State Department Demands 3-D Gun Blueprints Be Removed

Re:State Department Demands 3-D Gun Blueprints Be Removed by angersock on Friday May 10, 2013 @12:26AM (#5684627)

"What happens when you can print a metal gun in your own home with some metal powder, with a machine purchased for less than $1K?"

What happens when I buy an eight-round Mossberg from the pawn shop for $250 dollars (that is like 8 Rasberry Pis!)?

Odds are, same outcome: it sits around doing nothing, because nearly nobody is murderer just itching for an easy way to do it.

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Re:State Department Demands 3-D Gun Blueprints Be Removed by toomuchtodo on Friday May 10, 2013 @12:39AM (#5684671)

I wasn't arguing that manufacturing tech turns people into murderers. I was arguing that the cost of rapid prototyping/manufacturing tech is dropping extremely rapidly, and to attempt to regulate it will be a fool's errand.

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