Gun control, for all practical purposes, is impossible.

[SavannahMann]

In the news today, a decision has been reached in the DIY Guns from 3D printing systems. It seems, that you do indeed have a first amendment right to access plans for a gun design that can be printed.

A Landmark Legal Shift Opens Pandora’s Box for DIY Guns

Two months ago, the Department of Justice quietly offered Wilson a settlement to end a lawsuit he and a group of co-plaintiffs have pursued since 2015 against the United States government. Wilson and his team of lawyers focused their legal argument on a free speech claim: They pointed out that by forbidding Wilson from posting his 3-D-printable data, the State Department was not only violating his right to bear arms but his right to freely share information. By blurring the line between a gun and a digital file, Wilson had also successfully blurred the lines between the Second Amendment and the First.

"If code is speech, the constitutional contradictions are evident," Wilson explained to WIRED when he first launched the lawsuit in 2015. "So what if this code is a gun?”

The Department of Justice's surprising settlement, confirmed in court documents earlier this month, essentially surrenders to that argument. It promises to change the export control rules surrounding any firearm below .50 caliber—with a few exceptions like fully automatic weapons and rare gun designs that use caseless ammunition—and move their regulation to the Commerce Department, which won't try to police technical data about the guns posted on the public internet. In the meantime, it gives Wilson a unique license to publish data about those weapons anywhere he chooses.

Now, how are 100 percent background checks going to work when anyone can print a gun in their homes? Criminals don’t need to buy them through legal means, not that they were anyway. But now, it’s even easier to get the gun they want.

So even if you ban all the guns right now, somehow, and manage to convince people to turn them in, again somehow, everyone would return home, and start printing a gun or if they are average clever, designing one to be printed.

The ability to make a gun has always existed. Now, you don’t even need a hunk of pipe from the hardware store, you just need some computer software and a 3D Printer.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Well wait a minute. If we can print a gun, then, surely we can print a tank, too. Hmm. Lemme start walking off the yard to see how much room I have here.

 

[JBond]

Well wait a minute. If we can print a gun, then, surely we can print a tank, too. Hmm. Lemme start walking off the yard to see how much room I have here.

I'm in. Let me know if you need help.

 

[NightFox]

This is great news but …

Personally I'm saving up all my REAL excitement for the day that I'll be able to 3-D print one of these …

 

[JBond]

I'm in on that one too. Let get this going. In a week or so we should rival a small African nation's army.

 

[hazlnut]

In the news today, a decision has been reached in the DIY Guns from 3D printing systems. It seems, that you do indeed have a first amendment right to access plans for a gun design that can be printed.

A Landmark Legal Shift Opens Pandora’s Box for DIY Guns

Two months ago, the Department of Justice quietly offered Wilson a settlement to end a lawsuit he and a group of co-plaintiffs have pursued since 2015 against the United States government. Wilson and his team of lawyers focused their legal argument on a free speech claim: They pointed out that by forbidding Wilson from posting his 3-D-printable data, the State Department was not only violating his right to bear arms but his right to freely share information. By blurring the line between a gun and a digital file, Wilson had also successfully blurred the lines between the Second Amendment and the First.

"If code is speech, the constitutional contradictions are evident," Wilson explained to WIRED when he first launched the lawsuit in 2015. "So what if this code is a gun?”

The Department of Justice's surprising settlement, confirmed in court documents earlier this month, essentially surrenders to that argument. It promises to change the export control rules surrounding any firearm below .50 caliber—with a few exceptions like fully automatic weapons and rare gun designs that use caseless ammunition—and move their regulation to the Commerce Department, which won't try to police technical data about the guns posted on the public internet. In the meantime, it gives Wilson a unique license to publish data about those weapons anywhere he chooses.

Now, how are 100 percent background checks going to work when anyone can print a gun in their homes? Criminals don’t need to buy them through legal means, not that they were anyway. But now, it’s even easier to get the gun they want.

So even if you ban all the guns right now, somehow, and manage to convince people to turn them in, again somehow, everyone would return home, and start printing a gun or if they are average clever, designing one to be printed.

The ability to make a gun has always existed. Now, you don’t even need a hunk of pipe from the hardware store, you just need some computer software and a 3D Printer.

Good news for terrorists, criminals and anarchists.

If they post the "code" digital plans for gun that can be disassembled and smuggled on to a plane to reassemble -- you okay with that?

There's a great Netflix doc called American Anarchist about the man who wrote the Anarchist Cookbook when he was young man, bitter and feeling disenfranchised. He lost control of the publishing rights in the 70's and has lived in France for decades teaching disabled children. During the filming he was made aware of how many truly evil people were inspired by his book.

The look of despair on his face was chilling -- when he really began to consider what his book plagiarized from Army field manuals found in the NY public library helped people to do to other people. In the name of religion. In the name of race. In the name of hate. (all really masking self-loathing)... or in the name of "freedom"...

 

[JBond]

In the news today, a decision has been reached in the DIY Guns from 3D printing systems. It seems, that you do indeed have a first amendment right to access plans for a gun design that can be printed.

