“Look out, he’s got an inaccurate, lightweight and low caliber single shot gun!”
What is it about the Left wing in the West that breeds such intellectualy challenged absolute wusses?
(I know: the Cultural Marxism ... they’re what was wanted)
Better watch out, Adam - pretty soon we’ll be 3D printing nukes!
What is it with people who supposedly deal with data for a living that leads them to think it can be suppressed? It's 1's and 0's, guys, and it's already out there. And it isn't "lawless" any more than sharing a Facebook post is.
It's legal to design a firearm. It's legal to share that design. It's legal to make your own firearm. It's legal to own and operate your own routers, lathes, milling machines, and the like. It's legal to purchase materials such as steel and aluminum that might (shudder!) be made into something. And it's legal to share information. There isn't anything scary about it. What is scary is people who would construct a police state and take technology back a millennium to soothe their hysterical fears.
“the lawless dissemination of digital firearms blueprints”
Right, because a law against “dissemination of blueprints” totally wouldn’t contradict the 1st Amendment or anything.
So steel tubes and metal lathes are monsters in our midst?
Scary because it is something that can’t be controlled by the elites and their ineffective gun laws?
Or... You could just become a gunsmith and make them.
That’s the thing with technology, after you make it, it will be made again and again and again. The wheel for instance... Try eliminating the wheel... OR... What about the nuclear bomb... Wouldn’t it be nice to dis-invent the nuclear bomb... But it isn’t going to happen, so keep your bomb shelter stocked with guns.
Man, even at a pretty leftwing tech site like Gizmodo the forum posters are lampooning this idiot.
Check out this short video for a peek into the not so distant future...
Forgive my ignorance, but it seems to me a 3-d print of these things on most widely available printers would be more danger to the user than to anyone else, if actually fired. If they had the money to get a machine that printed in metal I would guess they’d have the money to get the actual thing.
Where are the files?
I just wanna 3-D print my own aircraft carrier.
And fighter jets, too.
Every existing law that controls a person from making a firearm with files, drills, mills, and/or a lathe also applies to anyone printing one with a 3D printer. Way too much hysteria on this subject.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - A.C.Clarke
Occurred to me:
Progressives genuinely believe in magic.
Cellphones (scrying glass), 3d printing (replicators), doxxing & registration (true names), robotics (golums), engineering (conjuring), etc - the old terms aren’t used, but the attitude toward the mysterious is the same: indulging/demanding fantasy, fearing those who have mastery & confidence in arcane subjects.
They don’t grasp the science of nature (say, weather), attribute perceived threats (climate change) to angry gods who demand penance & tribute (green energy economy thru compulsory taxation) directed by high priests (politicians) and their minions (climate scientists & clean energy companies), favoring white magic (solar & wind energy) and advocating witch hunts & trials for practitioners of black arts (nuclear & fossil fuels).
Same patterns of superstition, just terms have changed.