senator-for-life on the basis of his speeches. Also, Chuckie managed to secure a constant flow of $MM from the anti-2A lobby for his campaign chest. The fact that 90% of the parts of a Glock are metal – including bullets, springs, barrel, etc. – and thus CLEARLY showed up on airport xray scans meant absolutely nothing to the media. Truth is boring and it doesn’t sell advertising time. Disasters, impeding doom, tragedy, shocking details, and fuzzy photos of Elvis eating a cheeseburger at a truckstop all mean top dollar for the network’s douche commercials.
Even with all that, there is something totally unforgiveable about the way the government and the media do not understand anything about current technology. Is that because I was a science major instead of journalism (all drunks, as I remember) or political science (kids with money who needed a subject that didn’t require any work – half a step better than they PhysEd classes on volleyball coaching)? I fear that I have gone to the Dark Side and become more dyspeptic than our host.
August 1st, 2018 at 16:38
Agree with RealRick that this is ridiculous. A few lengths of threaded galvanized pipe, a pipe cap, a drill and a screw and you’ll have a nice single shot shotgun in about 15 minutes for a heck of a lot less investment than a 3D printer would cost. Or a car antenna with a small caliber bullet if you want to go that route. (do cars still have hollow antenna like they did 30 years back?)
Given the alternative simple means to accomplish the exact same end game, I’m rather lost as to what this is really all about, other than posturing. Perhaps Ace Hardware is next on the list of things to be enjoined by a federal judge?
August 3rd, 2018 at 10:30
Red2gun on Imgur.com did a great write-up on the whole 3D printed gun thing: https://imgur.com/gallery/MO6aXbk