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1 posted on 06/21/2019 10:54:57 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

“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)


2 posted on 06/21/2019 10:58:38 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Better watch out, Adam - pretty soon we’ll be 3D printing nukes!


3 posted on 06/21/2019 11:01:08 AM PDT by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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To: BenLurkin
the lawless dissemination of digital firearms blueprints

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.

4 posted on 06/21/2019 11:15:31 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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“the lawless dissemination of digital firearms blueprints”

Right, because a law against “dissemination of blueprints” totally wouldn’t contradict the 1st Amendment or anything.


8 posted on 06/21/2019 11:35:29 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: BenLurkin

So steel tubes and metal lathes are monsters in our midst?


9 posted on 06/21/2019 11:39:42 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: BenLurkin

Scary because it is something that can’t be controlled by the elites and their ineffective gun laws?


11 posted on 06/21/2019 11:48:43 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


13 posted on 06/21/2019 12:18:33 PM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: BenLurkin

Man, even at a pretty leftwing tech site like Gizmodo the forum posters are lampooning this idiot.


14 posted on 06/21/2019 12:27:08 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: BenLurkin


"Scary!"
16 posted on 06/21/2019 12:31:06 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BenLurkin; grobdriver

Check out this short video for a peek into the not so distant future...

https://youtu.be/cqeUMDXyONI


17 posted on 06/21/2019 12:35:57 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: BenLurkin

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.


19 posted on 06/21/2019 12:45:46 PM PDT by OldNewYork (Operation Wetback II, now with computers)
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To: BenLurkin

Where are the files?


23 posted on 06/21/2019 3:37:39 PM PDT by null and void (Stamp out philately!)
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To: BenLurkin; AFPhys; AD from SpringBay; ADemocratNoMore; aimhigh; AnalogReigns; archy; ...
3-D Printer Ping!


24 posted on 06/21/2019 3:38:22 PM PDT by null and void (Stamp out philately!)
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To: BenLurkin; null and void

I just wanna 3-D print my own aircraft carrier.

And fighter jets, too.


25 posted on 06/21/2019 3:44:16 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


29 posted on 06/21/2019 4:07:20 PM PDT by xander (Textual correctness unlikely)
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To: BenLurkin

“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.


35 posted on 06/22/2019 7:02:07 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (The Red Queen wasn't kidding.)
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