If he knew what he was talking about, it wouldn't be magazines coming out of printers that he'd be worried about.
What an idiot. Make whatever laws on manufacturing, possession and use. Who gives a damn if they are printed, stamped, molded or carved out of mastodon ivory.
You put it together and toss it in any baggage you intend to check (wouldn't want to mess with the TSA at the passenger entry points ~ they might come unhinged).
With enough bags and enough boxes doing nothing but showing up on Xrays, that should slow down civil aviation to a snail's pace.
Another box would be plain cardboard wrapped with aluminum foil duct tape.
Isn’t the creation of undetectable stuff sort of...the point?
We’re just going to have to outlaw all 3D printers.
Democrat politicians have “Jumping On The Band Wagon” honed to a fine art.
Plastic magazines aren’t undetectable, they still need metal springs.
Yeah, good luck with that one. [/s]
Typical Liberal idiot—all we need to do is pass a LAW!
Uh what good is a “non detectable” gun or magazine without bullets?
how about we let individual states decide what magazines are or aren’t legal, and not worry how the magazine came into existance?
The Internet community sees prohibition as a river sees a rock.
It will always be able to go around it.
Fk him and the horse he rode in on !
First, almost anyone who would use this to manufacture gun parts knows guns and what parts they want to make, and can create the parts they want by themselves, given enough effort and skill. They cannot ban the transfer of knowledge.
Second, passing a law against possession or manufacturing is unenforceable. Homeland Security can search your house as often as they want, but will only find a printer and spools of plastic filament. The parts won't exist until the person wants them to exist, and whether it is to shoot school children or fight tyranny, the police won't know when the person pushes the print button.
Third, lawmakers want to ban specific items like gun magazines that will fit into certain models of commercial manufactured weapons. But the real genius of the additive manufacturing wave is to push down to the masses a technology that allows them to create personalized objects of their own design. A skilled craftsman can use tools to create new weapons, not just copies of commercial manufactured weapons, that cannot be foreseen by legislators or law enforcement. They may not be even be recognizable as weapons until they are used. Legislators have no ability to ban things that can be made individually and can't be predicted.
We are not crossing into a dangerous new territory, it crosses into an old territory when the local blacksmith had the power and knowledge and tools to create weapons by himself. And yet we survived that era fine. We need to concentrate on the character and mental state of the people involved more than the technology.
I’m downloading the megapack from DEFCAD -— just in case...
Steve’s a real nimrod he is! Just another in a long line of useless, pedantic, democrat asses desperate to get their names on any piece of legislation.
Only a Demolshevik can read “unalienable rights” and think “but 63% say...”.
Only a Demolshevik can read “shall NOT be infringed” and think “let’s limit them to two or three bullets”.
These people treat the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution like toilet paper. They are the single greatest threat in the world to our liberty.
3D printers are the steam engines of the great steel industrial revolution.
But these Islamic dumbnut followers don’t want people getting better, nor smarter as that is an unbelievable threat to their ideology.Even if 3D printing went underground it will outpace everything else, like as some have offered a compasrison of matching automobiles to computing power a decade or so again that every six months a car would double its fuel mileage would more than double its speed and would become so cheap as to be almost disposable and obolete in a years time.
In one year I predict their will be a massive explosion of 3D printers owners, many will just use it as a toy like making toys and trinkets. But many will see it as a tool, and may will push its boundaries, some will attempt to not use plastic but an edible protein substance and will create top sirloin replicas.
Or instead of buying some small over priced trim part like a knob, bezel or logo for your car you can print your own.
The progressives fear the loss of control, of taxation and the individualism of creativity, because that leads to upsetting socialistic agendas.
And America has truly been invaded by a socialist agenda, the 3D printer is solely target as the enemy.
Who cares if a all plastic mag lasts just once? In a full on battle they would be a one time use anyway, any lying around on the ground is free for the picking, or to be recycled.One time use, drop the mag, forget about it, pop another loaded one in your weapon and keep on advancing.
This almost like someone appearing out of nowhere with a blueprint to make the most basic type of an AK rifle during the civil war era, and gunsmiths then were able to make almost every component short of chroming the barrel and smokeless powder, the steel would have been marginal but it would work.
Have fun trying to put that genie back in the bottle, lefties. You’ve already lost control. America is just giving 0bama his wish for an armed civilian force, except this one won’t take orders.
If he knew what he was talking about, it wouldn't be magazines coming out of printers that he'd be worried about.