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"I think i know where you’re coming from on the distributed architecture. An example is in the RKBA world where there is distributed, open source software out there to make gun receivers."

Yes, exactly, although hardware is also required. I agree very much with the essence of all that you wrote.

"In essence, you can (almost) punch a button and make your own firearm. Or at least the part that is licensed."

With a CNC machine? Please don't misunderstand. I still agree with the essence of what you wrote. We won! That kind of job does require some knowledge and experience, though. Firearms aren't being manufactured for crooks by Mongoloids in group homes. ;-)

Wasn't there some legislation already passed against making firearms with so-called 3D printers? I warned some folks about that. Some people try to scare the most influential constituents on the other side into introducing more legislation against the Second Amendment. What's up with that?

" A lot of my older school cohorts think I’m smoking something when I note that we just essentially won. If you can build your own, all the licensing schemes in the world won’t matter."

Oh, yes. We won! But psychiatrists put some young men on fancy crazy drugs and spit them right back out into society: Joker Boy, the Newtown Martian and Storm Roof, all of them children of divorce/separation and single moms.

Now, the hordes of medical racket folks are pushing politicians again to outlaw everyone with minor neuroses for the rest of their lives while allowing the more equal animal$ to pay to have black marks deleted from their own histories.

An open source economy will solve much of that problem, too (more equal animals on government-derived incomes). "Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee." Their "hands can't hit what" their "eyes can't see."

Besides, they'll all be laid off in the remainder of the default process. See Greece, which is only halfway to where its going (see Argentina). Big government needs real revenues with real value from a large, centralized manufacturing base.

And it will be a lot rougher here for those clinging to the current paradigm of a "service economy" (socialist house of cards). The exclamations about the federal treasury printing wealth with endless free money for state and local government income recipients come from their daydreams. After Germany tried that, formerly well-to-do and respected Germans starved. Their troops ran to our troops and surrendered for food.

The anti-Second-Amendment people aren't afraid of the inner city people on food stamps. They're afraid of what millions of people with government-derived incomes will do, after large numbers of them are laid off.

Yeah, CNC. There is a machine that the same folks that did the printable gun have developed. Its pretty beta, but will mill a receiver. Cost is about $1000 IIRC. Moore’s law kicks in, you’ll be buying them on ebay in a few years. Not just for guns, but say you need a part for your dishwasher. We are getting very close to the point where your local group home will be doing this. Oh and by the way, that sort of renders the Chinese advantage moot. Six weeks plus shipping or six minutes in your workshop

There was some legislation on printable guns, but I don’t think it passed. No matter. The genie is out of the bottle.

As for the economics. I went to a debate between Gordon Liddy and Timothy Leary must’ve been 25 years ago. Tim had a very good question as to what do we do with the people whose jobs are rendered nonexistent due to technology?

Oh and printing more FRN’s is not a winning strategy. Sooner or later the bill comes due.