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Man 3D Prints 110 Guns, Sells Them to Buyback Program for $21,000
- cable2600 4y ago3D Printed guns are Ghost Guns because they have no serial number. Also made of plastic so metal detectors cannot detect them.
- mutant 4y agoI mean... Check your links. https://futurism.com/the-byte/3d-printed-guns-buyback-new-york https://futurism.com/the-byte/3d-printed-guns-buyback-new-yo...
- jrnichols 4y agoThis happened in Houston, TX too. https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Houston-3D-printed-gun-buyback-program-17345782.php https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Houston-3D-...
- GhoshAnkit 4y agoCrazy but aren't these just props?
- GravitasFailure 4y agoNope. Most of the guns in that box are Harlot derringers with a few Liberators. Neither design is one I'd fire without carefully counting my fingers after each shot, but they do work.
- jrnichols 4y agoIt seems to depend on what ATF regulation you want to look at. A lower receiver, according to the ATF, is a firearm and needs to be regulated. What these gun buyback stunts have further illustrated is just how much of a patch work mess the gun laws have become.
- oynqr 4y agoLet's chamber a round and see.
- missingnull 4y agoThis happened in a British colony (India I think but not sure). The government tried to fight poisonous snakes by offering reward for a dead snake. Locals started to breed these snakes and turned them in to the government.
- pushedx 4y agoThe “Cobra Effect” Wikipedia article has a nice entertaining list of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
- Thorentis 4y agoWow this is basically a list of shame about poor government decisions.
- codeduck 4y ago"Tax the rat farms" - Havelock Vetinari
- yellowapple 4y agoMaybe gun buybacks ain't so bad after all.