http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vosWsc15re4
Chucky Schumer’s not the only DC denizen freaking over Defense Distributed’s latest feat. Just as night follows day, another Big Apple big government type is up in (virtual) arms over the ability of regular Joes cranking out their own guns and wants to outlaw this latest technological abomination. Toward that end, Rep. Steve Israel is pushing an update to the Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act. And Congressnoids being what they are – generally clueless on most subjects under their purview – the NY Dem’s proposal is, as reason.com calls it, “about as enforceable as a ban on photocopying your own ass in your home office.” Here’s Rep. Israel’s statement of outrage and call to action . . .
Melville, NY—Today, following news of a working plastic gun made almost entirely on a 3D printer, Congressman Steve Israel (D-Huntington) renewed his call for passage of his recently-introduced Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act that extends the ban on plastic firearms and includes homemade, plastic high-capacity magazines and receivers. The existing ban on plastic guns expires this year and does not clearly cover these major components. On Friday, Defense Distributed, a group of homemade gun enthusiasts, premiered a plastic firearm with only one small necessary metal part, a single nail used as the firing pin.
Rep. Israel said, “Security checkpoints, background checks, and gun regulations will do little good if criminals can print plastic firearms at home and bring those firearms through metal detectors with no one the wiser. When I started talking about the issue of plastic firearms months ago, I was told the idea of a plastic gun is science-fiction. Now that this technology appears to be upon us, we need to act now to extend the ban on plastic firearms.”
The Defense Distributed project circumvents the current Undetectable Firearms Act by including an extraneous block of metal in the gun, making the firearm detectable by metal detector. However, those who wish to smuggle guns onto planes and into high security areas will soon be able to download the digital blueprints from Defense Distributed’s website and forgo the extraneous metal, producing guns completely undetectable by metal detector.
The revamped Undetectable Firearms Act that Rep. Israel wrote makes it illegal to manufacture, own, transport, buy, or sell any firearm, receiver, or magazine that is homemade and not detectable by metal detector and/or does not present an accurate image when put through an x-ray machine. The reauthorization would extend the life of the bill for another 10 years from the date of enactment.
If you get those buttons made, I’ll take a couple.
I love living in Indiana. Haters can hate but there are few simple pleasures in life as joyful as walking out back and popping off a few and neighbors either could care less or join in.
“I think that liberty in the end is a better interest.” – Cody Wilson
The new hero.
Maybe they will just force companies to put something like lead in the plastic that the 3D printers use…
Because THAT would solve everything!
China must be ahead of their time, they put lead in everything.
No! No lead in the plastic. If it saves one condor . . . .
If only ammunition were made of metal, then such a gun would be detectable…
They conveniently left out that the ammunition would be detectable in metal detectors…
My unit received mine warfare training during JOTC training in 1989. I remember to this day a chilling but enlightening statement. “Mine warfare is limited only by the human imagination and the materials available.” The instructor then explained how to make a booby trap with a bullet and a pointed rock. Years later, I was updating my platoon on the use of garage door openers in the construction of IEDs.
Our forefathers made some spectacular firearms with handtools. Sam Colt did not have a CNC machine. Controlling gun manufacture is at the jump-the-shark moment. You cannot control what can be done with a trip to Home Depot. There are too many existing guns and components that can be used as templates or bases for some really practical builds.
I dig this one: http://www.amazon.com/SOG-DarkEnergy-Tactical-Handheld-Flashlight/dp/B00750RCI6
It’s usually on me when I’m out past dark, or at least it’s in the car. It’s always handy in the house… lives on the night stand most of the time.
My kit is very similar to what you carry except I drop a ProTac 1L in my front left pocket below my wallet.
TO: Robert Farago
RE: What??!?!?!
You don’t have that ‘man purse’ on steroids you touted a while back? The Versipack by Optmod?
Works great for ME. I pack all you do along with my iPad and wireless keyboard as well as an asp and various pens/pencils/highlighters/laser pointer/temp and perm markers. Along with various meds.
I’m gonna add one of those perm glue-sticks to mark windows on illegally parked vehicle windshields. You know people who park in handicapped stalls when they display no tags.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[Be Prepared…..]
Related: be judicious about posting pictures of yourself holding guns on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc. After a shooting I personally would not want to see a related-story link to a crappy picture of me holding a rifle, though in this case at least there is good gun safety on display.
