Posted on 05/10/2013 11:57:38 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Will these 3D printed guns be used in the commission of crime? Undoubtedly. But will they also be used for self-defense? Equally surely. If you ban 3D printed guns, how does this change? With law-abiding citizens obeying the law, only criminals will be the ones who get these relatively inexpensive guns.
Is this a civil liberties issue? To me this is a way to lower the cost of people obtaining guns -- a big benefit given that it is poor minorities who live in high crime urban areas who benefit the most from owning guns. Yet, it looks as if the Obama administration is using threats, without a legal basis, to stifle people obtaining these guns.
From Fox News:
. . . Plans for the working handgun were posted online Monday by Cody Wilson, founder of Defense Distributed, potentially allowing anyone with access to a 3D printer to make a firearm from plastic. The plans, which had been in the works for months, caused alarm among gun control advocates but were seen by some Second Amendment advocates as a breakthrough. More than 100,000 copies of the plans were downloaded before the federal government took the files.
“[Defense Distributed's] files are being removed from public access at the request of the U.S. Department of Defense Trade Controls," read a banner atop the website. "Until further notice, the United States government claims control of the information.”
Wilson tells FoxNews.com that he decided to comply to a request by the Pentagon to take down the gun specs from his website while he weighs his legal options. . . .
Wilson says he has complied to most laws on the books and feels that the D.O.D.'s request may be more politically motivated.
"If this is an attempt to control the info from getting out there, it's clearly a weak one," he said, adding that the CAD design for the weapon has already spread across the Internet at downloading sites like the Pirate Bay. . . .
This really throws a monkey wrench in the gun confiscation Nazis’ plans. LOL! 100,000 downloads. Too late.
Well: I rid a motorcycle, and I don’t like helmets. But the helmet I have is a good one. I figure if I have to have one it may as well be of some use.
I feel the same way about guns, If I have one , I want a good one. I don’t want it blowing up in my hand or misfiring or wearing out after 10 shots fired.
I am not a Saturday night Special sort of guy. I like quality. I can also see the problem with plastic guns and metal detectors. Although IMO the only thing a metal detector does is turn the operator into a target. The first target.
Wink...Wink...
I promise...
I feel the same way, but I don't think that this plastic handgun was named the Liberator by coincidence. The original Liberator was a cheap, single shot .45 mass produced by the U.S. and dropped into Nazi occupied Europe during WWII. It's purpose was never to engage in any kind of prolonged gunfight. It was simply intended as a vehicle to acquire a better gun. You innocently approach a fascist thug, shoot him with your Liberator and take his gun(s).
Old Liberator 
New Liberator 
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts
Oh, gosh! Why would the feral government be nervous about citizen-manufactured guns?
Banned 3D printed gun files will never truly vanish from the Web
http://www.techhive.com/article/2038487/banned-3d-printed-gun-files-will-never-truly-vanish-from-the-web.html
According to TorrentFreak, The Pirate Bay is adamant about keeping the files online. It reported that a Pirate Bay insider told the BitTorrent watching website: “TPB has for close to 10 years been operating without taking down one single torrent due to pressure from the outside. And it will never start doing that.”
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