OK, you ban Semi-Autos, they start making them at home

[Mopar151]

24. Have you all been living under a bridge?

Long before 3-d printers existed, gun parts were made by "traditional" manufacturing techniques - casting, forging, andmachining.

Advances in machining have made casting and forging largely un-necessary for prototype and short-run work - I know, I have done this sort of work for 30+ years. Even detailed pictures to copy, or sketches by someone familiar with the gun (or suture inspection machines, or the machine that makes "Pictionary" boards) is enough for me to make one, given enough time and a couple machine tools that will fit in a gararge.

This is relevant to the discussion here - because an outright ban will simply serve to drive the whole mess underground. And besides, there are waayyy too many semi-autos and "bananna" clips in circulation to make a dent with seizures, without starting another "War ON" (say, Drugs, which has worked soo well 'til now....)

I think perhaps that we should look at reclassifying Semi-Autos capable of holding high-capacity clips (and the clips themselves) to a class which requires an FFL or similar, as machine guns are now. A "buyback" program for those unwilling to undergo a rigorus licensure program would be a fair thing to do.