I carry a Mag-Lite LED XL50. Three settings: bright, not quite so bright, and freaking strobe. 20 something bucks from Lowe’s.
for EDC I like my Streamlight 2AAA – it’s lightweight and skinny enough that I can pocket carry it in jeans… I “tuck” it into the corner of the pocket and it stays out of the way. It’s not going to blind anyone in a defensive role, but it’s come in handy quite often for mundane tasks.
I’ve been carrying it for months now and it’s still running on the batteries it came with
I carry a Nebo Blueline because it’s inexpensive, relative to the above, has a wide/narrow beam adjustment and can be turned on and off with one hand. Never needed it to accompany weapons, but use it regularly to find things in dark cabinets, under the bed, under-lit staircases, cluttered rooms, etc. at construction sites, looking for dropped change, pens, phones, etc. in my car, discerning whether that’s a cat or a skunk during my pre-dawn walks, and the inevitable power failures that accompany spring storms in Kansas.
I concur with “In Memphis” and “Al Cohol” that for a flashlight you WILL always take with you, a good pen light with a Cree chip is hard to beat. I happen to carry this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Led-Lenser-880093-Keychain-Flashlight/dp/B007TQNGYA/
which seems comparable in features to the one they carry. I keep it clipped inside the front left pocket of whatever pants I’m wearing. I do have other, more powerful lights, and suitable holsters, when I really want to go all tacticool. But for true EDC, these little pen lights simply cannot be beat.
Streamlight Protac 2L http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00396S1Q2/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i03?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I’m in the cheap, but effective, flashlight camp. I love the TechLight LumenMaster lights and you can’t beat the price. They take 3 AAA batteries and last long enough. As a bonus, it fits in one of the pouches in the nylon double mag pouch that I carry.
http://www.amazon.com/Techlite-Master-High-Intensity-Tactical-Flashlight/dp/B0074D6PE6
Any speculation on how the popularity of those who’ve taken a hit for voting for liberty would have changed if they’d voted with Biden? Just because Flake has supposedly taken a hit doesn’t mean he’d not have taken a larger one if he’d voted the other way.
It’s hard to say, the polls ask if the respondent is less likely to vote for the candidate because they voted against background check legislation.
It doesn’t say the Manchin-Toomey amendment, nor does it say “legislation to ban almost all private party non-dealer firearm transfers as well as banning almost all handgun sales to persons under 21 even if they would otherwise be legal in the State”. Admittedly a bit long for a survey question, but still.
You have to wonder when the polling companies push misleading information like M-T being just a “background check” bill. Even politifact put out an article denying that the bill bans private party non-dealer firearm transfers.
I am tired of hearing people say ‘I have a right to be safe!’
It’s called the 2nd Amendment, Google it.
Why do politicians seem to get dumber every day? Hey congress/ senate/ house/ legislative branch wake the FUCK up we have other issues besides your failed methods of gun control… Just because the DOW is at a high doesn’t mean our economy is any better or our health care is any more affordable!
The 2A was not given because we did not have an army. Provision for an army (and a navy) is made elsewhere in the Constitution not in the Bill of Rights . . . And that was made several years before the Bill of Rights was adopted. The 2A was given because free men own weapons – slaves don’t. The 2A is there as a check and balance to the other powers in our government; the 2A exists to take out the army should the need arise.
His eensie-teensy audience is maybe 7,500 people. But I get your point, and see it, too.
The push is coming to shove. It appears the Ruling Class is prepared to break something they cannot fix. It works for them.
If you cannot defeat your enemy in the crucible of truth, there’s nothing left but a cauldron of hate.
If you’re calling the gun a “Liberator” then you should be splicing in footage of B24s rather B17s.
Just saying.
The comment thread for that editorial (at the paper’s website) is pretty funny.
Well, it wouldn’t be tloo hard to add rifling in a 3D modeling program before you printed it. And yes, it’s a very early attempt. That’s one great thing about the open source model. If any of you feel you can improve it, do so.
Streamlight Protac 2L.
Yes, carry every day. As a gunsmith, I’m constantly looking into small, deep holes. If you want to see what a barrel looks like, you’re going to need light on one end of the hole.
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Good God. Slow Joe is at it again. Who cares what the polls say, or what the majority says? If the majority said playing in traffic is a good idea, I’d tell them to shove off. Also, Robert, no one called anyone a terrorist. It wasn’t even implied. At least, not bin Laden terrorist.