This is the same story we keep hearing over and over again. Cops hears about Defense Distributed’s Liberator, test it out for themselves, and watch as any last shred of hope of being able to control the proliferation of firearms disintegrates. It’s something that supporters of the Second Amendment are loving, but gives police state advocates nightmares. The latest example comes from the former prison colony of Australia . . .
From The Age:
From 16 parts it only took police 27 hours to build the guns. Despite the how-to guide being removed from the web earlier this month at the request of the US government, it has already been downloaded 100,000 times across the world and remains available on file-sharing networks.
“Make no mistake they will kill at both ends,” Mr Scipione said.
“It is an offence to make, an offence to possess and an offence to use,” he said.
Yeah, their gun blew up. But I get the distinct impression they wanted it to blow, and did everything in their power to make it do so. As they said in the article, everything about this gun is already illegal in Australia. But there’s not a single damned thing keeping every Aussie with a 3D printer from cranking them out 24/7. So the only thing they have left is fear, trying to scare Ozzies away from making them.
The Tarkin doctrine has never worked. The tighter your grip, the more star systems will fall through your fingers. But it isn’t going to keep them from trying.
As I have said before, the Liberator design is not the end-all, be-all of 3D printed firearms design. It’s just a baby step. The original design has already been modified and remixed for increased durability and reliability. But that’s not something that the older generation understands. But it’s just beginning to dawn on them that it represents the destruction of the last hurdle that’s keeping every person in the world from owning a gun. Maybe not this specific gun, but the designs that it will inspire.
Mikey really is a little King George wannabe… Will enough of these people wake up to stop the slime they’ve elected? I hope so but I’m not holding my breath…
I’m not holding my breath either–just my nose.
Comedy is hard.
The Aussie popo shouldn’t worry, law abiding Australians won’t print them out, just like law abiding citizens don’t illegally import or manufacture firearms now. Utopia is great as long as everyone is on board.
It’s kind of stunning when you think about it, but our solution to armed gangs is to just sanction one heavily equipped gang to try to become king of the hill.
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Ooohhh, you fanned her.
Yes, freak out over a single shot pistol. If they as police officers are that terrified of one of these, then its a miracle they go out there doors to work in the morning.
Wait till the hoplophobes see what our new drum major is using for a baton!
We should start sending a pair of knotted panties to every one of these hand wringers weeping about this evil technology.
So, they’re weeding out weed….
I really like the broader sweeping implications this has for statists/utopians in general. You can look past the obvious signs of it not working, but they’ve now met something they cannot control without being overtly totalitarian, and even then their chances of success in stopping distribution are near zero.
Most of us, including those who are anti gun know what would happen, but in many of the anti-gun people case they just don’t care. They have it in their mind guns are evil, only the overlords should have them, that we the people are too stupid and lack dexterity to even try to hold a firearm.
Got a problem? Call for government. Government doesn’t arrive in time or doesn’t want to help? Ask again, but this time more nicely. Want to vote someone out and they refuse to leave? Ask them nicely again. Corrupt police officer? Well tough cookies.
Anti-gunners remind me a bit of those who think vaccines cause autism. They don’t care about the facts, or the real dangers that are involved when people are denied/scared away from protection. They just want to feel good and defer personal responsibility. They fail to see the fail that is involved when government issues everything. Food, security, housing, and freedom all at a politicians whim.
How many gun grabbers does it take to change a light bulb?
Doesn’t matter, theyll just blame the burned out bulb on a gun and demand the government ban all guns. Meanwhile the light bulb remains burned out.
AR is the over all safer weapon; as long as there is good trigger control; it’s easier to hit your target at the ranges one would normally be using in self-defense scenarios than with a pistol or shot gun. Which translates to less rounds miising your target and hitting an innocent person down range.
Plus, there’s less over penetration when going through walls and doors since the .556/.233 tumbles and shatters much more quickly when hitting a barrier than a pistol bullet or a shot gun slug or pellet.
Awesome…
Didn’t RF do a post about a charity group trying to get shotguns to those in need of self defense?
Gun control? Nobodies heard of the guys in Pakistan making guns from scratch in shops with hand tools? 3d printers? Slamfire shotguns? Gun control is a dead issue supported by people too stupid to realize they’ve tied themselves to a corpse.
Did anyone else see Athony Bourdain in Libya? The tour of the rebel museum should be a lesson for this dweeb and any other gun grabber (Moff Tarkin). At the start of the rebellion, they had a ballista mounted to a truck…. A friggin giant crossbow! By the end of the war… Helicopter rocket launchers, heavy machine guns, and ack-ack guns.
I love how he had eye protection when cutting the gun up, but none when he actually shot it.
I have to admit being surprised that they made the receiver at the build party. Didn’t realize it was that easy. Question though- assuming you live in a free state, can one legally make a firearm like this without filing some sort of paperwork? I thought that it was a Federal issue to have a firearm without a serial number.
Sure you could make it, but if any cop ever inspected it and found no s/n, would thos be an issue?
Too bad she didn’t have a working knowledge of the defensive use of kitchen knives not to mention a quality firearm.
RepubAnon/The Liberal is right in a certain sense: when selfish assholes idolize rich scum who refuse to pay their taxes b/c they want an ever increasing rate of return on investment, certain morbid symptoms begin to appear.
heres the thing here in texas this state is not all red expecialy in that part of the state there this krispy kream was elected hispanics are traditionaly democrats and they turn that part of the state purple I use to have a link showing the different districts but i can’t find it on the web
What do you expect from the cheeky leftist statist descendants of felons?
I’d rather go the New Zealand than a dismal penal colony.