Posted on 01/16/2013 3:07:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
As Debate Stirs Around High-Capacity Gun Clips, Homemade Gun Enthusiasts Show Clip Can be Made At Home with 3-D Printer
Washington, D.C.— Today, Congressman Steve Israel (D-Huntington) called for a renewal of a revamped Undetectable Firearms Act that includes the ban of 3-D printed, plastic high-capacity magazines. The existing ban on plastic guns expires this year and does not clearly cover magazines. This past weekend, Defense Distributed, a group of homemade gun enthusiasts used a 3-D printer to print and test an ammunition magazine for an AR semi-automatic rifle, loading and firing 86 rounds from the 30-round clip.
Rep. Israel said, “Background checks and gun regulations will do little good if criminals can print high-capacity magazines at home. 3-D printing is a new technology that shows great promise, but also requires new guidelines. Law enforcement officials should have the power to stop high-capacity magazines from proliferating with a Google search.”(continued)
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We need to restart HUAC ~ start hauling these guys in to tell us about their communist party activities.
Duh. Now, guess we are going to have to register our printers, too.
Hey, congressman jerkface.
I’ll do it anyway. Try and stop me.
Their parliament fixed that one ~ remember, part of Yemen is the first communist country to be liberated! That way you get a little bit of this and little bit of that and some of it is just incomprehensible. BTW, well dressed men arrive at a soiree with freshly polished RPGs
/johnny
It would appear the Law of Unintended Consequences is gonna get a real workout.
I hope that Israel understands that Israel would be dead meat with the type of gun control he supports.
As to this, he’s just whistling into the wind. There is NO WAY that this Congress will pass ANYTHING resembling gun control. Even the Dems are scared to death of this issue.
This is truly what 2A is for.
Is this the same guy who proposed outlawing masturbation?
‘64 oz cups’
I own one of those. I don’t travel to NYC at all.
It strikes me that an undetectable anti-tank mine with EFP can be easily printed off one of these things.
Will blow an M1, and will make flying dust of smaller things.
The mag depots are long since saturated.
And then not just release them into the water again, but hang them.
Same here! How do you like the nerve of this creep. We need “guidelines” from asshats like him. He couldn’t change the batteries in a flashlight if his life depended on it. But he’s one great whore of a politician. One of them should introduce a bill to keep these idiots away from television and newspapers. Dem Congresscritters should be kept pure and ignorant - like canaries!
“Hey, the Soviet Russians made it illegal to own a regular copier or fax machine,”
Their copier machines made TWO copies - one for you, one for the “keyski operator” (aka KGB agent) to have, removable from inside under lock and key That’s how “dangerous” they were.
Or how about a 30-shot revolver?
I’m sure it would be alot cheaper to just buy a welder and make your own from a little bit of sheet metal and a spring. There’s nothing sensational about a 3D printed magazine. I’d be more impressed when they can start layering metal with extreme precision and can make small metal parts. That’ll be much more useful.
You said it, rex! Man, but I can’t stand Steve Israel. He’s like a discount store Bloomberg. I tell you — one day I hope to be represented in Congress by someone for whom I actually voted.
But I’ll have to move away for that to happen.
Regards,
PS: I see you like Latin. Do you attend St. Matthew’s church by any chance? (That’s my parish; we go to the Latin Mass there.)
I’m sure that’s coming. We won’t recognize industry 10 years from now.
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