Blueprints for printer gun downloaded 100,000 times in 2 days...
FEDS FREAK OVER 3D GUN
Feds Remove 3D-Printer Gun Design From Internet
Today, the government shut it down.
And in this case "shut it down" means they maybe made the file slightly harder to find. Because if you're looking for it, you'd certainly never think of looking on Pirate Bay or somewhere like that.
This move by the government was pretty predictable, as was the fact that it would induce more people to hunt down and download the plans than would otherwise have done so, what with the Streisand Effect and all.
But if you've been paying attention to Cody Wilson, Defense Distributed's founder, at all, this whole project has never been about guns anyway. It's about something more fundamental than that.
According to Wilson, the organization’s ideal goal is to test constitutional rights. “This is the conversation I want,” he says. “Is this a workable regulatory regime? Can there be defense trade control in the era of the Internet and 3D printing? I think this isn’t a project about firearms, it’s a project about political equality.”
This core problem with the left's predictable BAN ALL THE THINGS! response to events like Newtown is that it's wildly unrealistic as a solution to the problem they purport to address. I know this may come as a shock to regular readers of the HQ, but it would seem that the left is much more interested in using these events to justify their long march towards top-down, authoritarian control than it is in any of the particulars.
Guns have been around for centuries now, and the basic technology isn't going away. The 3D-printed gun isn't even all that revolutionary (it shares the name and basic idea of the FP-45 Liberator that we planned to flood Axis-occupied Europe with during World War II) and zip guns and other crude firearms are no big trick to make.
If you follow the left's anti-gun fetish to it's ultimate goal, a complete gun ban, then two groups wind up with guns: the government and criminals. In such a regime, it'd be awfully hard for anyone who values civil liberties to tell the difference between the two.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a file to share.
13 comments:
"The ban, by the State Department citing international arms control law, comes just days after the world's first such gun was successfully fired"
The state dept by virtue of a UN agreement has abridged the Constitution.
AYFKM?
HORSE
BARN
BYE
In 10 years we will be printing Bradley fighting vehicles, and MQ-9's.
These people are freaking out in the wrong dimension.
Nothing,and NO ONE can stop this thing any more than they could stop a movie from leaking onto worldwide servers.
They are all thinking about THE WRONG THINGS.
You're right, I think, Epa.
I do not think they can stop this thing.
Horse is out of the barn. The genie is out of the bottle.
Hah hah.
FUCK THE GOVERNMENT.
I sent this over to another friend, asking him if he thought the government could effectively stop 3D printing of weapons.
Here's his response:
I think the government can try to control it a bit at the 3D-printer channel. Force 3D-printer manufacturers to include special interlocks or chips (or GPS trackers/radio devices) that will cripple the machine's ability to print just anything, report back to the government if something they don't like is printed, etc.
They can also just make them super-expensive by regulating them up the wazoo.
They will also monitor/control/ration the sale of the plastic raw materials that feed these machines. 'For our own good' of course. That's not far-fetched at all; keep in mind that the government probably regulates heavily/watches the sale of fertilizer...
It all won't be airtight but I'd bet they will clamp down on the overall libertarian dream of every household having a printer and being able to easily print a gun.
Another ramification of this line of thinking is that the government will have to increasingly turn its attention to ammunition - since bullets are almost necessarily metallic and factory-made, they will become the easier focal point of the government's gun-control obsession. In fact from what I hear this shift has already started, and will continue to happen almost naturally, whether or not plastic printed guns become widespread.
That won't work either.
SOMEONE will just make a rooting chip to defeat that.
And plastic flechettes coated with teflon will penetrate ANYTHING, and are not visible on x-rays.
There is NO STOPPING THIS.
All attempts to do so will be a waste of resources.
I'm going to download the file and keep it. There is nothing regulating these things in Argentina just yet. They're still getting used to "cutting edge technologies" like the laser printer here.
{Can}the government effectively stop 3D printing of weapons?
Does anyone reading this really believe the only folks who downloaded the file are under this government's control?
piratebay.org
This CANNOT be controlled. The solution does not lie that way.
It will NEVER be that easy.
Epa,
Should we post it at IBA?
Maybe you and I could discuss it another time, or something.
YEs let's discuss 'off line'.
IMHO, Blogger would KICK US. But there are other places, and maybe we should have a .. IF WE EVER GET KICKED, post, you can find us 'here' with a link.
There you go.
what a joke. you can allready get together with other people and find machine shops with 3d cad cutters and do reciever parties. its not illegal to make your own gun for your own use. the machine companies will mill out everything until the last bits then you are shown which "button to push" and legally you finished fabricating the reciever which is the controlled part of the fire arm. everything else is off the shelf and can be ordered and bought without a license.
you can buy a whole ak-47 parts kit off the internet and a sheetmetal reciever flat for an ak, all you need is a sheet metalbreak to turn it into a reciever. rivet it and the parts together head space it and your ready to go to the range with a newly minted ak 47.
this printed gun is just a poke in the statists eye telling them just how illusory thier real power over us truly is. the ability to make a real fire arm at home didnt arrive with this
Well, there's nothing wrong with poking them in the eye once in awhile.
yes.
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