“Significant advances in three-dimensional (3D) printing capabilities, availability of free digital 3D printer files for firearms components, and difficulty regulating file sharing may present public safety risks from unqualified gun seekers who obtain or manufacture 3D printed guns.” That’s the warning in a May 21 bulletin distributed to numerous state and federal law enforcement agencies by the Department of Homeland Security’s Joint Regional Intelligence Center, as revealed by foxnews.com. Unqualified? Defined by who, exactly? Anyway, the DHS is Chicken Little-ing Cody Wilson’s DefCad 3-D printable gun by trotting-out ye olde undetectable plastic gun schtick. In a section called “Liberator design poses Public Safety Risks,” the bulletin explains . . .
“Magnetometers may fail to detect the Liberator, depending on device sensitivity. Though it is prohibited by federal law, manufacturers may deliberately omit the unnecessary metal insert, leaving only a small nail and ammunition as the sole metal component. Future designs could further reduce or eliminate metal entirely.
“Unqualified gun seekers may be able to acquire or manufacture their own Liberators with no background checks.”
I think they mean “without any.” And here’s news: the Department of Homeland Security memo admits you can’t stop the signal.
“Proposed legislation to ban 3D printing of weapons may deter, but cannot completely prevent their production,” the memo says. “Even if the practice is prohibited by new legislation, online distribution of these digital files will be as difficult to control as any other illegally traded music, movie or software files.”
Which means . . . more secret government surveillance? Count on it. Meanwhile, again, I’d like to point out that “unqualified gun seekers” (UGS) have no problem obtaining firearms at the moment. As far as terrorists smuggling guns through current security devices, I guess our guardians will have to be more thorough and, perhaps, consider the person rather than the thing.
Great write up!!!!
CA pols can FOAD!
Ive been carrying one daily for a year and a half or two years now in my front pocket. Holstered of course.
Tried the LCP but the TCP just felt better in my hand.
Have maybe 2,000 rounds though it without a catch.
Gets mighty filthy in my pocket and even packed with lint and crap around the hammer it still goes bang every time.
it’s almost like once they arrive at their political job, they take full leave of their senses. Then they wonder why every day citizens hate them…
I understand that law-abiding persons who make these things may include the required chunk of metal and jump through other regulatory hoops, but as noted above it is entirely possible to skip the unnecessary metal piece. Can anyone tell me why, if you happen to be less concerned about legality, you could not insert a metal barrel made from scratch into the receiver section of a Liberator? As long as you are not trying to smuggle this past any security device, why would this not work?
“This was a waste of . . . EPA resources spent in having to defend a baseless lawsuit.”
Having dealt with the nutballs at the EPA, I don’t see a downside to wasting their resources.
“Center for Biological Diversity”–I love it.
Is it just me, or is it getting easier to spot BS Liberal “think”tanks?
We should start the Kinetic Energy Children’s Defense Policy Resarch Institute.
Either that or the Citizens’ League for Diversity in Protection
FTW. Imagine how many lib progressives would latch onto this just based on the name alone.
Because the Feds have significantly over-reached time and time again, at least four SCOTUS judges want to give the Commerce Clause a new look. They are constrained by stare decisis, but showed in United States v. Lopez that they don’t like the status quo.
Will it overrule Wickard v. Filburn? Probably not. Until it does, we are all slaves to the Feds.
Dude, your actual shooting score wasn’t important. Once you got placed with Ladies of the Gun, you won.
“Loon Association of Washington”…
says it all
If by “unqualied” they mean felons, they break the law regardless of how, providing they did, by any means.
This is no different than if they wish to invest in a cnc mill, learn how to use it, & make firearm components…
If they did then wouldn’t they be learning a trade srrvice? I think that right there “disqualifies” many from doing so simply because that would be perceived as “work”… otherwise their skikks coukd aactually contribute to society…
Since we are talking about breaking the law anyway, its alot easier to just pop a cop car trunk and help yourself to a full auto M4 than go to all this 3D trouble.
Google “AR15 stolen from cop car” if you think this doesnt occur.
In London cars and butcher knives seem to be pretty effective against the disarmed.
I agree with Nutnfancy – The .380 sucks.
When this all started I was biased against Zimmerman, but now I believe that while he was a stupid mall ninja for following Martin, he probably did get brutally attacked by a typical violent criminal macho punk teenager.
Eric Holder goose steps past Congress over Fast & Furious.