The Department of State, ever alert to national security threats, has banned the publication online of blueprints for a one-shot pistol.
The pistol can be made at home, if you have a 3D printer.
Maybe you saw the video, with the loud music and the stock movies of some World War II bombers.
The student uses Web servers in New Zealand. Therefore, the agency argued, sharing gun manufacturing information through servers operated in a foreign country amounts to an illegal export.
I mean, you wouldn’t want North Korea to get copies of a blueprint to build a one-shot plastic pistol. America’s security is on the line here. The thought of Kim Dung Ill, or whatever his name is, pointing a one-shot plastic pistol at your wife’s head is enough to terrorize every American male.
Think of a man with a haircut like that, with a weapon like that!
So, the student who posted the blueprints has pulled them from his site. But not before 100,000 people downloaded them.
What will the Department of State do when these blueprints are posted on a site run by a non-American on a server outside the United States, where the Department of State has no jurisdiction?
Will North Korea invade?
Tell the Goverment to go FIS
I certainly feel a lot safer now that the federal government is protecting me in this way!!!!!!
Napolitano can buy armored Hummers and billions of rounds of small arms ammo, under a budget crunch that "forced her to release over 2,000 convicted, jailed illegal aliens…. But citizens can't have access to a 1 shot plastic pistol, while BHO tries to take away our "non-sporting" aka assault weapons. Our forefathers were right.
Just to be sure that we can import the 3-D plan to make a WMD that can fire one bullet to murder our assailant who owns an illegal weapon, we need to make the retailers on the web pay double the tax due to all 9,600 sales tax jurisdictions.
When this is passed the internet sales tax bill will cause many more products to become available from foreign sources that avoid reporting tothese 9,600 different sales tax jurisdictions in the U.S. – not one like local retailers do! How anyone could call such an act by the word fair is hard to imagine. NAFTA gives access to Canada and Mexico.
The problem is the need for sales tax in the first place! We have driven manufacturing out of the country, so its time to drive retail sales away too? Many jobs will be lost, but the effort to capture more $$ will continue.
Really! What Blue Prints? I don't believe that you need Blue Prints!
Proof, tyrannts do not need to be intelligent.
Downloaded 100,000 time and the zip file then emailed another 100 times each. Face it Napolitano it's too late.
Another violation of the inalienable rights enumerated within the First Amendment.
It looks like the dumber they are the more they attract "dumber" voters
I read where a child was suspended from school for chewing a piece of pizza into the shape of a pistol. Does the federal government know about this? What are they doing to protect us from pizza guns?
Just another useless move by an incompetent executive branch. If only they learnt to read, the executive branch could read the second amendment where it states that no law should be enacted which infringes the peoples right to bear arms. Then Americans would not have to resort to such lengths. After all, if American want to remove the usurper, they need more than a plastic gun. He will hide behind his own private militia.
Given the fact that the FBI reports that less than 1% of all Crimes committed with a gun were actually solved due to the registrations and further that the FBI states that most of them would have been solved using other means, I find it ludicrous that we even have gun registration. Obviously the only reason that gun registration exists is to eventually confiscate all guns.
It was a Proof of Concept. It can be done. Next somebody will figure out a way to do it better: faster, easier, cheaper, but in no way were these the blueprints for the only way to ever do it.
HOLD ON A SEC HERE….I'M NOT EXACTLY TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED, BUT IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THESE 3D PRINTERS MUST WORK (AT LEAST, KIND OF LIKE) A CNC MILL. NOW, IF I'M RIGHT ABOUT THAT, ANY CNC PROGRAMMER COULD WRITE UP A PROGRAM ON THEIR OWN & NOTHING COULD BE DONE ABOUT IT BY ANY GOV'T AGENCY. THAT'D PISS 'EM OFF !!! ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING THAT ANY TIME YOU OUTLAW SOMETHING PEOPLE WANT, ALL YOU SUCCEED IN REALLY DOING IS CREATING A BLACK MARKET FOR WHATEVER IT IS YOU JUST OUTLAWED. BEING THE FACT THAT SO MANY JOBS IN THE MACHINING INDUSTRY HAVE BEEN OUTSOURCED TO OTHER COUNTRIES & THESE PROGRAMMERS ARE OUT OF WORK IN THEIR FEILD, IT COULD GET DOWNRIGHT LUCRATIVE TO MAKE & SELL THESE PROGRAMS ON THE BLACK MARKET. THEREFORE, CREATING MORE OF A PROBLEM THAN THEY'RE PREPARED TO DEAL WITH. MAKE NO MISTAKE, PEOPLE WILL BUY THESE PRINTERS & PROGRAMS. THESE PRINTED GUNS WON'T BE REGISTERED & THERE'S NOTHING THEY CAN DO ABOUT THAT EITHER. THEY WON'T KNOW WHERE THEY ARE, OR WHO'S GOT 'EM. HMMM, I'M ACTUALLY STARTING TO LIKE THIS IDEA MORE & MORE, THE MORE I THINK ABOUT IT…..LMAO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hear that FRENCHIE!