A Landmark Legal Shift Opens Pandora’s Box for DIY Guns

Two months ago, the Department of Justice quietly offered Wilson a settlement to end a lawsuit he and a group of co-plaintiffs have pursued since 2015 against the United States government. Wilson and his team of lawyers focused their legal argument on a free speech claim: They pointed out that by forbidding Wilson from posting his 3-D-printable data, the State Department was not only violating his right to bear arms but his right to freely share information. By blurring the line between a gun and a digital file, Wilson had also successfully blurred the lines between the Second Amendment and the First.

"If code is speech, the constitutional contradictions are evident," Wilson explained to WIRED when he first launched the lawsuit in 2015. "So what if this code is a gun?”

The Department of Justice's surprising settlement, confirmed in court documents earlier this month, essentially surrenders to that argument. It promises to change the export control rules surrounding any firearm below .50 caliber—with a few exceptions like fully automatic weapons and rare gun designs that use caseless ammunition—and move their regulation to the Commerce Department, which won't try to police technical data about the guns posted on the public internet. In the meantime, it gives Wilson a unique license to publish data about those weapons anywhere he chooses.

Now, how are 100 percent background checks going to work when anyone can print a gun in their homes? Criminals don’t need to buy them through legal means, not that they were anyway. But now, it’s even easier to get the gun they want.

So even if you ban all the guns right now, somehow, and manage to convince people to turn them in, again somehow, everyone would return home, and start printing a gun or if they are average clever, designing one to be printed.

The ability to make a gun has always existed. Now, you don’t even need a hunk of pipe from the hardware store, you just need some computer software and a 3D Printer.

Good news for terrorists, criminals and anarchists.

If they post the "code" digital plans for gun that can be disassembled and smuggled on to a plane to reassemble -- you okay with that?

There's a great Netflix doc called American Anarchist about the man who wrote the Anarchist Cookbook when he was young man, bitter and feeling disenfranchised. He lost control of the publishing rights in the 70's and has lived in France for decades teaching disabled children. During the filming he was made aware of how many truly evil people were inspired by his book.

The look of despair on his face was chilling -- when he really began to consider what his book plagiarized from Army field manuals found in the NY public library helped people to do to other people. In the name of religion. In the name of race. In the name of hate. (all really masking self-loathing)... or in the name of "freedom"...

Get out of here with the negative nelly stuff.

We get to build tanks and shit. Stop being a buzz kill.

 

[SavannahMann]

In the news today, a decision has been reached in the DIY Guns from 3D printing systems. It seems, that you do indeed have a first amendment right to access plans for a gun design that can be printed.

A Landmark Legal Shift Opens Pandora’s Box for DIY Guns

Two months ago, the Department of Justice quietly offered Wilson a settlement to end a lawsuit he and a group of co-plaintiffs have pursued since 2015 against the United States government. Wilson and his team of lawyers focused their legal argument on a free speech claim: They pointed out that by forbidding Wilson from posting his 3-D-printable data, the State Department was not only violating his right to bear arms but his right to freely share information. By blurring the line between a gun and a digital file, Wilson had also successfully blurred the lines between the Second Amendment and the First.

"If code is speech, the constitutional contradictions are evident," Wilson explained to WIRED when he first launched the lawsuit in 2015. "So what if this code is a gun?”

The Department of Justice's surprising settlement, confirmed in court documents earlier this month, essentially surrenders to that argument. It promises to change the export control rules surrounding any firearm below .50 caliber—with a few exceptions like fully automatic weapons and rare gun designs that use caseless ammunition—and move their regulation to the Commerce Department, which won't try to police technical data about the guns posted on the public internet. In the meantime, it gives Wilson a unique license to publish data about those weapons anywhere he chooses.

Now, how are 100 percent background checks going to work when anyone can print a gun in their homes? Criminals don’t need to buy them through legal means, not that they were anyway. But now, it’s even easier to get the gun they want.

So even if you ban all the guns right now, somehow, and manage to convince people to turn them in, again somehow, everyone would return home, and start printing a gun or if they are average clever, designing one to be printed.

The ability to make a gun has always existed. Now, you don’t even need a hunk of pipe from the hardware store, you just need some computer software and a 3D Printer.

Good news for terrorists, criminals and anarchists.

If they post the "code" digital plans for gun that can be disassembled and smuggled on to a plane to reassemble -- you okay with that?

There's a great Netflix doc called American Anarchist about the man who wrote the Anarchist Cookbook when he was young man, bitter and feeling disenfranchised. He lost control of the publishing rights in the 70's and has lived in France for decades teaching disabled children. During the filming he was made aware of how many truly evil people were inspired by his book.

The look of despair on his face was chilling -- when he really began to consider what his book plagiarized from Army field manuals found in the NY public library helped people to do to other people. In the name of religion. In the name of race. In the name of hate. (all really masking self-loathing)... or in the name of "freedom"...

Yeah, because nobody else would look in military manuals for not only the US Army, but any other military. I mean, who would think to do that? /SARCASM

I imagine that Global Security is the library for terrorists right? Army Field Manuals

Come on man. Get serious.