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You're wasting your time. 3D printers are going to make gun rights as inevitable as your right to download Cat Steven's greatest hits--and approximately as dea

You're wasting your time. 3D printers are going to make gun rights as inevitable as your right to download Cat Steven's greatest hits--and approximately as deadly. Just give it up. Also, if it makes you feel better, try to keep in mind that a Ford Escort is more dangerous than a boxful of 357 magnum revolvers, statistically speaking.

senthilnayagam 14y ago
for driving a car you need a driving license and you should not be drunk to drive on roads. none of those apply to owning or using a gun
- learc83 14y ago
  >for driving a car you need a driving license No you don't. You need a driver's license to operate a vehicle on a public road. You don't need one to keep it at home and drive around your backyard/dirt road. Most states require a CCW permit to carry a gun around in public as well.
  - harshreality 14y ago
    Furthermore, vehicles are licensed with the idea that people are going to drive them in public, at dangerous speeds, in close proximity to other vehicles that are also in motion. Guns are carried/licensed with the idea that people are not going to use them in public, except in emergency situations. The law in most places doesn't treat prohibitions as categorical imperatives. If I'm going to be attacked unless I flee on a motorcycle, good luck finding a jury anywhere that will convict me for riding a bike without a motorcycle license. And yet, carrying a gun, without a license, solely so that you can attempt to defend yourself in an emergency situation, will generally get you prosecuted in all but the most gun-tolerant areas[1] if you get caught or if you have to use it... prosecuted for not having a carry permit. (Ignoring unlicensed open carry -- which is legal in a few more places than unlicensed concealed carry is -- because, although I don't want open carry banned, I think it's tactically unsound.) [1] Vermont, Alaska, Arizona so far allow unlicensed concealed carry, and in a few other places the DAs might choose not to prosecute you, but most DAs would at least try to prosecute.
thalecress 14y ago
I understand that guns aren't hard to make - never mind 3D printing, any machinist can make a submachine gun. [1] But what about ammunition? http://www.scribd.com/doc/2624298/sten-mk2-complete-machine-instructions http://www.scribd.com/doc/2624298/sten-mk2-complete-machine-...
- learc83 14y ago
  >But what about ammunition? Not terribly difficult considering you can reuse the casings. The primer is by far the most difficult part, but not impossible. Propellant is no more difficult to make than meth.
- mgarfias 14y ago
  I made 500+ rounds over the christmas holidays as a gift for my dad. I can cast my own bullets, and if I really needed to I could make the shell casings. Yeah, it'd take a lot of work with the mill and lathe to build the dies to draw and form the brass, but totally doable.

senthilnayagam 14y ago

for driving a car you need a driving license and you should not be drunk to drive on roads. none of those apply to owning or using a gun

learc83 14y ago
>for driving a car you need a driving license No you don't. You need a driver's license to operate a vehicle on a public road. You don't need one to keep it at home and drive around your backyard/dirt road. Most states require a CCW permit to carry a gun around in public as well.
- harshreality 14y ago
  Furthermore, vehicles are licensed with the idea that people are going to drive them in public, at dangerous speeds, in close proximity to other vehicles that are also in motion. Guns are carried/licensed with the idea that people are not going to use them in public, except in emergency situations. The law in most places doesn't treat prohibitions as categorical imperatives. If I'm going to be attacked unless I flee on a motorcycle, good luck finding a jury anywhere that will convict me for riding a bike without a motorcycle license. And yet, carrying a gun, without a license, solely so that you can attempt to defend yourself in an emergency situation, will generally get you prosecuted in all but the most gun-tolerant areas[1] if you get caught or if you have to use it... prosecuted for not having a carry permit. (Ignoring unlicensed open carry -- which is legal in a few more places than unlicensed concealed carry is -- because, although I don't want open carry banned, I think it's tactically unsound.) [1] Vermont, Alaska, Arizona so far allow unlicensed concealed carry, and in a few other places the DAs might choose not to prosecute you, but most DAs would at least try to prosecute.

thalecress 14y ago

I understand that guns aren't hard to make - never mind 3D printing, any machinist can make a submachine gun. [1] But what about ammunition? http://www.scribd.com/doc/2624298/sten-mk2-complete-machine-instructions http://www.scribd.com/doc/2624298/sten-mk2-complete-machine-...

learc83 14y ago
>But what about ammunition? Not terribly difficult considering you can reuse the casings. The primer is by far the most difficult part, but not impossible. Propellant is no more difficult to make than meth.
mgarfias 14y ago
I made 500+ rounds over the christmas holidays as a gift for my dad. I can cast my own bullets, and if I really needed to I could make the shell casings. Yeah, it'd take a lot of work with the mill and lathe to build the dies to draw and form the brass, but totally doable.