Re:What the Maker Revolution Will Really Look Like
by thechut on Thursday January 17, 2013 @01:49PM
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Downvoted, why does everyone need to bring up the gun issue when somebody talks about the maker revolution? Big gun manufactures have been making guns for a long time. I don't see how people making themselves matters at all.
Re:What the Maker Revolution Will Really Look Like
by dllthomas on Thursday January 17, 2013 @02:02PM
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The point is the difficulty of enforcing gun control legislation, when a banned 30 round clip can be simply printed in anyone's garage from a easily transferred file. Not entirely germane to the present discussion I think, but not entirely irrelevant either.
Re:What the Maker Revolution Will Really Look Like
by jamieb on Thursday January 17, 2013 @02:22PM
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Did you perhaps miss this: "Obama told lawmakers that he wanted them to swiftly pass a assault-weapon ban and limit magazines to 10 bullets."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2013/01/16/what-obama...
"If reprap-like machines with strong materials turn out to be cheap and easy, then never mind licensing handguns — we're going to have a problem with home-made crew-served weapons." - Charles Stross
The drivers of new technology aren't always wholesome.
Re:What the Maker Revolution Will Really Look Like
by NanoWar on Thursday January 17, 2013 @01:20PM
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Guns, really? My first thought was replacement parts...
Re:What the Maker Revolution Will Really Look Like
by jamieb on Thursday January 17, 2013 @08:27PM
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Called it. Front page HN today:
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/ny-congressman-i...
http://www.assaultweb.net/Forums/showthread.php?t=142405
"AR-15 30rd Magazine Dowloadable CAD Files"
Edit: Maybe I've been reading too much Charles Stross:
"Mind you, not everything that comes out of a rapid prototyper is good. Here's the Magpul FMG-9 prototype: and here's some more. Is it a flashlight? Is it a submachine gun? Who knows? Here's another baroque weapon that probably started life on a rapid prototyping machine. If reprap-like machines with strong materials turn out to be cheap and easy, then never mind licensing handguns — we're going to have a problem with home-made crew-served weapons. (Reminder: yr. hmbl. crspndnt. lives in a country where, for better or worse, possession of a pistol by anyone who's not in the police or military carries a mandatory 5-year minimum prison sentence. The implications of rapid prototyping machines for this sort of legislative environment probably parallel the effects of peer to peer networking on music industry cartels.)"
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2008/06/the_futu...