Printed Guns? Who Cares?

*This article was written as a draft (unfinished) last week, it has languished in obscurity because of my own inattention. Now, exactly as I forecasted in my draft, shit is going down in a big way (from a media standpoint) and some would be Stalins are shouting for internet censorship. 

It has been announced that printable guns are now a reality. The article states "that 3D printed guns would soon be “as easy to come by as a Google search.”"

Who cares?


America is the most heavily armed populace in the world next to Israel (!!). Up until a certain fat socialist weasel came along, people could buy guns at Wal Mart and ammo at 7-11. Why is this allegedly an issue now?

Politics. Why else? Printed guns are a non-issue but it looks "sexy" for a politician to come in and save all the children from the horror. Better yet they can now censor the internet and spy on everyone's activity because now anyone with an internet connection is a "potential terrorist", the legal framework for which has already been passed (while everyone was distracted by the Boston bombing - you fucking dummies). 


I've posted links to pages on which people have built AK receivers from garage sale shovels and submachine guns from plumbing pipe. 

Barring you actually having to build something from metal (god forbid), one can easily construct a zip gun FROM WOOD. Gangs used to use them to fight each other back in the fifties. Also there is the 'four winds' shotgun used in the Philippines which is literally two pieces of pipe, some cardboard and a screw.

UPDATE:

The US State Department has banned the distribution of the printed gun plans - after they were downloaded 100 000 times. This is so fucking ridiculous it's amazing, so much so that I'll have to express the insanity in points cover a wide range of idiocy in a timely manner:

- No government has the right to control the disbursement of information it does not own (the statement by the State Department is that the download "may" have contained information controlled by them - how about some proof before making demands?).

- If one were to invest $8000 on machinery, one can buy a CNC machine and mill aluminum AR15/M16 receivers from blocks of aluminum with free CAD programs and plans distributed widely on the Internet for years. As in: there has been the EXACT same technology available online FOR FUCKING YEARS that allows people to have what amounts to a printer print guns that are WAY MORE DEADLY than this shitty single shot 22 pistol. THIS ISN'T NEW, THIS IS NOT AN ISSUE, THIS IS POLITICS!

- The 'easy access to guns for criminals' argument is fallacious to the extreme - read previous point.

- "On Sunday, New York senator Charles Schumer said that legislation should be created to prevent people from making 3D printed guns." (source) - Uhhh, how about: none of your fucking business what I print, CNC machine or Dremel in the privacy of my own home or workshop. If I commit a (equitable) crime - then I am punishable. If I haven't shot someone or beaten, intimidated or threatened them with any gun I have, normal or homemade, THEN IT'S NO ONE'S BUSINESS BUT MINE. 

- On the previous point: they cite an 'Undetectable Firearms Act" as the provision by which they may ban the pistol. Hey dummies: it has a metal firing pin: it is detectable!!

- Canada's CBC (Communist Broadcasting Company) had a "security expert" (network security!!) qouted as saying: "So we want to be able to detect those files and remove them from the networks and from the environments before they have a chance to be printed … and control the printer from producing these weapons in the first place." - As in they (the Corporate Government of Canada ostensibly) want access to your computer and printer to control what you do with it. Hello Orwellian security state. All this because of a SHITTY weapon produced on a piece of equipment virtually no one owns.

- Anyone can make a gun out of ANYTHING, regardless of intelligence!! Look at this blog. Fucking dumbass street punks make them from garbage in Brazil. Again: this is all a ploy for the now insane and oppressive US security state to control the last bastion of freedom: the net and the free flow of information.

*Addendum: Since gun plans have been available for so long now and there hasn't been huge problems with it, if we suddenly see a rise in it becoming a problem, we'll know that problem has been recently manufactured to serve the exact political agenda I'm talking about in this piece. 

Better than the printed one: anyone can do this!!

THIS IS A NON-ISSUE, NOTHING NEW HAS HAPPENED IT'S NO EASIER TO BUILD A GUN NOW THAN IT EVER HAS BEEN. DON'T GET SUCKED INTO THE PROPAGANDA.