It’s here: a gun you can make if you have a 3D printer. The price of these printers is falling.
You can now get a software blueprint program that lets you make your own gun.
This is the first. There will be many more models. Hundreds more. Maybe thousands more. They will be online for free or for a fee.
The digital blueprints can be placed on servers outside the USA or any nation that bans guns. Maybe there will be a notice: “if you live in a nation that says you may not own a gun, be sure not to do this at home.” It’s like pornography sites that say, “I guarantee that I am at least 18 years old.”
These guns will leave no trail of paper.
They may be banned. So what?
For those of us who read The Weapon Shops of Isher 60 years ago, this is a dream come true.
Mr. North,
Whenever you have the time, please change the title of your post so it reads "DIY Gun:[…]" (as in Do It Yourself) because DYI would seem like it says "Do Yourself In"
— They may be banned. So what? —
That's the key part here. These guns may ulitimately be pretty ineffective except as (maybe) standoff weapons, and only if the attacker partially realizes what it is and not a clothes tagger. What such a weapon represents is the triumph of technology and human ingenuity over the tyrannical actions of an overbearing government. It also opens the door to guerrilla manufacturing, with the help of open source processes.
More guns! Yehaaaa!!!
Kind of reminds me of China trying to ban the Internet…. Oh and by the way, you can make a fairly good shotgun with two pieces of pipe an end-cap, and a sharpend screw. The instructions are on YouTube.
If this makes it easier for nuts and felons to have a gun, why should I be happy about it?
Moreover, the laws will get even tighter. We are not free – we live in world of political law. This will make it tougher – not better. Trust me!
Please, no logic allowed on this site!
There is a possibility that is exactly what he means…everything is traceable, even downloads.
Need bullets – think they can be made the same way where at least they would stop somebody?