3D plastic guns: US lawmakers seek ban on national security grounds

[JohnC]

3D plastic guns: US lawmakers seek ban on national security grounds

http://rt.com/usa/banning-undetectable-plastic-firearms-697/

[TMF]

Good. Obviously the hundred or so people killed by AR-15s each year will increase 10,000% once all those urban gangs start firing up their 3D printers. I heard al Qaeda was finally gonna be able to carry out conventional attacks on our soil since getting a few of the hundreds of millions of firearms already in circulation here in the states were so impossible to acquire.

[whitewolf001]

Where can I get one of these plastic barrels and plastic BCG's, perhaps next to the Unicorns and Chupacabras?

[JayC]

They can make it illegal, but you can't stop somebody from downloading a 500kb file and printing it.

[tenchi_kioto]

Where can I get one of these plastic barrels and plastic BCG's, perhaps next to the Unicorns and Chupacabras?

You forgot the plastic ammo also
:-)

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[TMF]

They can make it illegal, but you can't stop somebody from downloading a 500kb file and printing it.

I remember a similar thing being said back when I had Napster.

[Lumber_Jack]

I remember a similar thing being said back when I had Napster.

 

and here we are 12 years later and you can still download illegal music

[TMF]

and here we are 12 years later and you can still download illegal music

This is true, but with the threat of Feds imprisoning your teenager and slapping you with a half million in fines. I have a feeling if this is outlawed it will be severely enforced despite not being linked to any actual crime.

[Lumber_Jack]

This is true, but with the threat of Feds imprisoning your teenager and slapping you with a half million in fines. I have a feeling if this is outlawed it will be severely enforced despite not being linked to any actual crime.

Well the only ones prosecuted for music are serious offenders, but really we're talking apples and oranges. Downloading a 3D blueprint is only half the battle, once you build it you have physical evidence. Especially if you have intention of using it. Let's face it we could all build guns and NFA items in our garage but it ain't worth the prison time. Same will be the case here. Outlaws will buy 3D printers and kill people and libs will scratch their head as to why, because it's illegal.

[TMF]

Well the only ones prosecuted for music are serious offenders, but really we're talking apples and oranges. Downloading a 3D blueprint is only half the battle, once you build it you have physical evidence. Especially if you have intention of using it. Let's face it we could all build guns and NFA items in our garage but it ain't worth the prison time. Same will be the case here. Outlaws will buy 3D printers and kill people and libs will scratch their head as to why, because it's illegal.

Yeah, it's not a great analogy but it kinda gets the point across regarding the government's stance once they make such a law. The people they were going after for illegal downloading weren't all habitual pirates. Some of them were middle school aged kids who downloaded a few songs and were hit with hundreds of thousands in fines.

I think the gov will do something similar after they pass some kinda legislation that makes it illegal to even possess the file used to make these. I dunno, it seems they are able to pick up steam when they manufacture a problem and sell it to stupid Americans.

[JayC]

Yeah and you can still download music completely for free ;)  Napster a company failed, but they've given up stopping people from trading music even though it's illegal.

 

I remember a similar thing being said back when I had Napster.