[marktwain]

If people may not be prosecuted for possessing firearms from which the serial number has been removed, the whole "gun registration" scheme falls apart.

Gun registration was never about solving crimes. It never had any serious effect on crime. It was always about making the confiscation of guns from ordinary people easier.

[lavaroise]

Gun registration = people registration aka forced enlistment into wars or death camps.

We already see the choices the globalism gives us, between Russian gulags or forced enlistment into fighting for Ukraine for “democracy”….

[lavaroise]

Also markings on weapons has always been a prerogative of tribal and gun culture association. The state should not impose its religion and serials on our assembly objects.

Guns are not only an individual but also an ethnic right. Irony that those crying against racism and antisemitism happen to be actually antigun capos.

[Travis McGee]

As a technical note, folks should know that merely grinding off the surface impressions is not enough. The original dies stamp the number deeply into the metal's crystalline structure, and so the number can often be recovered. If one lived in a dangerous police state, (not a free country like the USA, obviously)(sarc?), one should first ruin the numbers with a center punch, and then grind the mess off.

Anyway, center punches are great tools to have. 1. If you want to drill a very accurately placed hole in hard steel, use a punch to give your first small drill bit a home. Otherwise, the drill bit tip may skate around before randomly biting into the steel, off your desired mark.

2. Sometimes in order to disassemble some tight metal pieces, even after soaking in penetrating oil, you will need to give a part a sharp rap with a hammer. The hardened tip of the center punch will bite into the piece you are trying to dislodge, so you can give it a major impact with your hammer.

Frankly, I can't imagine any tool bench without a center punch. Super useful tool. I just mentioned a few reasons to own them. Just a couple bucks at the hardware store.

[Gay State Conservative]

When it comes to firearms the only restriction I will accept is that there'd be laws denying access to people who have *proven* themselves to be bad...unreliable...untrustworthy. That proof would be in the form of a criminal conviction for certain types of crimes.

Actually,I thought of two more restrictions. 1) Only US citizens could manufacture,distribute or possess a firearm and 2) Nobody under the age of "x" (perhaps 16) could possess a firearm.

[Gay State Conservative]

99% of the gun laws in force today...state *and* Federal...are meant to unlawfully infringe upon 2nd Amendment rights.

[Joe Brower]

Good article by Mr. Dean Weingarten, as always.

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[cyclotic]

The Fourth Circuit covers Maryland where the lunatic Asylum they call the Legislature last year made the possession of homemade “Ghost Guns” illegal. I prefer to refer to them as hobby guns.

[Blood of Tyrants]

If it is illegal for the federal government to have a database of firearms, then having an unserialized firearm is moot.

[Mr. Blond]

3D printers go BRRRRRRRR!