Despite ruling on 3-D-printed guns, it remains legal to make your own gun at home

[Peter1469]

Despite ruling on 3-D-printed guns, it remains legal to make your own gun at home

It has always been legal to make your own guns. In recent US history laws have tightened that up some. People who cannot legally own guns cannot legally make their own. You cannot make a gun that cannot be detected in a metal detector. (Not really relevant for an airport since they don't use metal detectors- an all plastic gun can be found.)

And a clarification of 3D printing - the codes to create a gun are just that- codes. They print the components. It still takes considerable skill to tool the pieces and assemble it. This temporary restraining order will either be rescinded by this judge or later overturned on appeal.

Though a federal judge has temporarily blocked the dissemination of blueprints showing how to make guns using 3-D printers, it remains legal for people to make their own firearms at home without a license — a relatively rare practice but one that the government cannot fully monitor.

Federal law allows people who are not prohibited from owning firearms to manufacture them for personal use. Certain types of guns, including those with short barrels, require a tax payment and approval from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. A license is required to make guns for sale or distribution.


It is unclear how many DIY guns are made each year, because many of them are not registered and most parts do not carry serial numbers that would enable tracking.


Gun enthusiasts say making firearms at home is a hobby much like building a car engine, a way to learn about the intricacies and mechanisms of the machine rather than creating something for regular use. Gun-control advocates say the ability to make guns is a major legal loophole that could allow for people who cannot legally own a gun to circumvent a background check and get a firearm.

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[MMC]

In case you missed it, Americans are up against yet another imminent doomsday scenario. If you weren’t already killed off by the repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate, or by the Trump tax cuts, or by the repeal of net neutrality, or by Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, we’re now told that you will certainly be killed by 3-D printed firearms.


In 2013, Cody Wilson and an organization called Defense Distributed released plans for the first fully 3-D printable gun: The Liberator. The design was named after the eponymous sheet metal pistol that the Allies airdropped behind enemy lines during WWII to arm resistance fighters. That gun was crudely made and unreliable, but it was far more successful as a propaganda point. In Nazi-controlled France, where private gun ownership was illegal, anyone could secretly have a gun. Even worse, they could use that gun to get their hands on a better gun.

The Obama administration used an obscure regulation governing military arms exports to force the Liberator designs off the internet. They reasoned that sharing the blueprint to build a gun online, where it could be downloaded by anyone on earth, was just as dangerous as exporting a machine gun or missile launcher overseas. But the fact that not one Liberator has been used in a crime, despite being downloaded over 100,000 times, should tell you all you need to know about the “risk” these designs pose.


Right now, anyone can walk into a Home Depot or Lowe’s and spend $20 in the plumbing aisle to build their own that would put a Revolutionary musket to shame (both in accuracy and fire rate). Apparently, it wasn’t that hard for gun enthusiasts to figure out that a 12 gauge shotgun shell fits perfectly within a three-fourth inch pipe.


Take any elementary machining course at your local community college, and after just a few classes, you will come away with the knowledge needed to weld and rivet together your own WWII-era repeating firearm from a parts kit. Just to prove he could do it, one man even built an AK-47 out of a rusty shovel he bought at a garage sale for $2.


If you have a hand drill and an afternoon to kill, you can literally mill-out an untraceable AR-15 lower receiver by hand using nothing but online instructional videos for guidance. Or, you can spend a couple hundred dollars on a 3-D printer and have a plastic gun ready to fire in a matter of days. An American’s ability to build a firearm is limited only by his or her ingenuity, and we are an ingenious people.


The British Army tried to confiscate the colonists’ guns and failed. Today’s gun control advocates have already revealed they share the same endgame. When Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s assault weapon ban went into effect in 1994, she during a news interview that if she had the votes, she would have said “Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them all in.”


Now that the barriers to entry to build a firearm have all but disappeared, complete civilian disarmament is literally impossible. While the Founders never could have envisioned 3-D printing technologies, they understood the importance of being able to arm oneself. There is no right to keep and bear arms without a right to manufacture your own firearm, just as there is no First Amendment without the right to print a book or start your own religion.



Despite talking points to the contrary, there’s nothing to fear from 3-D printed guns. Criminals will continue to steal or illegally buy their crime guns, not build them out of plastic. Anyone truly bent on committing a crime with a plastic gun has already had the ability to do that for decades.


Any elected official who governs in the interests of the American people and preserves the Second Amendment’s protections has nothing to worry about an armed populace. Likewise, the fearmongering coming from the likes of Schumer should tell you all you need to know about his intentions.....snip~


http://thefederalist.com/2018/08/02/...merica-futile/



The Democrats and their Cult Following have failed.....again!

[Hoosier8]

This is what all the hoopla is about.

[Peter1469]

I think the left and the media, sorry to repeat myself, think that you hit a button on your 3D printer and out pops a gun.

[MMC]

I think the left and the media, sorry to repeat myself, think that you hit a button on your 3D printer and out pops a gun.

I am waiting to see what their response will be for popping out a female sex bot.