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MineralMan

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4. No, we should not be promoting more homemade firearms

Reply to Sheepshank (Reply #2)

Fri May 24, 2013, 09:37 AM

May 2013

on the street. There are plenty of plans to build homemade firearms on the Internet. All are available to anyone with a computer or tablet. All are dangerous. The printed guns are no different. Stupid people want homemade firearms. They'll make them, I suppose, one way or another.

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Zip guns are more dangerous and have been around forever NightWatcher May 2013 #1

So we should compound the problem by adding more misfiring weapons on the streets? Sheepshank May 2013 #2

No, we should not be promoting more homemade firearms MineralMan May 2013 #4

Zip guns have pretty much been illegal for a long, long time. MineralMan May 2013 #3

As a Publisher it's easy for me to see what's going on here. Nimajneb Nilknarf May 2013 #5