MTMilitiaman
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Three dimensional printers are emerging technology that has the potential to affect many different fields and they become more capable and available.
I remember clearly my first experience with gun control. I was an influential 12 year old country boy in 1994 when the first Assault Weapons Ban was passed. I remember the sting well, hot, like a slap to the face, and I have regarded gun control as a blight, a scourge on humanity, every bit the seeping open wound as slavery and genocide. It has been a dream of mine to see the end of gun control in my lifetime, and now it appears not only possible but inevitable that this will occur, and possibly much sooner than my deathbed.
One area where 3D printing technology has the capability to revolutionize an industry is arms manufacturing. Already you can buy a machine, unlicensed and registered, that will allow you to manufacture functioning, high-quality 1911s in your kitchen, basement, or garage. And the machine costs less than many 1911s. Already programs are available to allow you to manufacture many different types of firearms or firearm components. As this technology evolves and becomes more common, individuals will be able to make their own firearms with absolutely no government knowledge or intervention.
Until they require the 3D printers to be registered, right? That only works, at all, until some enterprising individual makes a program that allows you to make a 3D printer on a 3D printer, which is not only possible, but inevitable. Once the government loses the ability to track the printers, they loses the ability to track everything that goes with it, including guns and their components. Complete firearms aren't even the most interesting consideration here. No more paying $25000 for a registered sear. Now anyone with a program available on the internet for free, a small billet of steel, and access to one of these printers can have any component made for any firearm. And the government is 100% impotent in their ability to control any of this. It doesn't even matter if it is illegal because it is so impossible for them to enforce it. It really could be the universal death of gun control.
I remember clearly my first experience with gun control. I was an influential 12 year old country boy in 1994 when the first Assault Weapons Ban was passed. I remember the sting well, hot, like a slap to the face, and I have regarded gun control as a blight, a scourge on humanity, every bit the seeping open wound as slavery and genocide. It has been a dream of mine to see the end of gun control in my lifetime, and now it appears not only possible but inevitable that this will occur, and possibly much sooner than my deathbed.
One area where 3D printing technology has the capability to revolutionize an industry is arms manufacturing. Already you can buy a machine, unlicensed and registered, that will allow you to manufacture functioning, high-quality 1911s in your kitchen, basement, or garage. And the machine costs less than many 1911s. Already programs are available to allow you to manufacture many different types of firearms or firearm components. As this technology evolves and becomes more common, individuals will be able to make their own firearms with absolutely no government knowledge or intervention.
Until they require the 3D printers to be registered, right? That only works, at all, until some enterprising individual makes a program that allows you to make a 3D printer on a 3D printer, which is not only possible, but inevitable. Once the government loses the ability to track the printers, they loses the ability to track everything that goes with it, including guns and their components. Complete firearms aren't even the most interesting consideration here. No more paying $25000 for a registered sear. Now anyone with a program available on the internet for free, a small billet of steel, and access to one of these printers can have any component made for any firearm. And the government is 100% impotent in their ability to control any of this. It doesn't even matter if it is illegal because it is so impossible for them to enforce it. It really could be the universal death of gun control.