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Fumesucker

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4. After a few hundred people blow their fingers off and/or blind themselves with these things

Reply to ellisonz (Original post)

Sun May 12, 2013, 07:12 AM

May 2013

They'll become a lot less popular, particularly since there will be video on Youtube of more than a few incidents happening.

A plastic gun would be even easier to make with hand tools than a metal one and people have been making metal guns with hand tools for hundreds of years.

It's not like the country isn't already awash in handguns, I could buy one off Craigslist today if I wanted to, "home defense items", "things that go bang", "long range paper puncher" are all terms I see on Craigslist on a regular basis.

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Maher, Greenwald & Joy Reid Battle Over Regulating 3-D Guns: They �Feed Dangerous NRA �Fantasy� [View all] ellisonz May 2013 OP

ditto... hlthe2b May 2013 #1

And of course Greenwald wants people to make their own 3D guns. DevonRex May 2013 #2

The real cost to freedom is letting people terrorize society with these things... ellisonz May 2013 #3

The bullet would be harder to smuggle.... Junkdrawer May 2013 #5

After a few hundred people blow their fingers off and/or blind themselves with these things Fumesucker May 2013 #4

If you can 3D print a gun at home, you're welcome to shoot me with it Junkdrawer May 2013 #6