Proposed regulation could keep 3D-printed gun blueprints offline for good

Fox News ^ | July 01, 2015 | Perry Chiaramonte

[Thud]

They have ALREADY made scale replica V-1's with guidance systems as good as 1980's Tomahawk cruise missiles.

Guns are the least of it.

[fuzzylogic]

It’s the same challenge as trying to stop pirated media...good luck with that.

[ConservingFreedom]

This kind of thinking worked so well keeping marijuana out of the hands of people for the past 60 years. Of course this will work.

Utopian faith in government power knows no party.

[JOAT]

They expect to put use this issue as a pretext to put spyware in every single copy of Windows, Apple and Linux operating systems.

They're way ahead of you bro.

Seems they've smuggled their malware in even earlier...into the boot up sectors of hard drives.

At the factory.

[Ozark Tom]

Remember when encryption software was converted to a stack of printed pages filling a suitcase, later to be scanned into a computer and reverted to code?

[Yollopoliuhqui]

Cody Wilson made the plastic single shot .45 to prove a point. It doesn’t last for more than a dozen rounds. Printed guns are not viable, even metal printed guns, with present metalurgy. This is why Cody switchd gears and is now offering a customized mini CNC rig that machines an M16 lower receiver out of aluminum billet. This is what scares the poop out of the ATF&E. A couple hundred of these units working 24/7 could make enough unregistered and untraceable M16s to outfit an army of militias.

Next, we need Cody & Co. to come up with a portable means of jamming drone control signals, or a shoulder fired device capable of homing in on them and blasting them out of the sky. A hobby rocket fitted with guidance, control and proximity fuse would be the ticket.

[LibWhacker]

...could be under threat thanks to a new proposal from the State Department.

Lessee... a proposal drawn up by the smartest woman alive who is flummoxed by e-mail? She's going to spearhead the attempt to put the information genie back in the bottle? lol

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Better to transfer by flash drive anyway.

[MaxMax]

With 3D computing those missiles can be produced by the thousands per day.
I would also surmise with minimal effort to put into action if the ordinance
was prepped.

[Thud]

Lasers need to be perfected a bit more but, when that happens, 3D anti-drone kits would be a snap to print. Pun intended.

"Next, we need Cody & Co. to come up with a portable means of jamming drone control signals, or a shoulder fired device capable of homing in on them and blasting them out of the sky. A hobby rocket fitted with guidance, control and proximity fuse would be the ticket."

[Nebr FAL owner]

Utter idiocy on the part of the govt. Only thing that will happen is that the plans will be put on a thumb drive & walked over the US border to either Canada or Mexico & then put on a server in those countries. By the time the govt figures out what is going on the plans are all around the world .