Bill Maher Wades Into 3D-Printed Gun Debate On 'Real Time' - video link

[Tx4obama]

Last edited Sat May 11, 2013, 05:47 PM - Edit history (1)

VIDEO here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/11/bill-maher-3d-printers-guns-real-time_n_3259756.html

Bill Maher is still trying to wrap his brain around the incredible phenomenon that is the 3D printer, especially the unsettling news that the first 3D-printed gun has been fired.
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Additional article with video on link below

Maher, Greenwald & Joy Reid Battle Over Regulating 3-D Guns: They ‘Feed Dangerous NRA Fantasy’
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/maher-greenwald-joy-reid-battle-over-regulating-3-d-guns-they-feed-dangerous-nra-fantasy/

[lumberjack_jeff]

1. There's an element of ridiculousness to this hysteria.

OMG! A plastic gun!

If plastic were a sensible material from which to make firearms, it is a relatively simple matter for anyone with fairly basic workshop tools to do so. You don't need a 3-d printer to make a plastic gun. In fact, I'd bet that I could make a better plastic gun without a 3d printer. Meaning it would suck slightly less and be perhaps 10% less likely to injure the operator.

They did it because it was difficult. It posed a technological challenge for the medium.

The risk of anyone with mal-intent buying a $20,000 3d printer to build a gun which can be obtained for $300 at any gun show is remote.