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Re:Colt is ending production of AR-15s by jakeogh on Friday September 20, 2019 @03:44AM (#21024133)
We can print these. It's only going to get better. You are ultimately making an argument for DRM.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20873414

Re:Colt is ending production of AR-15s by tptacek on Friday September 20, 2019 @01:34PM (#21029221)
I absolutely do not think the ability for people to manufacture their own guns has any bearing on any of this. Gun nerd forums are rife with people observing that a full-auto conversion isn't rocket science either, and the immediate responses are always "you'll go to prison for 10 years". "Printing" has nothing to do with it. Computer nerds didn't invent machining.
Re:Colt is ending production of AR-15s by michaelt on Friday September 20, 2019 @05:23AM (#21024744)
You can already build a gun with entirely legal machine shop tools - like the brit Philip Luty's submachine gun [1]

Luty was arrested with the gun and ammunition and -quelle surprise - jailed for possession of an illegal gun.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIhGCRIQnCA