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I don't how relevant this strategy will be in an age of under $1000 desktop manufacturers coming up in a decade or two. They'll be able to do generic strong me
by mahyarm 14y ago
I don't how relevant this strategy will be in an age of under $1000 desktop manufacturers coming up in a decade or two. They'll be able to do generic strong metal shapes, and after that the cat is out of the bag. Guns are really simple devices that haven't been subject to fundamental innovations since WWI.
The only thing left to regulate would be smokeless powder, and gangs are pretty good at importing various powders with impunity as the drug war has shown us.
- nickpinkston 14y agoYea, the US needs to work on curbing demand for guns on the street or theyll keep having these problems. This is a big social justice problem more than solvable with simple prohibitions
- angrow 14y agoWell, there are other objects and substances which are illegal to make/possess, despite the fact that most anyone can make them from legal materials, so the situation you describe wouldn't be anything new.
- mahyarm 14y agoThe difference I describe is that it would be easy for anybody to do it. You literally download your low recoil machine gun (sold in the 50s) like you downloaded that textbook off bit torrent and press print. Then you print off an ammo reloading robot and your pretty much done. You don't need machine shop expertise and $10k/$100k worth of equipment. The 'no guns' strategy would fall to pieces in the face of that. That's why no guns works in reducing gun ownership in the UK.