How stupid can they possibly get? What of all those thousands of DYI guys out there with lathes and milling machines in their home workshops? Aluminum castings are available for AR-15 lower receivers (the controlled item) as are the blue prints. Anybody with a little mechanical ability can build one in his garage. And, so far, it is perfectly legal. You just can't sell or even give it away.
I have often heard the question, "Why would anybody want (or need) a ZIP gun?" The correct answer is, of course, to get yourself a real gun you moron!
LMAO too.
Let the 100,000 plans be released said the Jeddai. So the 100,000 plans were released and it spread throughout the galaxy and the universe at it astonishing rate.
The universe was saved because of these plans. They armed the citizens from the tyranny that abounded. The evil leaders were than rounded up and kicked into the dark matter where they were tormented by the sound of 3-D printers whirring out plastic guns!
The ironic thing was it was not needed anymore.
Moral, get rid of your treasonous leaders and peace will abound forever more. They are not needed and was in fact the source of the dilemma.
Peace my friends…. True story from Galaxy X-109B. We have been alive for 3,000,000,000,000,000 years and have been observing earth.
"You don't need guns or free speech, you schweinhund! Go backun zee slavepens und breed us mohr soldiers!"
it was a pop tart gun
Where is Shane? Shane, if you didn't get a copy of the blueprint, let me know.
doesn't matter, if they do outlaw them. Thousands of blue prints for everything from pistols to machine guns have been sold in shot gun news and popular science and mechanics for years from the 60's on.
Did anyone burn the offensive blue prints onto a cd? If so, who has them, enquiring minds want to know. Cd's aren't firearms. A download is not a firearm.
We now have some democrats that are pushing to have gunpowder designated as an explosive and to buy it you would need a license. You can't have a stock pile of it either (with no mention in the bill about what amount would be considered excessive). The bill will cover anything with gunpowder in it, including factory made ammo, smokeless gun powder and black powder. Anyone that reloads ammo would be considered a manufacturer (no matter how small the operation) and would need licensing. If this goes into effect, it is an infringement upon your God given rights. I hope the government remembers that we fought a war over shot and gunpowder. The Boston Tea Party was not about tea. When do the trials for treason start?
There's an old joke, in Texas anyways.
A certain hotel, unnamed, because it was destroyed in a hurricane, had a certain problem with its open balconies to the Gulf of Mexico.
The balconies became loaded with fishermen, who were breaking windows below them because of their lead-weighted casting methods.
So, in an effort to stop the damage to the hotel, they put up signs stating: "Do not fish off of your balcony".
The result was more broken glass.
And the result?
No more broken windows.
The answer was, BTW, "Remove the signs".
What exactly is the difference between smuggling powdered cocaine and smuggling smokeless powder?
The more these "people" squeeze the more profit opportunities they create and the more resistance grows to their plans.
This is the same sort of thinking that made Phil Zimmer'man's "Pretty Good Privacy" program into a "munition". The result of this ban will be to encourage more experimentation "öff line" to the point that we have pretty decent self loading handguns made of tougher plastics, suitable for 3D printers.
Just like with nuclear weapons – once you know that it's possible to make something making your own version is just some hard work.
FedGov should have made one, blew it up with proof ammo and then discouraged people from imitating it. Instead they got bureaucratic…. their usually knee jerk reaction.
This government of ours is getting dumber all the time. Why would anyone worry about blueprints to make a 1 shot plastic pistol? What a bunch of morons!
Chuck Schumer said he's going to chain the kid up in his house for ten years to "teach the little gun nuts of this nation a lesson."
Could these guns pass through metal detectors?
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Any of those "gun nuts" he's talking about machine gun toting street gang members?
OMG! OMG! OMG!_This article begins with: "The Department of State, ever alert to national security threats……." (Ha Ha, what a joke!!!)_This admin sure can act quickly on its own citizens. But, let a real threat come along &WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY???_What an EF'n joke are they ALL!
Sure do wish he would go ahead & bring it on! I want to see this 'private militia' that thinks it can overcome 'We, The People' on any footing. C'mon ogayone, bring on your community organizers (probably the convicts he cut loose). We need to get rid of them anyway.
Hey Frenchie – Drop the caps, hard to read.
I thought they were going to go the route of being consistent…by banning 3 D Printers