The Endgame For Anti-3D Printed Gun Activists

By Tom Knighton

We get that people are all kinds of paranoid about 3D printed guns. I understand that some people will remain against the printed firearm for the remainder of their lives, often for no good reason. They just don’t like guns.

However, we see where the endgame for their activism will likely end up, and that’s a ban on even possessing the files.

In 2015 New South Wales amended its laws to outlaw the possession of digital blueprints for firearms and strengthen existing laws prohibiting the manufacture of weapons.

The technology has not yet advanced to allow the creation of a complete working weapon at the ‘press of a button’. However, the novelty plastic 3D-printed Liberator has served to distract from the more deadly parts-assembly hybrid models that home-made weapon tinkerers were creating.

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Criminals are often early adopters and exploiters of new technology, and crime typically follows opportunities. This means that as the costs and difficulties recede with rapid improvements in 3D printing, we can expect more criminal interest.

The handful of Australian cases already noted will steadily grow – driven not by a ‘right to bear arms’ ideology as in the US, but by the vagaries of firearm supply …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms