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I don’t see the story here. You could always make guns. So now you can make them a certain way and it’s a Pandora’s box?

• flyingfences 8y ago
  It's not about making guns. It's about publishing instructions for making guns.
• jsoc815 8y ago
  The story is the perceived loss of control over who can (and will) make guns. The thinking being that by publishing the info on the net a great many people who wouldn't have otherwise bothered to figure out how to do so will now make guns. And of course, since the net isn't limited by geography per se, now the issue becomes one of international concern. For the record, while I expect that there will be an uptick in interested parties, I don't think it will of epic proportions because at the heart of it, people are lazy. I do, however, wonder how the gun manufacturers feel about this.
  • smsm42 8y ago
    Just for an example, this is what happens when people need to make guns on the cheap in field conditions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sten Quoting: "the most basic model, the Mark III, could be produced from five man-hours of work". In any machine shop having as advanced technology as welding and metalworking.
• smsm42 8y ago
  The story is that you can speak and publish information even if the state does not like it. That should be the case anyway, but guns are one of those subjects where logic gets thrown out of the window and replaced by emotions - like "how you can allow people to publish information about fire boomsticks! Think about the children that are going to die, you monster!!!" So, the story is the sanity has, after long and hard struggle, prevailed this time. As for Pandora's box, of course anything that is about guns is scary, especially anything new. So, Pandora's box.