Annihilator (Gun Control Thread- NOT SHOOTINGS)

[Zetanio]

Also, China has a railgun on a boat already too.

[Zealot]

If China ever gets their hands on one of Japan's Gundams, may as well call it there, arms race over, we lost.

[dasva]

We'll just have to bioengineer some Kaiju at that point

[6souls]

We'll just have to bioengineer some Kaiju at that point

We don't exactly make the best environmentalists.

[Zetanio]

You think GOOD environmentalists would create Kaiju? Fam, we are gonna pollute our way to the BEST Kaiju, don't you worry.

[Zealot]

[dasva]

Yeah in what world is creating giant radioactive monsters something any environmentalist would do? Boy I'd be mad disappointed if ours didn't spit toxic sludge and acid and had blood that left permanent scars on the planet ala Pacific Rim. At that point it wont even matter if they can beat them still gunna fuck them up

[6souls]

It seems y'all have already forgotten the Godzilla sdcc trailer.

[dasva]

Never heard of it. Someone should've made a thread for it

[6souls]

Never heard of it. Someone should've made a thread for it

[Ksandra]

Welp, the beginning of the end of being able to regulate guns in any feasible way has begun:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...c-guns-n895906

There are plans out there to make 3d printed plastic guns that are functional.

Hard/impossible to be detected by metal detectors.

Once on the internet, forever on the internet.

And we know once tech is out there, people will find ways to improve on it.

I am at a complete loss on how we could ever regulate something like this.

[Zetanio]

Welp, the beginning of the end of being able to regulate guns in any feasible way has begun:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...c-guns-n895906

There are plans out there to make 3d printed plastic guns that are functional.

Hard/impossible to be detected by metal detectors.

Once on the internet, forever on the internet.

And we know once tech is out there, people will find ways to improve on it.

I am at a complete loss on how we could ever regulate something like this.

Are you just learning about this?

[Ksandra]

yes. It's on the news because Trump responded to it.

[Zetanio]

This has been a thing for quite awhile. Pretty much since the day after 3D printing started existing.

[Ksandra]

Article was posted today referencing how the guy started giving out plans this past weekend. So...I am late because it's Tuesday, not Monday?

Cody Wilson of Austin began posting the directions over the weekend.

[Zetanio]

https://www.wired.com/2014/10/cody-wilson-ghost-gunner/

He posted the Liberator online in 2013 as well.

[zoobernut]

The reason it is coming back into the news now is that it was explicitly stated that this was not against the law and states could not block the distribution of the plans. Or something along those lines.

[Ksandra]

https://www.wired.com/2014/10/cody-wilson-ghost-gunner/

He posted the Liberator online in 2013 as well.

That's not the plastic gun from the article. It looks like those still had metal parts in them. Also says nothing about sharing his plans online.

[Ksandra]

The reason it is coming back into the news now is that it was explicitly stated that this was not against the law and states could not block the distribution of the plans. Or something along those lines.

So it brings back to my initial point. How is it possible to regulate these in any meaningful way?

This idea of having stronger gun regulation is going to be largely ineffective.

I am not arguing that we shouldn't have regulations, btw. Just that this is going to make any job of enforcing those regulations that much harder.

[Ragnus]

Welp, the beginning of the end of being able to regulate guns in any feasible way has begun:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...c-guns-n895906

There are plans out there to make 3d printed plastic guns that are functional.

Hard/impossible to be detected by metal detectors.

Once on the internet, forever on the internet.

And we know once tech is out there, people will find ways to improve on it.

I am at a complete loss on how we could ever regulate something like this.

You'll see way more clear bag policies and metal detectors put in place if the opposition is shot down. Sneaking those guns into venues will still be an issue for people because bullets are still made of metal. I don't think that polymer will be strong enough to be a casing anytime soon despite polymer bullets being a thing now. At that point they would probably have sniffing dogs to detect the gun powder.

The one that concerned me more are the instructions that Wilson made which automatically mills out functioning metal AR lowers and 1911 handguns if you have the right equipment.

So it brings back to my initial point. How is it possible to regulate these in any meaningful way?

This idea of having stronger gun regulation is going to be largely ineffective.

I am not arguing that we shouldn't have regulations, btw. Just that this is going to make any job of enforcing those regulations that much harder.

Unfortunately even a national gun registry would do nothing. There's standing law that says you can make your own guns and that you don't need serial numbers. You just can't sell them to anyone. Hell, I just watched a Youtube video the other night where a guy melted down about 1300 casings into an ingot and milled an AR-10 lower out of it. The only avenue that I could see is bullet control becoming way more of a thing.