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Posted on 05/06/2013 3:07:28 PM PDT by RightWingNilla
Yesterday when I saw the picture of the first fully 3D printed gun (I realize the firing pin is a nail and was not printed) I almost wept for joy. This is a first important step away from the dominance of the state over their citizens in many parts of the world. Americans enjoy the protection of Second Amendment, but many places that purport to be free countries have banned all guns outright or have made ownership so restrictive that getting a firearm is almost impossible. Other parts of the world are not so free as even that. Firearm ownership for people in places like China or North Korea could mean the death penalty. This new technology makes it possible for anyone anywhere with access to a certain level of technology to take the power of the state and place it into the hands of the people. The 3D printed gun is either the beginning of the end to those repressive regimes or the beginning of one of the largest and most sweeping crack down on civil rights in the past fifty years.
The argument to restrict these rights will not be over firearms. Oh, guns and violence will be used as an excuse, but the argument will be over the right to freedom of speech and expression. This 3D printed weapon and each subsequent generation of it is a triumph of information technology. It has been made possible by the revolution in information sharing that has taken place in the last thirty years and in the ease and ability to pass information about technology freely between people. This ability of information to be exchanged will become a battleground and the government’s goal will be limiting the freedom of speech. This goal will at first be packages as only limiting information that the state finds dangerous, but it is the ultimate slippery slope. Never underestimate the willingness of government to push its subjects down that hill.
Interesting article about an interesting topic. Anyone know anything about 3D printing?
search FR .. stay tuned .. LOTS now and more on the way.
Chuckie Shmuckie is already crying about this little gun. It gave me great joy.
I can’t wait to hear Bloomturd’s take on this...
Thanks. I have seen the Cody Wilson piece. Amazing stuff.
3D Printing... Kinda.
Yeah the usual statist pigs hate this. Which almost in of itself, makes me support it.
I would suggest every FReeper download the Defense Distributed files for the “Liberator” single shot pistol, printable AR-15 lower receiver, printable 30 round AR-15 magazine, oh, heck, just download all their files, even if you don’t have a 3D printer, even if you don’t expect to have the money to buy one anytime in the next decade, even if you yourself don’t want to have firearms in your home for whatever reason.
The files need to exist on as many computers as possible so they cannot be regulated.
Worried about the Feds knowing you downloaded it? Download them using a public wi-fi connection, encrypt the result under an obscure name, and delete the original using military-grade deletion software, then copy your encrypted file to lots of places — a back-up hard-drive, various places in the cloud, . . .
This 3-D printing thing apparently started back in the ‘90s. I worked for an aerospace company that bought one of these machines early on. The purpose was to “proof” part designs by printing the part out and examining it and its functionality. The material that the printed part was composed of was certainly not substantial enough to permit its use as a genuine part. Gun barrels are typically forged steel. I cannot imagine a printed gun barrel having the strength required to withstand the explosive discharge of a bullet. Perhaps there is something that I am not understanding here. Please correct me if I am wrong.
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Interesting article about an interesting topic. Anyone know anything about 3D printing?
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Null and void runs the 3D printing Ping List. Send him a Freepmsil and he will set you up.
XONE will print plastic, ceramic and metal but their printers are prohibitively expensive for most people.
I suspect printer sales will be highly regulated or even prohibited. Also attempts to stop open source designs for weapons.
Another problem is TSA. It's not hard at all to figure out how to get one through. Take out the firing pin.
Search the internet for videos on “Metal Sintering”.
It’s the next generation 3D priting method.
Hey, that looks just like the spray nozzle for some ant killer I recently bought!
Pass me that box of 3-D printed ammo will ya?
3D printing is currently at a very crude scale.
Nano-tech will eventually allow 3D printers to operate at a molecular level. When the tech allows manipulation at the nano scale the guns created by 3D printers will be the sturdiest guns ever made.
3D printers will morph into desktop assemblers able to make drugs, guns, food, biological tissue, extremely complex electronic devices and things we can’t even imagine yet.
Liberals/progressives/socialists/communists will all be against this technology since it liberates ordinary people (the unwashed masses) from any dependence on central government.
Dentists are using them for things they used to have to send off to be made as the patient waits in the ofice. I have in vested in Organavo, which is working on making 3D organs, they have already made a small liver and are working on kidneys.
Imagine what this does to all those stocks of companies that these congressment are exempt from insider trading laws.
3d printing changes all of production.
Legislators are going to get all ass-hurt about this. Big deal. So restrict 3-D printers to adults. Any adult can get the tools to make a proper weapon.
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