Gun Rights Hacktivists To Fab 3D-Printed Guns At State Capitol

giulioprisco writes On January 13th Come And Take Texas (CATI) will be manufacturing 3D-printed firearms on location at the State Capitol. In 2013 Defense Distributed made public the 3D printable files (STL files) for the world's first fully 3D printable gun. Their more recent Ghost Gunner is designed to automatically manufacture publicly created designs with nearly zero user interaction. According to CATI’s website, “In the last year and a half Texan Gun Rights Groups all around the Lone Star State have walked, assembled, and engaged in Humanitarian efforts all while Open Carrying their Long Guns and Black Powder Pistols. This has succeeded in Educating the Public as well as Law Enforcement, to show that the presence of Firearms in Public is not only Safe but Highly supported.”

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Re:Thanks, assholes

[AmiMoJo]

Times and technology change, the law has to be updated. The current rules seem to be based on the fact that few people have the ability or means to produce their own reliable and accurate firearms. As such the requirement that purchased weapons have a serial number and some traceability, as well as restrictions on who can buy them in some areas, was considered reasonable by law makers.

3D printers will allow anyone to print a reliable and somewhat accurate weapon cheaply one day. At the moment they are still expensive, but won't stay that way for long. As such, the law may need to change in order to maintain the status quo, or a decision will have to be made to accept that untraceable non-metal weapons in widespread ownership.

Re: Thanks, assholes

[Anonymous Coward]

Please count me among those people who believe that having guns and knives on airplanes ultimately does not make flying safer.

Assholes, indeed - NRA doesn't like them.

[Anonymous Coward]

The NRA has a problem with those kooks in Texas.

These kooks even try to intimidate people who may disagree with them.

And their premise that it is safe is wrong.

And as someone who goes to the shooting range(s) once in a while, I can tell that most of those folks seem to think that they are living an action movie. Aside from the few hunters and target/skeet shooters (me), the rest of them think the "bad guys" are just itching to break into their home, rape their women, take their big screen TVs and their Arnold, Steven Segal, Chuck Norris DVD collections. Those are the guys with the military styled guns on the range - with their fetish for .223 and .40. They are the ones who talk about "stopping power" and "penetration" and other ballistic shit.

We normal guys try to stay away from them and cringed when we see those redneck morons in Texas acting like jackasses.

Re:Assholes, indeed - NRA doesn't like them.

[CaptainDork]

This.

For those distanced from the rabid gun rights Open Carry in Texas, it's just what you'd stereotype: Urban male wannabe soldiers and their female admirers.

I have hunted all my life (to date) and plinked beer bottles and cans and stuff.

When I get to a camp where these assholes start talking about the right to carry guns to protect 'murika from the gubmint, I go over the edge.

Well, first I get the hell out of there when some duck dynasty weirdo tries to kill me when he puts a loaded rifle on the hood of his truck and it's pointing at me.

Gubmint? Do they not realize the gubmint got jet planes and flame throwers and guided fucking missles and grenades?

Did you see the Ferguson riots where the masses threw rocks? There were a very few incidents of gunfire here and there. Where were the fucking gun rights assholes?

The sons of bitches are all hat and no cattle.

This fight is intentional - printing guns is legal

[zerofoo]

Most gun control laws, as currently written, are unconstitutional. The reason they have stood for so long is either challenges were not brought, or the supremes refused to hear the case.

Heller and Peruta affirmed the individual right to bear arms for the purposes of individual self-defense as well as group defense . It is legal to manufacture firearms for personal use (and always has been). Licensing and serialization are only required if you choose to manufacture arms for sale to others.

The bottom line is that manufacturing your own weapons is legal - as per the ATF FAQ:

http://www.atf.gov/files/firea...

9. May I lawfully make a firearm for my own personal use, provided it is not being made for
resale?
Firearms may be lawfully made by persons who do not hold a manufacturer’s license under the GCA
provided they are not for sale or distribution and the maker is not prohibited from receiving or
possessing firearms. However, a person is prohibited from assembling a non-sporting semiautomatic
rifle or shotgun from 10 or more imported parts, as set forth in regulations in 27 C.F.R. 478.39. In
addition, the making of an NFA firearm requires a tax payment and advance approval by ATF. An
application to make a machinegun will not be approved unless documentation is submitted showing
that the firearm is being made for the official use of a Federal, State, or local government agency (18
U.S.C. 922(o),(r); 26 U.S.C. 5822; 27 C.F.R. 478.39, 479.62, and 479.105).

Currently there is a very pro-gun trend throughout the country. I do not see lawmakers stomaching any more gun-control any time soon. Personally, I would like to see many of our unconstitutional gun-control laws repealed or struck down by the courts.

Re: Thanks, assholes

[TheCarp]

Please explain why this is relevant. The 2nd explicitly states that is it because of the need for a militia that the right will not be infringed. I don't see where there is any requirement that gun bearers be members of the militia or that the militia itself even must exist, just that because of the need for one, the right wont be.

It is a clause in support of the declaration that the right will not be infringed, I see no dependency on it.