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jberryhill

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19. I have no issue with you

Reply to NYC_SKP (Reply #18)

Thu May 9, 2013, 03:06 PM

May 2013

What I have an issue with is this notion that the ability for people to do something at home, through some kind of magic, renders laws against doing whatever it is to be of no point.

If you would like "digital information" instructing you on how to make things which are illegal for you to make, then you can head over to www.uspto.gov and there you will find, literally, millions of patents describing how to make everything from bazookas to LSD.

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Meet The 'Liberator': Test-Firing The World's First Fully 3D-Printed Gun [View all] struggle4progress May 2013 OP

Not sure if it's the 3-D printing or the plastic part of this story that's so interesting. NYC_SKP May 2013 #1

It's not clear that the firing pin alone would set off many metal detectors: apparently these folk struggle4progress May 2013 #3

I remember reading about that in another article. NYC_SKP May 2013 #5

"challenge to existing gun legislation" jberryhill May 2013 #4

That's the RW spin....... rdharma May 2013 #6

I've been trying to understand this for a while jberryhill May 2013 #7

The folk behind this are all pushing exactly such RW views struggle4progress May 2013 #9

If it sounds scary, the RW will run with it! eom rdharma May 2013 #11

I'm not sure what your point is, but new laws limit sales of ephedrine. NYC_SKP May 2013 #12

Yes, and drug companies legally make drugs too jberryhill May 2013 #14

The creator of the design, IIRC, has a Type 7 Federal Firearms License to Manufacture. NYC_SKP May 2013 #15

How about reading what you are responding to? jberryhill May 2013 #17

Thanks in advance for never calling me Skip again. NYC_SKP May 2013 #18

I have no issue with you jberryhill May 2013 #19

Put a different way... NYC_SKP May 2013 #20

I doubt any legislative response is likely jberryhill May 2013 #21

This is abuse of the word 'fully'. The firing pin wasn't 3D printed. n/t PoliticAverse May 2013 #2

IMO, the word Libertarian should invariably be followed by 'crackpot'. denverbill May 2013 #8

Libertarians are Republicans who smoke pot..... rdharma May 2013 #10

No problem at all with this. Daemonaquila May 2013 #13

That is, I think, one of Cody Wilson's points in doing this. NYC_SKP May 2013 #16